Advanced Survivable Thermal Control Material Systems for Aggressive Planetary Dusty Environments

Completed TRL 3 (started at 1, targeting 3)

Description

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Benefits

NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) missions can greatly benefit from this dust mitigation thermal coating technology: all lunar-relating project - Power and Thermal Bus Sub Systems, and all projects involved with robotic science rovers and landers.

The Technology Developed can be useful for: Survivable Thermal Control Material Systems, Films & Adhesives that are hardened for the upper atmospheric man made or natural Nuclear Event Solar Storms and GEO, MEO & LEO survivable Products that can employ electron on demand strategies in products like: Hardened Thin Film Products, Wiring harnesses, Balloons

Details

Technology area	Thermal Management Systems > Thermal Control Components and Systems > Heat Rejection and Storage
Program	Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
Lead organization	Applied Material Systems Engineering, Inc. (AMSENG), Schaumburg, IL
Start date	2020-08-31
End date	2021-03-01

Project contacts

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Joseph Famiglietti — joseph.famiglietti-1@nasa.gov
Mark Hasegawa — Mark.M.Hasegawa@nasa.gov
Mark M Hasegawa — mark.m.hasegawa@nasa.gov
Mukund S Deshpande

How to get involved

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