New Hampshire NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Program 2015-2018

The strategic goal of the NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, Research Infrastructure Development (EPSCoR RID) project in New Hampshire is to support promising academic research enterprises within the State that are directed toward generating or enhancing long-term, self-sustaining, nationally-competitive capabilities in areas of strategic importance to the NASA mission and of mutual benefit to the research infrastructure in New Hampshire. There are two research universities in New Hampshire that have master’s and doctoral degree programs in NASA-related disciplines, encompassing both theoretical and experimental research areas. The two universities have an overlapping interest in the development of CubeSat instrumentation, but there are also research infrastructure capability enhancement projects that are of interest uniquely to each institution. In particular, the University of New Hampshire proposes a new project element in this RID to expand its research priorities to include other NASA-related disciplines, while Dartmouth College proposes to create a new project element with emphasis on mission planning for CubeSat Swarms.

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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