| A Miniature INMS for VLEO satellites |
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Field and Particle Detectors |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Cloud-based XR for Rapid EXperience (CYREX) |
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Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Readout Development for the HEPSTER Instrument to fill a Critical SWx Measurement Gap |
Active
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Electronics |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| autoNGC CAPSTONE Flight Experiment Completion |
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Other Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| In-Situ Ice Plume and Dust Detector Validation for Moon to Mars |
Active
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Field and Particle Detectors |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Dual-Wavelength Small All-range Lidar for Navigation and Water Ice Detection |
Active
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Lasers |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| (GCA-4 with Noblis): Knowledge Mesh for Open Discovery and Access of Geospatial and Natural Language Data |
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Goddard Space Flight Center |
| (GCA-5 with Noblis): Earned Trust Framework for Ad Hoc Multi-Agent Autonomous Machine Team Orchestration |
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Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Mars Scoreboards for Space Weather Nowcasts and Forecasts |
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Science Modeling |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Plasma Emission Spectroscopy for Planetary Geochemistry, Enabled by Robotic Arm-Mounted Laser Ablation Sampling |
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Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| WATCH: Wearable Astronaut Tribocharge Hazard monitor |
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Field and Particle Detectors |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Advanced Electric Field/Langmuir Probe System for Measuring DC/AC Electric Fields, Dust and Debris Impacts, Lightning Sferics and Transmitters, and Sheaths and Spacecraft Potential in Very Low Earth Orbit environments (VLEO) |
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Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| R5 Program Flight Demo of COMLINC (R5) |
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Optical Communications |
Johnson Space Center |
| Radiation Biomarker Detection in Breath |
Active
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Ames Research Center |
| Enabling a high-contrast imaging testbed for Habitable Worlds Observatory |
Active
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Optical Components |
Ames Research Center |
| FY26 ARIA: Multi-Analyte Prediction of Bone Fracture |
Active
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Ames Research Center |
| TABS: Transfer-line Acoustic Bubble Sensing |
Active
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In-Space Propellant Storage and Use |
Ames Research Center |
| FY26 IRAD : Detection and Characterization of Single Mag-EC ELISAConstructs for Ultra-Low LOD Life Detection (ARIA) |
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Ames Research Center |
| Enabling Automated Production of Near-Net Shape Felted TPS up to 2m Scale |
Active
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Entry, Descent, and Landing |
Ames Research Center |
| CoOptiSense – Cooperative Optimized Sensor Fusion for Next-Gen Rover Navigation |
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Robot Navigation and Path Planning |
Ames Research Center |
| LuxBio: Light-based biological sensing and control for automated deep-space experimentation |
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Prevention and Countermeasures |
Ames Research Center |
| Efficient Learning for Control of Autonomous Mobility in Navigating Obstacles (EL-CAMINO (EL-CAMINO) |
Active
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Robot Navigation and Path Planning |
Ames Research Center |
| Feasibility of Earth-Based Testing for Mars Rotorcraft Dynamics |
Active
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Flight Performance and Analysis |
Ames Research Center |
| AIR (Ames Infrared) Imager Maturation |
Active
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Optical Components |
Ames Research Center |
| IMPedance Analysis & Certification Technnology (IMPACT) |
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Entry, Descent, and Landing |
Ames Research Center |
| High Lift Rotor Blades for Mars Helicopters (High Solidity) |
Active
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Above-Surface Mobility |
Ames Research Center |
| Improved Efficiency Quantum-Enhanced Very Long Baseline Interferometry Telescopes |
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Quantum Computer |
Ames Research Center |
| (GCA-1 with L3Harris): Lunar and Martian Regolith Testing of Antenna Systems and Associated Mechanisms |
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Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Development of a COMPact Space weather Sensor payload (COMPASS) |
Active
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In Situ Instruments and Sensors |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Volatile Release from Mars/Lunar Regolith by Mechanical Agitation |
Active
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Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation |
Kennedy Space Center |
| Real-Time Signal Integrity Monitoring |
Active
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Intelligent Data Understanding |
Stennis Space Center |
| Joint Observations Integrated Network : Modular software components to support the DOME's multi-mission data processing needs (JOIN) |
Active
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Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Crew Health And Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 |
Active
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Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems |
Johnson Space Center |
| Pharmacy (Pharm) |
Completed
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Johnson Space Center |
| Mars Portable Life Support System Testbed (PLSS Testbed) |
Active
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Portable Life Support System |
Johnson Space Center |
| 4D Adaptive Sensing: Optimizing Sensor Deployment for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Under Resource Constraints |
Active
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2 |
Object, Event, and Activity Recognition |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Achieving Unprecedented Precision in Origami-based Deployable Space Systems |
Active
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Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces |
Brigham Young University-Provo |
| Adaptive Radiative Thermal Management with Solid-State Phase-Change Metamaterials |
Active
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Heat Rejection and Storage |
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Adaptive World Models for Space Robotics: Implicit Representations Grounded in Semantics and Physics |
Active
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Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL |
Stanford University |
| Additive Manufacturing at the Nanoscale for Microfluidic Space Applications |
Active
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Electrostatic Propulsion |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Advancing Further the State of the Art of Fluid-Structure Interaction for Supersonic Parachute Inflation Dynamics |
Active
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2 |
Aerodynamic Decelerators |
Stanford University |
| Algorithmic Venous Gas Emboli Detection and Diagnostics for Wearable Ultrasound |
Active
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2 |
Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
University of Colorado Boulder |
| Autonomous Fault Detection, Recovery, and Avoidance during Robotic In-Space Assembly |
Active
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2 |
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis |
University of Southern California |
| Spacesuit Fit & Injury Technologies (SFIT) |
Completed
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3 |
Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems |
Johnson Space Center |
| Combining Optimal and Learning-Based Control Methods for the Manipulation of Spaceborne Objects |
Active
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Surface Mobility |
Stanford University |
| Crew Health and Performance EVA Simulation Development (EVA Sim Dev) |
Completed
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4 |
Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems |
Johnson Space Center |
| Debris to Infrastructure: Salvage Characterization and Recovered Metals Processing in Lunar Gravity |
Active
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2 |
Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables |
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Detection of Extraterrestrial Life using Microfluidic Hyperpolarized Enhanced NV-NMR |
Active
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2 |
Detectors and Focal Planes |
University of Maryland-College Park |
| Development and validation of a ground-based spacecraft docking simulator with vestibular perturbations |
Active
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2 |
Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Texas A & M University-College Station |
| Development of a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster without Pole Erosion |
Active
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Electrostatic Propulsion |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |