National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Partnership Opportunities at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Indrani Graczyk Commercial Programs Office NASA JPL JPL is a part of NASA and Caltech
• NASA Research and • 167 acre site with 1.5M Net Development Center (FFRDC) Square Feet Office and Lab Space • University Operated (Caltech) • 139 Buildings; 36 Trailers • $2.4B Business Base • 6000 Employees JPL’s Mission for NASA Robotic Space Exploration for NASA Science
Mars • Solar system • Exoplanets • Astrophysics • Earth Science • Interplanetary network 23 Spacecraft and 9 Instruments Across the Solar System and Beyond
Two Voyagers (1977) QuikSCAT (1999) Mars Odyssey (2001) Jason 2 (2008) Opportunity (2003) Spitzer (2003) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005)
CloudSat (2006) Dawn (2007) NEOWISE (2009) Juno (2011) Curiosity (2011) NuSTAR (2012) OCO-3 (2014) SMAP (2015)
Jason 3 (2016) InSight (2018) MarCO (2018) RainCube (2018) GRACE-FO (2018)
Instruments
Earth Science Planetary Astrophysics • MISR (1999) • AIRS (2002) • TES (2004) • MLS (2004) • ASTER (2009) • OPALS (2014) • ECOSTRESS (2018) • MARSIS (2003) • CAL (2018)
4 End-to-End Capabilities to Implement Missions
Mission Design Technology Project Formulation Development
Payloads Start Here
Scientific Research
Platforms Real Time Operations Spacecraft Development Testing Integration Spinoffs of JPL Technology
Mobile Devices
Aerospace Manufacturing
Healthcare
Security Energy
Education
IT / Computing Cameras Disaster Response
FINDER – Finding Individuals in Disaster and Emergency Response FINDER in Action Safer Operations Surgical Tools Robotics at JPL Robosimian in action Advanced Materials
Metallic Structures Software and Data Analytics
Data Visualization Opportunities – Deployable Antennas
• A new all-metal dual-frequency high gain antenna is under development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the potential Europa Lander mission. • The antenna is mainly made of metal to survive the harsh environment conditions (i.e. very low temperature and high radiation and ESD levels). • The antenna is also flat to meet drastic volume constraints and has efficiencies Lander Configuration higher than 80% at both the uplink and pictured above downlink 8 GHz Deep Space frequency bands. The design has heritage from JUNO and SMAP • This antenna is a key component to the mission enabling Direct Link to Earth Deployment already (DTE) from the lander without any relay. demonstrated • Antenna efficiency: 80% Opportunities – Electric Propulsion
• Hall thrusters typically suffer from wall erosion due to plasma bombardment • Walls need to be made of special materials to deter erosion, but these materials are expensive and fragile • A new configuration of a miniature hall thruster developed at JPL provides magnetic shielding that increases the The H6MS Hall thruster lifetime and durability of Hall Thrusters installed in a vacuum chamber at JPL prior to the first • The new configuration both eliminates demonstration of magnetic both mass and complexity, and shielding at 3,000 seconds therefore greatly reduces cost specific impulse. Opportunities – Optical Communications
• JPL has developed multiple advances in optical systems for deep space communications • OmniTera will allow terabit per second data transfer rates in any direction • Data rates are 3-4 orders of magnitude higher than any current data transfer technology • Each transceiver is composed of an array of lasers and dectectors working at OmniTerra Concept for distinct wavelengths Configuration of Transceivers How JPL Transfers Technology to Industry JPL Technical Innovator is Central to the Process
• Entrepreneurial JPL innovators: • Develop cross-cutting technologies • Seek opportunities to transfer technology • Partner with industry to advance technology for commercial applications
• Office of Technology Transfer at JPL supports innovators by facilitating: • IP protections, patents, copyrights • IP agreements, licenses, joint ownership
• Commercial Program Office and NASA Management Office at JPL facilitate: • Space Act Agreements (SAAs) for collaborations to mature technologies For more Information…
Indrani Graczyk Commercial Program Office at JPL
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