Five crazy cosmic ideas get funded by NASA - VIDEO Scientists of the American space agency NASA selected five main crazy ideas for space exploration, which will be funded by NASA in the future within the framework of NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program):
1 Deep mapping asteroids in the solar system with the help of cosmic rays and secondary particles.
According to Thomas Prettimen (Thomas H. Prettyman) from the Institute of Planetary Sciences, USA elementary particles can be used to study the internal structure of asteroids and comets that pass close to the Earth, which will provide data on the presence of minerals on them.
2 Orbital Rainbow Phase II.
This technology Kuadrelli Marco (Marco Quadrelli) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA will make it possible to obtain images of distant cosmic objects with high resolution, using the orbital cloud of dust, which is used as a huge lens.
3: Create a hybrid spacecraft and rovers to study asteroids and comets in the solar system.
Size hybrid vehicles will be only 1 cm to 1 m, and they will use flywheels for movement on the surface of asteroids and comets.
4 The ten sub-orbital telescope, located in a balloon.
Technology professor Christopher Walker (Christopher Walker) from the University of Arizona is to make an inflatable reflector telescope aerostat, with which you can make observations from the stratosphere.
5 low-mass planar photonic image sensor.
Ben Yeo (Ben Yoo) from the University of California at Davis wants to create an image sensor of the millions of collinear light interferometers mounted on photonic integrated circuits, VIDEO:
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