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 |  | Teams To Vie For NASA Technology Mission
By Stew Magnuson
Spacenews.com Staff Writer
posted: 01:46 pm ET
01 February 2001
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WASHINGTON — NASA has selected eight teams from the private sector, universities and its own research centers to develop new technology for remote sensing satellites and other science missions, according to a Feb
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected eight teams from the private sector, universities and its own research centers to develop new technology for remote sensing satellites and other science missions, according to a Feb. 1 NASA statement.
Of the eight teams, five ultimately will be selected for flight in 2003 or 2004 aboard Space Technology 6, a NASA New Millennium Program project. The proposals will now evaluated further by NASA, and the final selections will be made by an independent review board in August.
The New Millennium Program, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, aims to advance state-of-the-art in spacecraft technology through relatively low-cost science missions.
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"The program’s objective is to validate technologies that are required for future science missions in space, not in a laboratory on Earth," Fuk Li, program manager of the New Millennium Program said in the statement.
"The program taps into the nation’s best industrial and academic technology resources," Li added.
The technologies and teams are:
- Lightweight High-Voltage Stretched-Lens Concentrator Solar Array Experiment -- AEC-Able Engineering Co. Inc., Goleta, California;
- Dual Reflector Telescope Experiment --
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Missiles and Space Operations, Sunnyvale, California;
Ultra-Low Power Serial Bus -- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland;
Low-Power Avionics Sensor Suite -- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing for Space-to-Space Interplanetary Optical Communications -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado;
Flight Validation of Autonomous Rendezvous in Low Earth Orbit -- Scientific Systems Co. Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts;
Autonomous Sciencecraft Constellation -- JPL;
Continuously Operating Helium Dilution Cooler for Space Applications -- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
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