NASA once again to please all interested in space for its innovative projects. Agency showed 7 most promising projects of the future kosmonavtiki.Sredi prodemonstrirovanyh many ideas look fantastic and at least unrealistic, but NASA experts claim that the future of world cosmonautics, writes “Gazeta.ru,«.
NASA experts showed their latest projects and developments, which make a breakthrough in future space exploration missions and development planet.Pokaz held during the exhibition NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), whose mission to give a chance to everyone to surprise the world with his own. sometimes just fantastic development.
During the first phase of the program contestants were required to demonstrate the feasibility of their ideas and the benefits that can bring these concepts in space. So it was selected 15 projects, some of which were scientifically practical, some – beyond fiction.
So, the idea to send to Jupiter’s moon Europa robot squid had to be abandoned as the proposal to melt asteroids a laser beam.
The financing, which developers can get in the second phase, up to $ 500 thousand. for two years, and applicants are encouraged to optimize their decisions and apply new technologies. Each of the selected concepts in the early stage of development and requires a minimum of 10 years to bring to mind and applicability in real missions.
A flock of gravity satellite
The Institute Johns Hopkins has offered to investigate the distribution of mass below the surface of the small bodies of the solar system without sending it to the orbital or landers.
Tracking movement of each of them, scientists can estimate the internal structure of the body under study, and its density. This approach offers a simpler and cheaper equivalent of a long and pre-planned study of individual bodies by repeated their detour Orbiter.
The photocatalytic oxygen generator
The University of California at Santa Kruse offered as to generate oxygen in space using sunlight and without the use of heat or electricity. The oscillator circuit based on using the UV portion of the solar light and chemical reaction catalysts based on titanium oxide.
The proposed concept promises an order greater productivity and efficiency in the generation of air compared with existing installations.
optical Subsurface “podsmotrschik»
The company Nosanov Consulting Jeffrey Nosanova of Maryland has proposed a draft device allowing to look in lunar craters and caves with a low lunar orbit without dropping a satellite of the Earth.
To do this, a low-flying unit irradiates the laser pulses of the lunar surface and captures the photons repeatedly reflected against interior of the Moon.
The processing of these signals in the world will create a more accurate map of the satellite of our planet.
Ice Boat for Titan
Research Center named John Glenn offered to explore the Kraken Mare – the largest hydrocarbon lakes on the 
Storage of chemical energy
University of Pennsylvania proposed the use of chemical energy storage devices that have long been used in marine torpedoes in space missions. The drive offered by developers, designed to work on Venus, it can be used both on the orbiter and the lander.
Moon Transformers mirror
Laboratory NASA’s Jet Propulsion proposed to use during the development of the Moon Transformers robots capable of reflect sunlight to power the rovers exploring the surface of the unexposed areas.
To do this, left, for example, on the edge of the crater reflector tracks the path of the Lunokhod on the bottom of the crater, sending him the mirror reflected beam of light.
Sunny elektroparus
The main advantage of this method of movement – its speed. According to specialists, the mover is able to bring the spacecraft to the edge of the solar system in just 10 years.
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