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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Partnership Opportunities at NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryIndrani GraczykCommercial Programs OfficeNASA JPL
JPL is a part of NASA and Caltech
• NASA Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
• University Operated (Caltech)
• $2.4B Business Base
• 167 acre site with 1.5M Net Square Feet Office and Lab Space
• 139 Buildings; 36 Trailers
• 6000 Employees
JPL’s Mission for NASARobotic 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
Instruments
• MISR (1999) • AIRS (2002) • TES (2004) • MLS (2004) • ASTER (2009) • OPALS (2014) • MARSIS (2003)
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)
Jason 3 (2016)
SMAP (2015)
Earth Science Planetary
4
InSight (2018) MarCO (2018) GRACE-FO (2018)
• CAL (2018)Astrophysics
RainCube (2018)
• ECOSTRESS (2018)
End-to-End Capabilities to Implement Missions
Project Formulation
Mission Design
Spacecraft Development
Real Time Operations
IntegrationTesting
Platforms
Payloads
Scientific Research
Technology Development
Start Here
Spinoffs of JPL Technology
IT / Computing
Healthcare
Security Energy
Manufacturing
Education
Aerospace
Mobile Devices
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 MaterialsMetallic 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 higher than 80% at both the uplink and downlink 8 GHz Deep Space frequency bands.
• This antenna is a key component to the mission enabling Direct Link to Earth (DTE) from the lander without any relay.
• Antenna efficiency: 80%
Lander Configuration pictured above
The design has heritage from JUNO and SMAP
Deployment already demonstrated
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 lifetime and durability of Hall Thrusters
• The new configuration both eliminates both mass and complexity, and therefore greatly reduces cost
The H6MS Hall thruster installed in a vacuum chamber
at JPL prior to the first demonstration of magnetic shielding at 3,000 seconds
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 distinct wavelengths
OmniTerra Concept for Configuration of
Transceivers
How JPL Transfers Technology to Industry
• 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
JPL Technical Innovator is Central to the Process
For more Information…
Indrani GraczykCommercial Program Office at JPL
[email protected]@jpl.caltech.edu
Office – (818) 354-2241Cell – (818) 298-5034