NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
Phase I Award
Amount: $125,000
Dynamic Orbital Slingshot for Rendezvous with Interstellar Objects
Richard Linares
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Grand Challenge of Visiting an Interstellar Object: The study of asteroids and comets has revealed a treasure trove of information about the formation and history of our solar system.
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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program has made the following awards for 2020.
Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay
Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far-Side of the Moon
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
John Christian
StarNAV: An Architecture for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation by the Relativistic Perturbation of Starlight
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
