3 Bizarre Projects That Could Transform Exploration | NIAC 2019

Every amazing mission you know about today started off as just an idea, and some of 2019’s early phase NIAC concepts could mean big things for our future.

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Sources:

NIAC
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/NIAC_funded_studies.html
https://www.nasa.gov/content/apply-to-niac
https://www.nasa.gov/content/niac-overview

Venus Flier
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/breeze/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_22.html
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20171208-case-for-venus.html
http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/missions-to-venus-mercury.html
http://engineering.buffalo.edu/mechanical-aerospace/people/faculty/j-bayandor.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/locomotion/Gravitational-gliding

Micro-probes
https://www.statler.wvu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/yu-gu
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/MP4AE/
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html
https://scied.ucar.edu/atmosphere-layers
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/ionosphere
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/cp-wsb062818.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html

Beamed Propulsion
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PROCSIMA/
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Self_Guided_Beamed_Propulsion/
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2211/proxima-b-3d-model/
https://www.space.com/39829-nearest-exoplanet-proxima-b-superflare.html
https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/27/nasa-in-early-planning-for-2069-alpha-centauri-mission/
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/217296/20171221/nasa-plans-send-mission-proxima-centauri-2069.htm
https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol2/beamed.html
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/early_stage_innovation/centennial_challenges/cc_pb_feature_11_10_09.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-087-DFRC.html

Images:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13087
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12602
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/breeze/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30357
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20027
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA00103_Venus_-_3-D_Perspective_View_of_Lavinia_Planitia.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QJV9kqOzY
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12960
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/the-beautiful-thunderstorm-with-lightning-in-the-night-sky-slow-motion-sjjtfwduqjl1egcps
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PROCSIMA/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_Proxima_Centauri_b_shown_hypothetically_as_an_arid_rocky_super-earth.jpg