NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research

NASA Supports Research by Early Career Staff

A Step Forward in Lunar Exploration: NASA’s Early Career Award Empowers Innovative Research NASA has taken another significant step in advancing lunar exploration by awarding the prestigious NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award to Sylvie Crowell, a talented materials researcher based at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Crowell’s research project, titled "Lunar Dust Reduction […]

NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research

Sylvie Crowell Credit: NASA Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).” The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces.  Operated under the NASA Space Technology Mission Di…

Astrobotic Developing XL Solar Array Tech for Lunar Power Infrastructure

Pittsburgh, PA – July 15, 2024 – NASA has awarded Astrobotic a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to advance development of its Extra Large Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT-XL). Towering at over 30 m tall with the ability to generate 50 kW of power from its 20-meter-long solar panels, VSAT-XL would be the largest planned lunar power infrastructure to date to meet the growing power requirements of planned lunar missions. “A…