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Advanced miniaturization is a key thrust area to enable new science and exploration missions
- Ultrasmall sensors, power sources, communication, navigation, and propulsion systems with very low mass, volume and power consumption are needed
Revolutions in electronics and computing will allow reconfigurable, autonomous, "thinking" spacecraft
Nanotechnology presents a whole new spectrum of opportunities to build device components and systems for entirely new space architectures
- Networks of ultrasmall probes on planetary surfaces
- Micro-rovers that drive, hop, fly, and burrow
- Collection of microspacecraft making a variety of measurements
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Onboard computing systems for future autonomous intelligent vehicle
- powerful, compact, low power - consumption, radiation hard
High performance computing
(Tera- and Peta-flops) - processing satellite data
- integrated space vehicle engineering
- climate modeling
Revolutionary computing technologies
Smart, compact sensors, ultrasmall probes
Advanced miniaturization of all systems
Microspacecraft
Autonomous 'thinking' spacecraft
Micro-, nano-rovers for planetary exploration
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Nanotechnology to meet future needs on electronics, computing, data storage, nanoelectromechanical systems(NEMS), sensors, instrumentation, and thermal protection materials
The interface of nano, bio, and information
technologies provides extraordinary opportunities for novel solutions to NASA's needs
Bio-inspired structures, materials, and devices
Tera- and peta-flop computing requires semiconductor devices with feature size of 50 nm or less, or perhaps other unconventional devices such as quantum devices, carbon nanotube based electronics; and optical interconnects
- What is the physics of these nanodevices?
- How do they function? reliable? robust?
Large scale computational modeling of devices and processes and complementary experimental research are keys to finding solutions to these challenges.
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