The Innovation Panel for the event was held at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 5, 2017, and featured a mix of innovators, experts, and industry leaders who came together to determine which of a host of white-paper entries would take home a prize. On May 4th, they announced the winners. The top ten finalists will be announced on June 10 and present their ideas to NASA’s chief technologists, space industry leaders and potential investors at the 2017 NASA iTech Forum during NASA Langley Research Center’s Centennial celebrations in July. Meet the top 25 NASA iTech Cycle 2 semifinalists and their submitted challenge area that NASA is keeping its eye on: Aesop Technologies, (Newport News, VA)Aesop Nucleus, in the area of X-Factor Innovations Apex Space Technologies (Tacoma, WA)Cryogenic Vortex Scrubber for Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Removal, X-Factor Innovations Applied Chaos Lab at NCSU (Raleigh, NC)Adaptive, Fault Tolerant Hardware Suitable for Autonomous, Mission Sensitive Applications, Autonomy AT&T Moonshot (Snohomish, WA)Enabling High Earth Orbit Communications, Autonomy Audacy (Mountain View, CA)Seamless and On-Demand Satellite Communications Architecture, X-Factor Innovations Bitome (Boston, MA)In Vivo Metabolism Monitoring by Miniaturized NMR Spectroscopy, Medical Systems and Operations CALCE (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)Fusion Prognostics for System Health Management CALCE (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)An Efficient Ensemble Learning Method for Classification of Big Data CALCE (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)Radiation Reliability of Electronics in Internet of Things Applications, for Radiation Protection and Mitigation Complexity for Mars (Baltimore, MD)Algorithms and Sensors for Network Analysis of Contributing Factors to Assess and Promote Mission Resilience in Human Space Flights, in the category of X-Factor Innovations Context Medical (Santa Clara, CA)Diagnostic Digital Biomarkers, for Medical Systems and Operations Dominion Space (Austin, TX)Self-Assembling, Self-Repairing Geodesic Domes and Spheres, for Autonomy Eddy (Dallas, TX)Eddy: The Brain for the First Autonomous Farm on Mars, for Big Data Fiplate (Las Vegas, NV)Tissue Regeneration After Radiological and Acute Trauma in Space, for Radiation Protection and Mitigation NAG-Biosystems (Miami, FL)Multifactor Supplement Solution for Radiation Protection and Mitigation, for Radiation Protection and Mitigation Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA)Autonomous Operations of Large-Scale Satellite Constellations and Ground Station Networks, for Autonomy Oceania (Honolulu, HI)In-Situ Resource Utilization: Extraterrestrial Active Transformer for Elemental Recovery, for X-Factor Innovations Omnivorous (Washington, DC)Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Unmet Needs, in Autonomy PacSci EMC (Chandler, AZ)Modular Architecture Propulsion System (MAPS™), for X-Factor Innovations QuantumStack (Suffolk, VA)Decentralized Global Computer Network, in Big Data SpaceBooster (Aurora, CO)Interplanetary Spacecraft, in X-Factor Innovations TriTex (Houston, TX)Tradeoffs in Data Analytics, for Big Data UHD Robotics Team (Houston, TX)Cognitive Control of Robots with Functional Neuroimaging Data and Transfer Learning, for Autonomy State University of New York at Buffalo (Amherst, NY)Relative Navigation for a Formation of Spacecraft With Laser Communication Devices, for Autonomy University of Houston (Houston, TX)Biologically Inspired Adaptive Anti-Icing Surfaces, for X-Factor Innovations Read more about startups helping NASA get to Mars at Tech.Co
