National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Partnership Opportunities at NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryIndrani GraczykCommercial Programs OfficeNASA JPL

JPL is a part of NASA and Caltech

• NASA Research and Development Center (FFRDC)

• University Operated (Caltech)

• $2.4B Business Base

• 167 acre site with 1.5M Net Square Feet Office and Lab Space

• 139 Buildings; 36 Trailers

• 6000 Employees

JPL’s Mission for NASARobotic Space Exploration for NASA Science

Mars • Solar system • Exoplanets • Astrophysics • Earth Science • Interplanetary network

23 Spacecraft and 9 Instruments Across the Solar System and Beyond

Instruments

• MISR (1999) • AIRS (2002) • TES (2004) • MLS (2004) • ASTER (2009) • OPALS (2014) • MARSIS (2003)

Two Voyagers (1977) QuikSCAT (1999) Mars Odyssey (2001) Jason 2 (2008) Opportunity (2003) Spitzer (2003) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005)

CloudSat (2006) Dawn (2007) NEOWISE (2009) Juno (2011) Curiosity (2011) NuSTAR (2012) OCO-3 (2014)

Jason 3 (2016)

SMAP (2015)

Earth Science Planetary

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InSight (2018) MarCO (2018) GRACE-FO (2018)

• CAL (2018)Astrophysics

RainCube (2018)

• ECOSTRESS (2018)

End-to-End Capabilities to Implement Missions

Project Formulation

Mission Design

Spacecraft Development

Real Time Operations

IntegrationTesting

Platforms

Payloads

Scientific Research

Technology Development

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Spinoffs of JPL Technology

IT / Computing

Healthcare

Security Energy

Manufacturing

Education

Aerospace

Mobile Devices

Cameras

Disaster Response

FINDER – Finding Individuals in Disaster and Emergency Response

FINDER in Action

Safer Operations

Surgical Tools

Robotics at JPL

Robosimian in action

Advanced MaterialsMetallic Structures

Software and Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Opportunities – Deployable Antennas• A new all-metal dual-frequency high gain

antenna is under development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the potential Europa Lander mission.

• The antenna is mainly made of metal to survive the harsh environment conditions (i.e. very low temperature and high radiation and ESD levels).

• The antenna is also flat to meet drastic volume constraints and has efficiencies higher than 80% at both the uplink and downlink 8 GHz Deep Space frequency bands.

• This antenna is a key component to the mission enabling Direct Link to Earth (DTE) from the lander without any relay.

• Antenna efficiency: 80%

Lander Configuration pictured above

The design has heritage from JUNO and SMAP

Deployment already demonstrated

Opportunities – Electric Propulsion• Hall thrusters typically suffer from wall

erosion due to plasma bombardment

• Walls need to be made of special materials to deter erosion, but these materials are expensive and fragile

• A new configuration of a miniature hall thruster developed at JPL provides magnetic shielding that increases the lifetime and durability of Hall Thrusters

• The new configuration both eliminates both mass and complexity, and therefore greatly reduces cost

The H6MS Hall thruster installed in a vacuum chamber

at JPL prior to the first demonstration of magnetic shielding at 3,000 seconds

specific impulse.

Opportunities – Optical Communications• JPL has developed multiple advances in

optical systems for deep space communications

• OmniTera will allow terabit per second data transfer rates in any direction

• Data rates are 3-4 orders of magnitude higher than any current data transfer technology

• Each transceiver is composed of an array of lasers and dectectors working at distinct wavelengths

OmniTerra Concept for Configuration of

Transceivers

How JPL Transfers Technology to Industry

• Entrepreneurial JPL innovators:• Develop cross-cutting technologies

• Seek opportunities to transfer technology

• Partner with industry to advance technology for commercial applications

• Office of Technology Transfer at JPL supports innovators by facilitating:

• IP protections, patents, copyrights

• IP agreements, licenses, joint ownership

• Commercial Program Office and NASA Management Office at JPL facilitate:

• Space Act Agreements (SAAs) for collaborations to mature technologies

JPL Technical Innovator is Central to the Process

For more Information…

Indrani GraczykCommercial Program Office at JPL

Indrani.Graczyk@jpl.nasa.govIndrani.Graczyk@jpl.caltech.edu

Office – (818) 354-2241Cell – (818) 298-5034