NASA Nanotechnology

NASA Mission Needs
Onboard computing systems for future autonomous intelligent vehicles
- 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
• 'Thinking' spacecraft
• Micro-, nano-rovers for planetary exploration
• Novel materials for future spacecraft