Attention researchers!
NASA’s TechFlights 2023 solicitation has been released!
What is TechFlights?
NASA TechFlights provides funding for the rapid testing of space technologies in relevant environments. Payloads may be tested aboard flights with U.S. commercial providers, including:
- Suborbital rockets
- Rocket-powered lander vehicles
- High-altitude balloons
- Aircraft following reduced-gravity flight profiles
- Orbital platforms that can host payloads
Flight Opportunities is joined in TechFlights 2023 by NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program and the agency’s Commercially Enabled Rapid Space Science Project (CERISS) initiative from the Science Mission Directorate (SMD).
Focus
This year, emphasis will be placed on:
- The overall impact to be achieved via the flight test awards
- Decreasing the amount of time between award and flight testing
TechFlights has two topics:
- Topic 1: In alignment with Space Technology Mission Directorate’s strategic technology framework, Topic 1 addresses demonstration of capabilities that support global lunar utilization, a robust lunar economy, and/or a growing low-Earth orbit (LEO)/ geosynchronous-Earth orbit (GEO) economy through future commercial commodities and services.
- Topic 2: Addresses technologies that can support SMD’s Commercially Enabled Rapid Space Science (CERISS) initiative, which aims to develop transformative research capabilities with the commercial space industry to dramatically increase the pace of research.
Read the full solicitation for additional details and visit the Flight Opportunities website for resources on proposing to TechFlights. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter for additional resources and opportunities!