The NIAC Symposium begins today with presentations on advanced propulsion, extreme-environment systems, sensors, and deep-space exploration concepts.
The three-day symposium is free to watch online and includes progress reports from Phase I, II, and III fellows.
This is one of the better places to see technologies years before they become mainstream NASA projects — propulsion concepts, unconventional spacecraft architectures, sensing, and exploration systems.
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program funds ideas that are too early for normal missions but technically credible enough to investigate.