{"id":109191,"date":"2017-07-31T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109191"},"modified":"2017-07-31T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T03:35:05","slug":"nasa-awards-usd14-3m-business-grants-for-robotics-deep-space-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/31\/nasa-awards-usd14-3m-business-grants-for-robotics-deep-space-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA awards USD14.3M business grants for robotics, deep-space survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109200\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NASA_seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109200\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NASA_seal.png\" alt=\"The official NASA seal (Photo By Vargklo at English Wikipedia - Source: NASA Official website. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by NativeForeigner using CommonsHelper., Public Domain)\" width=\"272\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NASA_seal.png 272w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NASA_seal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official NASA seal (Photo By Vargklo at English Wikipedia &#8211; Source: NASA Official website. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by NativeForeigner using CommonsHelper., Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 &#8212; A series of contracts totaling USD14.3 million has been awarded to small businesses for technologies that will be needed for future deep-space missions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NASA has selected 19 proposals from American small businesses and research institutions for Phase II of its competitive Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, totaling USD14.3 million in awards,&#8221; the release said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Projects include research on propulsion, robotics and other autonomous systems, as well as technologies that support human health and survival during extended space exploration missions, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proposals were selected according to their technical merit and feasibility, in addition to the experience, qualifications and facilities of the submitting organization,&#8221; the release added.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were made under a NASA program intended to stimulate partnerships between small businesses and research institutions, the release noted.<\/p>\n<p>The effort will be managed by NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in the state of California\u2019s Silicon Valley, a US hub for technology start-up companies, as well as and tech giants, such as Apple, Google and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 &#8212; A series of contracts totaling USD14.3 million has been awarded to small businesses for technologies that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20182,752,20181],"class_list":["post-109191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-deep-space-survival","tag-nasa","tag-robotics","mauthors-sputnik","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}