NASA Doubles Down, Advances 6 Innovative Tech Concepts to New Phase

NIAC awards are so fun. We write about them frequently in Orbital Index because they're crazy and weird and speculative. Here are some recent favorites:

- https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-05-15-Issue-269/#nasa-...

- https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-01-24-Issue-253/#anoth...

"A proposal for a beam of microscopic hypervelocity (>120 km/s) particles propelled by laser ablation to push spacecraft on fast transit interstellar precursor missions" is fairly representative of these types of awards. :)