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2024 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley
- NASA's Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley marks its 85th year with an overview of its work in 2024.
- Ames Arc Jets played a key role in confirming the understanding of the loss of Avcoat material on Orion spacecraft heat shields during the Artemis I test flight, helping to inform future spacecraft heat shield designs.
- The Starling spacecraft swarm completed its mission objectives, demonstrating significant achievements in the capabilities of swarm configurations in low Earth orbit.
- BioNutrients entered its fifth year of developing microorganisms to produce on-demand nutrients for astronauts and demonstrated that the system could produce nutrients after at least five years in space, increasing confidence in supporting future missions.
- The new hyperwall visualization system upgrade provides four times the resolution of the previous system, assisting researchers with better visualizing large datasets produced by NASA instruments.
- NASA Ames contributed to the agency’s artificial intelligence work through research, development, agencywide collaboration, and communications efforts, including introducing a chief artificial intelligence officer.
- NASA Ames helped advance future space exploration through the successful deployment of a composite solar sail and the discovery of how Mars' moons may have formed through a series of supercomputer simulations.
- NASA and collaborative partners continued to develop new technologies to support remote wildland firefighting and improving real-time communication among firefighters using high altitude balloons.
- The Ames Visitor Center was fully reimagined to showcase the work of NASA in Silicon Valley, and Ames worked with the University of California on technical exchange workshops, hosting supercomputing resources and collaborations in space exploration and cancer research.
- NASA also paved the way for newly-approved package delivery drone flights in the Dallas area and saw fuel savings and fewer delays at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport thanks to a NASA-developed tool that identifies efficient, alternative takeoff routes.
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