Volume 8, Number 2     March/April 2000

Events

Join NASA at the 11th Annual Technology 2000 Series Exposition, October 31—November 2, 2000, at the Meydenbauer Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. This year’s expo will feature America’s premier showcase of new and emerging technologies available for license and commercial development. This exciting event will be colocated with the third annual Small Business Tech Expo and the National SBIR Fall Conference.

For more information, visit www.T2expo.com, or contact Del DelaBarre Associates at 360/683-1828. Further updates will be provided in upcoming issues of Innovation.

NASA will promote an aggressive new initiative targeted at the materials sector at the SAMPE 2000 conference, May 21 to 25, 2000, in Long Beach, California. NASA can be found at Booth #443 across from the New Products Showcase. Darrel Tenney of Langley Research Center will be a member of the SAMPE keynote panel on May 23, at 9 a.m. He will discuss NASA’s strategic direction and upcoming technology needs. Four NASA executives will outline NASA’s anticipated materials needs and partnership opportunities on Wednesday, May 24, at 8 a.m. Briefings will be held on licensable technologies, including Marshall Space Flight Center’s Thermal Gasket, an electrically conductive substrate that can fill imperfections and adhere like a liquid sealant or braze, creating a zero-leakage joint that can easily be disassembled for service; Marshall’s Strong, Lightweight Tanks and Pipes for Chemically Aggressive Fluids, which offers better containment of fluids and weighs less than aluminum or fiberglass tanks; Langley Research Center’s LARC™ RP46, a high-temperature, easy to process, low-cost polymer; Langley’s Waterproof, Breathable Fire-resistant Laminates, which significantly reduces the danger of toxic compound production when exposed to flame or other high heat source; and Glenn Research Center’s UV Curable Polyimides, high-temperature polymers that can be cured at or near room temperature using ultraviolet light.

For more information, contact Charles Taylor at the Mid-Atlantic Technology Applications Center. 412/383-2590, ) ctaylor@mtac.pitt.edu

As part of the international Sixth Ka-Band Utilization Conference, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is planning a one-day event on May 31, 2000, to acknowledge the achievements of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) Experiment Program. After 81 months of operation, the ACTS will conclude in June 2000. The conference will feature invited technical papers highlighting the major accomplishments of the ACTS Experiment Program after 1995. Glenn will present plans for the future of its communications technology program. The ACTS shutdown ceremony in the evening will feature NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin (invited) and industry speakers who are utilizing the ACTS technologies in their Ka-band systems.

For more information, send an e-mail to spacecom@lerc.nasa.gov or visit the ACTS Conference 2000 Web site at http://kaconf.grc.nasa.gov/Ac2000/default.htm