NASA’s Innovations and Contributions Board (ICB) has awarded Industrial Invention of the Yr to NASA Glenn Analysis Heart’s GRX-810: A 3D Printable Alloy Designed for Excessive Environments.
NASA Alloy GRX–810, an oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy, can endure temperatures over 2,000 levels Fahrenheit. It’s extra malleable and might survive greater than 1,000 occasions longer than present state-of-the-art alloys. This new alloy can be utilized to construct aerospace elements for high-temperature functions, like these inside plane and rocket engines, as a result of ODS alloys can face up to harsher situations earlier than reaching their breaking level.
The NASA Glenn workforce of inventors contains Dr. Timothy Smith (co-lead), Dr. Christopher Kantzos (co-lead), Robert Carter, and Dr. Michael Kulis.
4 American firms have been granted co-exclusive licenses to provide and market GRX-810 materials. All 4 have replicated NASA Glenn’s patented course of and are promoting totally coated supplies. This advantages the USA financial system as a return on funding of taxpayer {dollars}.
For extra info on this expertise, go to 3D Printed Alloy and New Materials Constructed to Face up to Excessive Situations.
The NASA insignia is 3D printed utilizing the GRX-810 superalloy.
Video Credit score: NASA/Jordan Salkin
Moreover, the ICB chosen NASA Glenn’s Excessive-Fee Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN) mission for an honorable point out within the Software program of the Yr class. HDTN is a protocol suite that extends terrestrial web ideas to the area atmosphere, making a high-speed knowledge switch path for spacecraft and totally different communication techniques. It’s an optimized model of the DTN customary for high-rate radio frequency and optical hyperlinks.
The ICB critiques and recommends awards for vital scientific and technical contributions to the company’s aeronautical and area actions. These awards acknowledge applied sciences that not solely advance NASA’s mission but additionally profit the general public by commercialization.
