RELEASE 2019-04: NASA iTech’s Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS Announces Presenters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                        April 3, 2019

NIA Release: 2019-04

NASA iTech’s Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS Announces Presenters

What: Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS, a NASA iTech event, at the 35^th Space Symposium

When: April 10^th from 5:00 – 6:30 PM MDT

Where: The Broadmoor Hotel, 1 Lake Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS offers area entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch a technology that is solving a real-world problem and might also address a similar challenge with NASA’s Moon to Mars mission.

Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS focus areas include Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Robotic Capabilities, Intelligent Machines, Force and Tactile Sensors, Augmented and Virtual Reality Advancements, Flexible Materials and X-Factor Innovations.

Innovators presenting at Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS (in alphabetic order):

1. Atlas Power Generation Inc.– Mission, Canada “Grid Scale Energy Storage with Ultracapacitors and Deflection Conversion Technology”        
2. Baker Street Scientific (BakerSCI) – Rome, Georgia “Elemental Data Behavior Discovery”
3. Exodus Space– Highlands Ranch, Colorado “AstroClipper – Transforming Access to Space”
4. Ion Power Group LLC – Navarre, Florida “A Better Way for NASA to Produce Electricity on Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Titan, Triton and Pluto”    
5. Klepsydra Robotics GmbH– Zurich, Switzerland “High Performance Edge Data Processing Software Toolkit for Autonomous Embedded Systems”
6. Nu Promethean Technologies, Inc.– Longmont, Colorado “Nu Promethean”
7. Oxford Space Systems– Harwell, United Kingdom “Novel ‘Pre-Shaped’ Deployable Parabolic Reflectors”
8. Steelhead Composites– Golden, Colorado “Piston Combined Propellant/Pressurant Vessel”
9. Physia– Aurora, Colorado “Physia Smart Garment”
10. Stress Engineering Services, Inc.– Houston, Texas “Semi-Autonomous Robotic Surgery for Remote Environments”

The top Innovator from Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS earns a position as one of the 25 Semifinalists for the current cycle where their technology will be evaluated and has a chance to be selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists to present at the 2019 NASA iTech Cycle I Forum in Pasadena, California.

NASA’s iTech is an initiative by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, is managed by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in Hampton, Virginia, and presented in collaboration with the Space Foundation.

For information about the NASA iTech initiative, visit:

www.nasaitech.com

For information about NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit:

www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home

Press Contact:

Harla Sherwood
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va.
757-636-6300
sherwood@nianet.org