Federal contract award

NNC16JZ23D

IGF::OT::IGF THE LIQUID CRYSTAL OF NANOPLATES (LCN) EXPERIMENT IS DESIGNED TO USE LIQUID CRYSTAL AS A UNIQUE SYSTEM TO STUDY THE CRYSTALLIZATION (ALSO KNOWN AS NANO DISKS SHAPED STRUCTURES) OF COLLOIDAL SYSTEM. NASA INTENDS TO UTILIZE AS MUCH OF THE OASIS (OBSERVATION ANALYSIS OF SMECTIC ISLANDS IN SPACE) HARDWARE, SUCH AS THE AVIONICS ASSEMBLY, DIGITAL I/O AND POWER UNIT EXPERIMENT TO FURTHER EXPERIMENTS SUCH AS LCN AND FUTURE LIQUID CRYSTAL EXPERIMENTS. HOWEVER, A NEW SAMPLE CONTAINER NEEDS TO BE FABRICATED AND POSSIBLE MODIFICATION TO THE OPTICS ASSEMBLY AND DIAGNOSTICS WILL BE NEEDED. TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE SCIENCE OF LCN PRIOR TO FLYING THIS EXPERIMENT IN FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2020, AN LCN PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIVE EXPERIMENT WILL BE DEVELOPED USING NANORACKS PLATFORM AND NANOLAB MODULES ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) IN FY 2019.