Sunnyvale, CA. – July 15, 2022 – G-SPACE, Inc., is proud to announce its recent selection by the NASA Science Mission Directorate for a highly competitive NRA award to provide unique microgravity insights from the openly available data in NASA’s Physical Sciences Informatics Systems. The accepted proposal was part of the Physical Sciences Informatics System call for proposals, which is part of Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences – 2021 (ROSES-2021) solicitation. 

G-SPACE, Inc offers an end-to-end Software-as-a-Service AI-powered platform ATOM(™) to support data, analytics and design needs for microgravity R&D and in-space manufacturing. The proposal, entitled “Development of a computer vision based toolbox for feature extraction, analysis, modeling and prediction of microgravity data sets” is the only one out of the total of five selected awards that goes to a non-academic institution and, to our knowledge, it is also the first time that NASA PSI NRA commits such an award to a new space startup. 

As highlighted in the official NASA SMD release, the award is a recognition from NASA that commercial companies such as G-SPACE can contribute to high quality science: “another selected investigation seeks to develop the ATOM™ toolbox, a simple computer vision, data analytics and machine learning tool, to expand the meaning and interpretation of existing microgravity data in the PSI system. The results of the project will provide the means for users to better interact with the data, standardize data output and perform insightful analysis on selected datasets to increase the science readiness of investigations.” – NASA, 2022

“We believe in the power of open source data. By providing a freemium version of ATOM™ toolbox to the microgravity research community which will be accessible through NASA’s PSI, G-SPACE is committed to expand the use of existing microgravity data towards scientific advancements, open up avenues for new investigations, optimize experiment design for more effective use of time in microgravity and ultimately bridging towards meaningful applications for in-space manufacturing. In fact, through G-SPACE, users are in for an additional treat represented by our Mercuria in-space manufacturing commercialization and market assessment optimization engine” says Founder and CEO of G-SPACE, Dr. Ioana Cozmuta and the PI of this award. 

“This is a huge opportunity and breakthrough for G-SPACE to have a platform to advertise and showcase ATOM™ to the microgravity research community and build its functionalities by directly collaborating with and responding to the needs of the microgravity researchers. Ultimately, our goal is for ATOM™ to lay the foundation for realistic roadmaps rooted in solid microgravity science leading to superior in-space manufactured products.“ reinforces Dr. Brian Motil, VP of Microgravity at G-SPACE. 

About G-SPACE

G-SPACE, Inc., enables industry to create advanced materials, compounds and manufacturing processes for the digital age by removing the effects of gravity. We support the creation of space-enhanced advanced materials and compounds by using an AI-powered terrestrial SaaS platform (ATOM™) for the forecasting, design and qualification required by academic researchers, space providers, and terrestrial manufacturers. We extract delta-to-gravity™ analytics before, during, and after flying experiments to space. G-SPACE capitalizes on multiple decades of NASA experience on microgravity experimentation, commercialization, and in-space manufacturing.

About the Physical Sciences Research Program

The Physical Sciences Research Program is managed by the Biological and Physical Sciences Division in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. This program conducts fundamental and applied physical sciences research, with the objective of pioneering scientific discovery, enabling space exploration, and providing benefits on Earth. The program furthers fundamental research by investigating the fundamental laws of the universe and physical phenomena in the absence of gravity. The program also conducts applied research, which contributes to the basic understanding underlying space exploration technologies that will further our return to the Moon and our journey to Mars and beyond. Both have led to improved space systems or new products on Earth.

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