NUBURU, Inc., a leading innovator in high-power and high-brightness industrial blue laser technology, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) to demonstrate the feasibility of power beaming in space using the Company’s proprietary Blue Laser technology. Through NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding initiative, NUBURU has been selected to create a qualified solution that mitigates the high costs associated with transporting copper or aluminum wires that are critical to provide power a lunar or planetary base to remote locations.
“We believe power beaming has the potential to stand as a viable solution to the power management challenges facing NASA and other space operators today,” said Mark Zediker, CEO of NUBURU. “Powered by our Blue Laser technology, the system we are developing is intended to dramatically reduce the size and weight of the equipment needed to meet regular mission needs.”
During the initial phase of the project, NUBURU will focus its efforts on establishing the scientific, technical and the commercial merit and feasibility of its technology. From there, NUBURU aims to create a commercially viable product to tackle this ongoing problem.”
In addition to tackling the core business challenges associated with power transmission, NUBURU’s laser technology could potentially provide visual guidance to astronauts due to the scatter off either the fine regolith powder suspended above the moon’s surface or the Rayleigh Scattering off the Martian atmosphere and thus creating a guided highway across these surfaces.
NASA’s SBIR program funds the research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies that fulfill NASA needs as described in the annual solicitations and have significant potential for successful commercialization. This three-phase process begins with a six-month idea generation period followed by a two-year prototype development phase that then leads to commercialization.
Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of industrial blue lasers that leverage fundamental physics and their high-brightness, high-power design to produce faster, higher quality welds and parts than current lasers can provide in laser welding and additive manufacturing of copper, gold, aluminum and other industrially important metals.
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