2020 NASA Technology Taxonomy

What is the 2020 NASA Technology Taxonomy?

NASA involves in a variation of technology development events to allow NASA missions by extending knowledge of and abilities in aeronautics, science, and space. To manage and connect this extensive and diverse technology selection, NASA uses technology taxonomy. This taxonomy identifies, organizes, and links technology areas relevant to preceding the action’s mission.

The 2020 NASA Technology Taxonomy provides a structure for pronouncing the technology development corrections needed to enable future space missions and support saleable air travel. 

The 2020 revision is included 17 distinct technical discipline-based Taxonomies that provide a broken structure for each technology area. The taxonomy uses a three-level order for grouping and forming technology types. 

Level 1 signifies the technology area, which is the title of that area Force Systems). Level 2 is the angle of the areas. Level 3 labels the types of technologies within the subareas. Joined Systems and Additional Technologies). Also included is an example technologies unit that provides a non-complete model of relevant technologies.

History of NASA’s Technology Taxonomy

The 2020 NASA Technology Taxonomy is part of the progress that was created with technology roadmaps and the Technology Area Breakdown Structure recruited in 2010, followed by updates in 2012 and 2015.

The energy to develop the roadmaps began in 2010 when NASA has known 14 space technology areas, with top technical challenges and relevant orbiting missions. The final versions of the roadmaps and linked TABS were released in April 2012.

The 2015 Technology Roadmaps are greater and long drawn out than the TABS of the 2012 Roadmaps, answering NASA’s changing needs, fees in technology, and suggested improvements from the Nationwide Research Convention and other investors. NASA began the effort to update the technology roadmaps by causal how the development process, roadmap scope, and roadmap content could be improved. The 2015 roadmaps and their TABS included some improvements such as an extended choice and greater adjustment.

The 2020 change process began in 2017 and was led by NASA’s Center Technology Council, along with the Office of the Chief Scientist and subject problem professionals from throughout the agency with a review of the 2015 TABS. It was decided that the 2020 revision would decouple the TABS from the roadmaps and join a technical correction-based taxonomy method to bring into line like technologies below a technology area.

What’s new in the 2020 edition?

The updated 2020 NASA Technology Taxonomy returns a shift to a building that aligns technology areas created on technical corrections. To reach this shift the review holds adjusts and presents new Level 1 and Level 2 technology areas while closing others and joining them with current areas. 

The new structure develops to 17 technology areas and switches a previous Level 4 “Technology Runners” with countless listings of example technologies for that sector. The 2020 update also includes new technologies related to NASA, such as cyber security and expansions in false intelligence.

• Other a Level 2 unit at the end of each TX to capture those technologies not highlighted away in the TX but going in the TX section.

• Recollected and updated a crosscutting unit with the addition of systems not featured in TX 1-17 that cross-cut across the TX areas

• Joined TA1 Launch Force Systems and TA2 In-Space Propulsion Technologies into one area, TX01 Impulsion, and involved elements of propulsion for special systems.

What are the 17 Taxonomy Areas?

TX01: Propulsion Systems. This area covers technologies for natural and non-chemical propulsion systems or their linked additional systems for propulsion, space launch propulsion, or in-space propulsion requests.

TX02: Flight Computing and Avionics. This area covers matchless microchip technology and computing hardware when practical to flight systems, whether in space or impressive.

TX03: Aerospace Power and Energy Storing. This area covers the changed components of a power system—power generation, energy storage, and power managing and distribution—that need technological developments to enable or increase NASA missions.

TX04: Robotic Systems. This area shields technologies for robotic systems that will be leveraged as science explorers, pioneer explorers above crewed missions, crew partners, EVA movement aids, and as caretakers of unattended resources.

TX05: Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Rubbish Following and Report Systems. This area covers technologies for moving orders, Spacelab telemetry, mission data, and voice for human investigation missions while upholding exact timing and providing navigation support. Orbital rubble can be tracked and pigeon-holed by some of the same systems used for Spacelab roads and navigation, as well as by other expert systems.

Network Providing Position, Navigation, and Timing 

Network Providing Location, Navigation, and Timing technologies support onboard space platform control, navigation, and control self-rule by dropping trust on Earth-based systems for ground-based tracing, going, flight and orbit resolve, and maneuver design and finishing functions. This area also contains technologies for space flight dynamics/mission design tools and techniques.

NASA technology development Plan

The NASA Planned Technology Investment Plan (NASA STIP) is a full strategic plan that arranges space technologies needed for the detection of NASA's mission and the success of nationwide goals. The NASA STIP was made following the improvement of a series of Agency Space Technology Roadmaps in 2010.