RFID Aids Space Exploration

Published: April 10, 2019

When scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) look toward deep space, one of the largest challenges they face is management of goods—equipment, tools and accessories—with a limited crew or even no crew at all. NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) is leading an effort to design three solutions to identify tagged items in space, in order reduce the need for humans to manually search for items or confirm what they are. Learn how NASA has deployed a fixed UHF RFID reading system known as REALM-1 on the International Space Station and hear how the REALM-2 free-flying, RFID-reading robot and REALM-3 Smart Stowage system are in the works for the coming years.

Speaker: Patrick Fink, REALM (RFID Logistics) Principal Investigator Chief Technologist, Wireless & Communication Systems, NASA – Johnson Space Center

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