SBIR Phase I: Resilient Gravitronic Communication System

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力解决了普遍获得通信的需求，特别是在传统通信方法受到影响或无法获得的地方。全球紧张局势、通信卫星的脆弱性、自然灾害频率的增加、物理障碍和人类空间探索使有弹性的通信比以往任何时候都更加重要。由于物质实际上对引力波(GW)是不可见的，这种波可以在行星或湍流的大气中传输信息，而不需要中继卫星。在接下来的十年里，相干引力波通信系统的组件有可能解决这些挑战，并为其他高级应用提供基础技术，例如地面轨道清理、行星和小行星物质成分分析、小行星偏转和无线能量传输系统等。这个SBIR第一阶段项目建议建立在研究的基础上，该研究表明，动态源质量配置可以在当前技术可检测的区域内改变局部引力场。通过提高引力场探测器的灵敏度，实现对引力场局部变化的细粒度控制，并全面隔离系统与非引力影响，可以开发出更好的诱导引力场变化的表征。这些进展可能会带来改进的研究工具和方法，为开发未来产生相干引力波的系统配置提供途径。这项研究是通过弹性引力通信系统直接或间接发送和接收调制信息的重要一步。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the need for the universal availability of communications, especially in places where traditional communication methods are compromised or unavailable. Global tension, vulnerability of communication satellites, an increase in the frequency of natural disasters, physical barriers, and human space exploration make resilient communications more important than ever. Since matter is practically invisible to gravitational waves (GWs), such waves can transmit information through a planet or turbulent atmosphere without requiring relay satellites. In the coming decade, components of a coherent gravitational wave communication system have the potential to address these challenges and deliver foundational technology for other advanced applications such as ground based orbital cleanup, planet and planetoid matter composition analysis, asteroid deflection, and wireless energy transfer systems to name a few.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to build upon research that shows dynamic source mass configurations can change the local gravitational field in regimes detectable by current technology. By improving the gravitational field detector’s sensitivity, implementing fine grained control of local changes in the gravitational field, and comprehensively isolating the system from non-gravitational influences, an improved characterization of induced gravitational field changes may be developed. These advances could lead to improved research tools and methods that are a pathway to the development of future system configurations that generate coherent gravitational waves. This research is an essential step toward directly or indirectly transmitting and receiving modulated information by a resilient gravitational communication system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.