RELEASE 04-03-2019: A iTech’s Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS Announces Presenters

What: Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS, a NASA iTech event, at the 35th Space Symposium When: April 10th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm MDT Where: The Broadmoor Hotel, 1 Lake Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS offers area entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch a technology that is solving a real-world problem and might also address a similar challenge with NASA’s Moon to Mars mission. Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS focus areas include Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Robotic Capabilities, Intelligent Machines, Force and Tactile Sensors, Augmented and Virtual Reality Advancements, Flexible Materials, and X-Factor Innovations. Innovators presenting at Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS (in alphabetic order): Atlas Power Generation, Inc. – Mission, Canada Grid Scale Energy Storage with Ultracapacitors and Deflection Conversion Technology Exodus Space Corporation – Highlands Ranch, Colorado AstroClipper – Transforming Access to Space Ion Power Group, LLC – Navarre, Florida A Better Way for NASA to Produce Electricity on Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Titan, Triton and Pluto Klepsydra Robotics GmbH – Zurich, Switzerland High Performance Edge Data Processing Software Toolkit for Autonomous Embedded Systems  Nu Promethean Technologies, Inc. – Longmont, Colorado Nu Promethean Oxford Space Systems – Harwell, United Kingdom Novel ‘Pre-Shaped’ Deployable Parabolic Reflectors Physia – Aurora, Colorado Physia Smart Garment Steelhead Composites – Golden, Colorado Piston Combined Propellant/Pressurant Vessel Stress Engineering Services, Inc. – Houston, Texas Semi-Autonomous Robotic Surgery for Remote Environments The top Innovator from Ignite the Night COLORADO SPRINGS earns a position as one of the 25 Semifinalists for the current cycle where their technology will be evaluated and has a chance to be selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists to present at the 2019 NASA iTech Cycle I Forum in Pasadena, California. NASA’s iTech is an initiative by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, is managed by the (NIA) in Hampton, Virginia, and presented in collaboration with the Space Foundation. For information about the NASA iTech initiative, visit: www.nasaitech.org For information about NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit: www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home Harla Sherwood National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va. 757-636-6300 sherwood@nianet.org