2nd NLAP Workshop                            

NLAP aims to address the following technology topics:

• RF antenna techniques
• RF receiver technologies (incl. ADC, FPGA, DSP developments)
• Digital signal processing algorithm development, including techniques for transient detection, direction of arrival techniques, and low-power processing
• RFI mitigation techniques & RFI determination for space applications (e.g. for lunar locations and SE L2 locations)
• Database techniques
• Distributed sensor networks techniques (interferometry)
• Space "exploration" of LF radio astronomy: distributed observing systems in space or on the moon
• Data communication techniques (intra satellite, high-speed inter-satellite links, High-speed long-range downlink
• Imaging and calibration techniques
• Clock synchronization and ranging algorithms
• High-accuracy clocks/timing
• Antenna deployment mechanisms
• Propulsion systems
• Reaction control systems
• Solar arrays with integrated phased array transceivers
• On-Board Computer with swarm control algorithms
• Navigation systems (either pulsar based, or sun/star-sensor based, perhaps using optical navigation techniques)
• Attitude determination systems (star trackers, fine sun-sensors)
• ...

NLAP aims to address the following science topics:

• Planetary science
• Solar physics and space weather
• Radio transients: Black Hole and Neutron Star systems, Pulsars, etc.
• Extra-galactic surveys
• Radio galaxies and AGNs
• LF radio maps of the sky
• Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Neutrinos
• Lunar science (ionosphere characterization, dust creation and transportation, Cosmic Rays and High Energy Neutrinos, etc.)
• Cosmological Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Re-ionization studies
• ...

These lists are not exhaustive.