Focus Areas
ONRI’s research focus areas are decided by the ONRI researchers, a process dependent on the world’s most pressing challenges at the time, and supported by the Board of Trustees. Once determined, OPUS NOVUM Foundation supports ONRI’s focus areas with discretionary resources available through the ON Realm as well as provides guidance during the establishment process of new strategic collaborations including its legal team for arrangement of any necessary contractual vehicles.
The current ONRI focus areas include:
- Aerospace Research: Small Spacecrafts, Control Systems, Unconventional propopulsion systems, Spacecraft payload research and development
- Exploration Technologies: Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Mobility Systems, Communication & Navigation, Sustainable Technologies, ISRU, Space Sciences, Science Instruments & Systems, EDL, Advanced Materials & Structures, Information Technology
- Earth Sciences: Oceans, Climate, and Earthquake Research
- Life Sciences: Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine
