As space travel and attempts to create new boundaries on the research of outer space continues, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts of 2015 show off the twelve new proposals that have gotten funding for this, approved over the past June: one of which, that has gotten the most media attention, is the creation of a telescope with an even higher resolution than Hubble.

Last June, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts of 2015 selected twelve new projects that would be getting further funding to be ultimately created in the field of space research; each of these projects will be getting $100,000 worth of research over the next nine months.

According to GizMag, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts of 2015 projects include a wide variety of research fields, including capturing asteroids, sending out submarines to the lakes of Titan and, most interestingly, the creation of a device called the Aragoscope, which will be able to see even further than the current capacity of the Hubble Space Telescope in low Earth orbit.

UPI reports that the next stage of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts 2015 funding will select six proposals to gather an additional $500,000 in the month of April, as they gather further funding due to the possibilities behind their projects.

Currently, Harness and CU-Boulder Professor Webster Cash are developing the Aragoscope telescope project, with a proposition first developed by the University of Colorado. The project was named after the French scientist François Arago.

Front Line Desk reports that the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC for short) was first started four years ago, with the final goal of encouraging further space research by providing funds for the execution of innovative ideas in the field.

Before the official announcement on whether the Aragoscope will stay or go from the funding program, the University of Colorado researchers are working on the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts 2015, as the orbiting space telescope will supposedly be about half a mile wide with a resolution 1000x sharper as that of Hubble.