Spinoff is NASA's annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, the NASA Innovative Partnerships Program has facilitated the transfer of NASA technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy. The resulting commercialization has contributed to the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and environmental resources. Since 1976, Spinoff has featured between 40 and 50 of these commercial products annually.
Jan 2008
Optics Program Simplifies Analysis and Design
Future spaceborne astronomy missions will require telescopes with increasingly greater power, driving the dimensions of the optics and their housing structures to significantly greater sizes.
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Hybrid Modeling Improves Health and Performance Monitoring
Scientists and engineers have long used computers to model physical systems. Physical modeling is a major part of design and development processes, as well as failure analysis. At NASA, scientists and engineers rely heavily on physical modeling to evaluate the overall health and performance of all mission-related flight vehicles. Read More >>
Design Application Translates 2-D Graphics to 3-D Surfaces
When it comes to solving some of NASA’s most challenging technical problems, the mathematical minds that make up the Computational Sciences Branch at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are ready and waiting to crunch some numbers. Calculating complex algorithms and mathematical equations like it’s child’s play, the ...
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Software Sharing Enables Smarter Content Management
As NASA’s leading organization for information sciences, the Intelligent Systems Division at Ames Research Center conducts world-class computational research to enable out-of-this-world capabilities. In particular, this division is dedicated to ushering in a new era of autonomous spacecraft and robotic exploration, as well as extending abilities in space through ...
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Engineering Software Suite Validates System Design
Design errors are costly. When it comes to creating complex systems for aerospace design and testing system readiness, engineering system requirements must be clearly defined, and these systems need to be tested to ensure accuracy, consistency, and safety. Testing a system, however, can require as much as 50 to 70 percent of ...
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Jan 2006
Scheduling Software for Complex Scenarios
A History of High-Performance Computing
Difficult Decisions Made Easier
GPS Eye-in-the-Sky Software Takes Closer Look Below
Jan 2005
Celestial Software Scratches More Than the SurfaceA Search Engine That's Aware of Your Needs
Fault-Detection Tool Has Companies Mining Own Business
Software to Manage the Unmanageable
Tracking Electromagnetic Energy With SQUIDs
Taking the Risk Out of Risk Assessment
Satellite and Ground System Solutions at Your Fingertips
Structural Analysis Made NESSUSary
Software of Seismic Proportions Promotes Enjoyable Learning
Jan 2004
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN SPACEIMPROVING THE FLOW
FROM VIDEO TO PHOTO
MANAGING CONTENT IN A MATTER OF MINUTES
CONVERSING WITH COMPUTERS
HEARING IN TRUE 3-D
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