Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

A Planetary Sensor’s Earthly Applications

Technology supported by NASA for identifying planetary conditions is used on Earth by frackers and others. The photodiodes from Greenbelt, Maryland-based CoolCAD Electronics Inc. have...

Spinoff: Transportation

Living Off Our Moon

Decades of data that Johnson Space Center has used to identify the possible location of water ice and minerals on the Moon also powers Lunar Station’s analysis of in-situ resources to support mission planning....

Spinoff: Transportation

New Insulation Can Benefit Many Industries

With SBIR funding from Glenn Research Center and other NASA field centers, Quest Thermal Group developed a more uniform, effective, structurally sound take on traditional multilayer...

Spinoff: Transportation

Softer Moon Landings for Companies

Landing technology developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center is now available from Psionic Inc. of Hampton, Virginia, which holds the license and has been improving the Doppler lidar...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Handbag Made from Basic NASA Research

The manufacturing process for a fungi-based leather alternative from Hydefy, a brand from Nature’s Fynd in Chicago, benefited from Small Business Innovation Research funding from NASA Ames...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

NASA-Derived Textiles Go on Tour

To improve temperature-regulating materials for spacesuits, Johnson Space Center provided Small Business Innovation Research funding that resulted in a way to infuse phase-change materials into...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Knowledge Is Battery Power

After working with Goddard Space Flight Center on Small Business Innovation Research grants, the founder of Electra Vehicles transferred the knowledge he gained and technology he developed to the field of...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Spotting Invisible Gas Leaks

Momentick of Tel Aviv, Israel, applies proprietary image-processing algorithms to data from several Earth-imaging satellites, especially from the Landsat missions, which Goddard Space Flight Center...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

The Impact of Space Junk

A Debris Assessment Software license helps Toronto-based Kepler Communications test a virtual copy of its satellites, verifying the effectiveness of the planned deorbit scenario required by federal agencies...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Old-School Software Enables New Missions

Trajectory design and visualization software NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center funded in the late 1980s has evolved into Astrogator, part of the Systems Tool Kit from Canonsburg,...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Simulations That Are Positively Radiant

To develop radiation sensors for deep space missions, Johnson Space Center provided Small Business Innovation Research funding to Tech-X Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, to design software...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Teaching an Old New Tricks

In the 1960s, Langley Research Center oversaw a comprehensive investigation of the shape memory alloy nitinol, research that was foundational to nitonol products from Metalwerks, including a new...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

3D Printable Alloy Can Take the Heat

GRX-810, a new alloy developed by Glenn Research Center, will make lightweight, durable metal parts needed for space travel. Under a co-exclusive license for NASA’s patented alloy, Elementum 3D...

Spinoff: Transportation

Cloud Software for Above the Clouds

Using software licensed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and experience gained from working there, Continuum Space Systems of Pasadena, California produces cloud-based mission planning tools for...

Spinoff: Transportation

Commercial Sales Flow from NASA Valves

Marotta Controls of Montville, New Jersey, developed various valves for companies that were funded by NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services and Commercial Crew programs, supported in part by...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

From Mars Rovers to Factory Assembly Lines

Boston-based Neurala’s AI vision software identifies product defects during manufacturing using technology developed with STTR funding from NASA’s Langley Research Center, which was...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Space Tech Gives Treadmill Users a ‘Boost’

Boost Treadmills of Palo Alto, California, is the second company cofounded by the son of a former Ames Research Center employee to capitalize on a concept his father developed for...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Space-Based Tech for Home Health Monitoring

Radio-frequency technology developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and licensed by Advanced TeleSensors of Austin, Texas, makes it possible to monitor vital signs remotely. The...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Seeing Is Communicating

An effort funded by Congress to improve and miniaturize eye-tracking communication technology for people with disabilities brought Eyegaze together with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Fairfax,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

NASA Sets Standard for Nutritional Health Products

Houston-based Nugevity is a restructured version of the company AmeriSciences, which worked with Johnson Space Center to develop dietary supplements for astronauts and then...

Spinoff: Transportation

Bringing Hybrid Power to the Rescue

With Small Business Innovation Research funding from Glenn Research Center, Parallel Flight Technologies of La Selva Beach, California, was able to test its hybrid propulsion technology, enabling...

Spinoff: Transportation

Launch, Return, Repeat

After attending a NASA Technology Transfer Program Startup Studio, Canopy Aerospace entered into a Space Act Agreement with the Ames Research Center to learn how to manufacture the thermal protection tiles...

Spinoff: Transportation

Controlled Propulsion for Gentle Landings

The sky cranes landing rovers on Mars used a new pyrovalve to ensure propulsion fuel flowed at the right moment. Now commercial space companies are using the same hardware designed by Eaton...

Spinoff: Public Safety

A Better Backup Plan for the Unthinkable

Sagrad of Melbourne, Florida, offers a technology to automatically end the flight of any rocket that experiences difficulty. The technology will soon be required at every federal launchpad. A...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Giving Sensors Good Optics

When Armstrong Flight Research Center needed a way to make temperature measurements over wide surfaces, it developed algorithms to create a flight-ready fiber-optic sensor. Sensuron of Austin, Texas,...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Cosmic Experiments Make Cosmetic Nutrients

The Rotary Cell Culture System invented by researchers at Johnson Space Center lets cells grow faster and healthier than they would in a dish. Brand Labs USA of Fort Lauderdale, Florida,...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist’s Toolkit

While working on optical computing and similar technology in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Lang learned a mathematical technique that became key to his math-based...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Home-Grown Housing

Growing lunar and Martian habitats from mushrooms requires a special process, so Ames Research Center used NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funding to create and test a growth system. It’s been adapted...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Flipping NASA Tech and Sticking the Landing

Looking for a reliable method of adhesion for its product that lets a phone stick almost anywhere, Flipstik of St. Louis, Missouri, used published research into robotic grippers conducted...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

NASA and Education Make Quite the Pear

To further its educational content offerings, Pear Deck of El Segundo, California, partnered with NASA Headquarters’ Office of STEM Engagement to consult agency technology experts and build...