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...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Toxin-Eating Plants

A rating system to identify which houseplants remove specific indoor toxins from the air started with NASA plant research performed at Stennis Space Center. London-based Plant Drop expanded that research into an...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Scaling Up Hydrogen

The Cryostat CS900 is poised to enable widespread use of liquid hydrogen as an energy carrier, according to James Fesmire, who invented the technology for his company, Titusville, Florida-based GenH2, building on...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

View from the Sky Helps Predict Crop Yields

Argentinian company SIMA offers a crop yield forecasting feature for its farming app, developed with help from NASA Harvest, an agricultural consortium led by University of Maryland...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Hubble Battery Tech Holds Power on Earth

Nickel-hydrogen batteries store renewable energy for power plants, businesses, and homes, thanks to innovations from Fremont, California-based EnerVenue, informed by NASA papers out of Glenn...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Better Data for Bodies in Motion

To discover why astronauts returning to Earth frequently experience head and neck injuries, Johnson Space Center awarded Diversified Technical Systems of Seal Beach, California, SBIR contracts to...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Tweaking Analysis Tools to Give SAGE Advice

Under SBIR funding from Langley Research Center, Quartus Engineering of San Diego tested the tools it used to analyze optical assemblies for an atmosphere-observing satellite. With better...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Coral Expertise Finds Broad Application

Miami-based HySpeed Computing offers remote sensing services using code the company’s founder developed under funding from NASA Headquarters as a graduate student studying coral...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Hard(ware) to the Core

To emulate its SP0-S single-board computer, Aitech Systems of Chatsworth, California, uses the core Flight System software framework developed at Goddard Space Flight Center, enabling companies to test how...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Intelligent Processing at the Edge

With help from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dublin-based Ubotica Technologies validated computer equipment designed to process data in orbit, now available for commercial satellites.

Earth...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Using AI to Predict the Sky

KX Systems, which has offices in New York City, joined the NASA-led Frontier Development Lab partnership hosted at Ames Research Center to explore how its kdb+ analytics platform could be applied to...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Make Way for Satellites

Using experience gained managing orbital awareness for NASA missions at Goddard Space Flight Center, Kayhan Space of Broomfield, Colorado, assists commercial space operators by providing software that ensures...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

From Cockpit Controls to Dashboard Data

When NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Ames Research Center needed a method of building computer interfaces, The DiSTI Corporation of Orlando, Florida adapted its software to meet NASA’s...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Equalizing Internet Access

NASA Headquarters contracted Equalize Digital to ensure the agency’s new website was accessible to people with disabilities. The Georgetown, Texas-based company created a Wordpress highlighting tool to...