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: Computer Technology

Intelligent Machines Remove Humans from the Loop

Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation of Tiburon, California, operates an automated, secure, ground-based global communications network. The technology started with a Space Act...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

NASA Hydrogen History Informs World’s Hydrogen Future

CB&I of The Woodlands, Texas, built the world’s largest liquid hydrogen tank at Kennedy Space Center to support Artemis launches. The experience with new construction...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Out-of-This-World Organs

Heart tissue, knee cartilage, and pharmaceutical crystals have been cultivated in space using Jacksonville, Florida-based Redwire’s ADSEP shelving unit, which was developed for and has been improved by...

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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Measuring Buzz, Hum, and Rattle

Collecting flight test noise data or chirps from insects in a field is as simple as laying out a wireless microphone system. Interdisciplinary Consulting Corp. of Gainesville, Florida, worked with...

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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Dust-Powered 3D Printing

AI SpaceFactory sells 3D Printers informed by its work on Marshall Space Flight Center’s Centennial Challenge, which the Secaucus, New Jersey company won with print material containing crushed basalt...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Cutting-Edge Computing Goes Spaceborne

Hewlett Packard Enterprise of Spring, Texas, worked with Ames Research Center to send a computer to space that was radiation-hardened with software. Now the approach is making fast, low-cost...

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: 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: 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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Spraying for Food Safety

Kennedy Space Center consulted with industry to develop a new electrostatic spraying nozzle to water plants in the weightless environment of space. Electrostatic Spraying Systems of Watkinsville, Georgia,...

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...

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

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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Instant Innovation for Plastic Products

A Kennedy Space Center technologist figured out how to infuse plastics with aerogel to make them better insulators. It also made them more fire-resistant, water-repellant, sound-damping,...

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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

NASA ‘RAMPT’ Up 3D Printed Engine Size

Marshall Space Flight Center used Game Changing Development funding to work with RPM Innovations (RPMI) of Rapid City, South Dakota, on scaling up 3D printed engines. The work refined...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Innovation Comes Out of the Wool Work

To ensure firefighting equipment would have enough filtration to keep astronauts safe on the Orion spacecraft, Johnson Space Center turned to Auckland, New Zealand-based Lanaco to make improved...

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: 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...