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: Health and Medicine

Extraterrestrial Medical Diagnostics

A portable device made by Boston-based 1Drop Diagnostics US can test a single drop of blood for numerous medical conditions. Glenn Research Center prepared the technology for testing on the...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Boosting Bone Health

Because astronauts can lose bone density on long-duration missions, Johnson Space Center conducts research on bone loss. Data provided by NASA-funded research helped Osteoboost Health of Redwood City,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Better Seat for the Seated

Kalogon was founded in Melbourne, Florida, by a former NASA contractor, who used experience working on the Commercial Crew Program based at Kennedy Space Center to design a wheelchair seat that helps...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

NASA Invention Goes Straight to the Heart

Two engineers at Glenn Research Center developed a tiny, implantable transmitter and handheld reader. Endotronix of Naperville, Illinois, now part of Edwards Lifesciences, licensed the...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Robots in the Operating Room

Virtual Incision of Lincoln, Nebraska, used funding from Johnson Space Center to develop a mini surgical robot that’s now authorized for colectomies. A version of the device designed for space...

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: Transportation

Making Future Satellite Fuel Today

With the help of a former Marshall Space Flight Center employee, Rubicon Space created a new in-space propulsion systems for satellites. The Huntsville, Alabama company employs a non-toxic fuel...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Feeding People Through Disasters

Washington-based World Central Kitchen uses data from satellites in low Earth orbit to build maps supporting staff and volunteers distributing food and water in disaster areas. The nonprofit gets the...

Spinoff: Public Safety

For Battery Safety, KULR Heads Prevail

KULR Technology Group, based in Webster, Texas, has leveraged technology licensed from Johnson Space Center, earlier work done for the agency, and the long NASA experience of its chief...

Spinoff: Public Safety

Saving Lives at Sea and on Land

Satellites carrying Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking technology act as the link between emergency beacons and worldwide search and rescue teams. ACR Electronics of Fort Lauderdale, Florida,...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Aerogel Art Attracts Attention

Lessons learned during visits to an aerogel lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped Ioannis Michaloudis of Limassol, Cyprus, build a career as an aerogel artist. The material is difficult to work...

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: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Greens Grow in Circles

After working on research funded by Ames Research Center into growing plants indoors, the founders of Anu used what they learned to develop a system to aeroponically grow fruits and veggies.

Keeping an...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Filtering Out Risk

The World Wide Fund for Nature, whose U.S. headquarters is in Washington, D.C., uses Earth-observation data managed by Goddard Space Flight Center in its Risk Filter Suite. The platform informs businesses’...

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: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Search for Life Helps the Search for Oil

To bolster development of sensors for exploring alien worlds, NASA provided SBIR funding to Impossible Sensing to improve spectroscopic sensors, which are now used to help oil companies...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Mapping a World of Data

Esri’s Living Atlas offers a bird’s-eye view of Earth by combining free Earth-observation data from Goddard Space Flight Center with other resources. Continual updates by the Redlands, California-based...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Drone Company Makes It Rain Forests

At Ames Research Center, Lauren Fletcher learned about building hardware around plant and animal biology. Later, he applied those lessons to create seedball-launching drones that are helping to...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Machines from Mars Make Beer Bubbly

Earthly Labs of Austin, Texas, now part of Chart Industries, built small-scale carbon-capture technology based on a license from Pioneer Energy. Pioneer had developed the technology based on work...

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: Computer Technology

Probe Deeper with Better Space Receivers

To build a better radio for deep space exploration missions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a small, configurable radio that’s just as capable as larger models. Today, Argotec,...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Weaving Data Fabric with AI

Through a Space Act Agreement with NASA Ames Research Center, Autonomy Association International of Mountain View, California, developed an artificial intelligence platform that is used by industrial...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Data Analysis Goes to the Dogs

NASA Headquarters approached experts to develop an artificial intelligence system to find institutional knowledge at NASA. That company, Stardog Union of Arlington, Virginia, now sells a version of it...