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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Keeping the Connection

After a Kennedy Space Center test-flight program proved the capability of a tiny radio that enables satellite-to-satellite communication, the Upland, Indiana-based NearSpace Launch Inc. made it commercially...

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Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That

Commercial space vehicles, from satellites to lunar landers, need flight software. Red Canyon Software Inc. uses an open-source program developed by Goddard Space Flight Center to help...

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Ballooning Business for Shrinking Cameras

Miniaturized sensors that fly on a zero-pressure balloon collect data and take pictures that are as expansive as satellite images but are more precise. Denver-based Urban Sky Inc. leveraged...

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NASA Engineers Help Create A Virtual World of Data

Using patented technology developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as the founders’ experience creating data visualization systems for JPL, Virtualitics Inc. of...

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Unfurling Antennas Let Tiny Satellites Do Big Things

A license, SBIR funding, and a contract to develop a deployable antenna, all from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as a former JPL chief engineer, helped Tendeg LLC of...

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Aqua Solutions for Terra Firma

To provide weather information to underserved farming communities in India, ilika Geospatial LLC of Edison, New Jersey, developed a weather app that uses data from the Aqua and Terra satellites...

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NASA Helps Make Connections in Air and Space

When Johnson Space Center needed an Ethernet switch on the Orion capsule to manage data the spacecraft beams back to Earth, DornerWorks Ltd. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was subcontracted...

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Traveling-Wave Tubes Travel Far

To receive scientific data, NASA needed versions of electronic components that were small but powerful for launching on deep space missions, and contracted with Hughes to build them. A successor...

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CubeSats Take a Bus into Space

CubeSats start with a hardware bus that houses and enables payloads. NASA Tipping Point funding for test flights informed the development of the Trestles bus sold by Irvine, California-based Tyvak...

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Learning to Code with NASA Data

To create programming teaching materials, Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Washington, collaborated with the Office of STEM Engagement at NASA Headquarters under a Space Act Agreement. By using NASA data...

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Expertise Flows from Computer Cognition

Keeping the lights on in West Africa can be difficult, as the electricity market in the region is plagued with power shortages. While disparities exist, access has improved in the last decade...

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NASA-Born Software Helps Weather Forecasting Around the Globe

The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most active on record, and 2021’s is shaping up to be as well, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

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NASA-Born Software Keeps Cloud Traffic Moving

From your streaming TV queue to the cloud storage where you keep photos, servers now play an important role in our lives. As the world continues to need more from these specialized...

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Computers Tough Enough for Space

A tough computer might sound like one that can be dropped from a high table, but in space, computers need to be tough both inside and out. The Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient...

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TetrUSS Stacks Up Building Blocks for Aircraft Design

Anyone who excelled at the Game Boy’s top-selling video game will recall the animated rocket liftoffs that celebrated high scores. In addition to simulated rocketry and the...

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Flying in the Fast Lane with Air Traffic Software

Think of the national airspace as a complex highway system, but with planes. They’re all moving at different speeds and converging on relatively few airports, intent upon arriving...

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Debugging Code Is Rocket Science

Incorrect computer code can blow up rockets, as NASA learned from the first launch in the Ariane 5 rocket series. The 501 rocket used computer code written for the Ariane 4 series – but the change...

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Communicating via Long-Distance Lasers

Visible light has been used to communicate for centuries: lanterns on ships and Morse code flashes allowed information to be conveyed at a distance. But now there’s a better way to use light...