NASA Spinoff
Transportation
Spinoff: Transportation
Data Visualizer Enhances Modeling for Cars, Consumer Products
Spinoff: Transportation
Innovative Design Propels Small Jet Faster, Farther with Less Fuel
Spinoff: Transportation
Design Software Transforms How Commercial Jetliners Are Built
Spinoff: Transportation
Original Cryogenic Engine Still Powers Exploration, Defense, Industry
Spinoff: Transportation
Time-Triggered Ethernet Slims Down Critical Data Systems
Spinoff: Transportation
Simplified Aircraft Modeling Packs Weeks of Analysis into Minutes
Spinoff: Transportation
Hydraulic Carts Streamline Structural Tests for Aircraft
Spinoff: Transportation
CO2 Sensors Monitor Vehicle Emissions from Above
Spinoff: Transportation
Orion Parachute Innovations Carry Commercial Rockets Back to Earth
Spinoff: Transportation
Software Opens Computational Fluid Dynamics to the Uninitiated
Spinoff: Transportation
Design Software Shapes Future Sonic Booms
Spinoff: Transportation
Unmanned Research Aircraft Test Cutting-Edge Innovations
Spinoff: Transportation
Open Source Aircraft Design Software Helps Industry, Hobbyists
Spinoff: Transportation
Multidisciplinary Software to Help Take Aircraft to the Next Level
Spinoff: Transportation
Lightweight, Ultra-Strong Nanotubes to Transform Industry
Spinoff: Transportation
Orbital Trajectory Analyzer Takes Mission Planning to New Heights
Spinoff: Transportation
Flight Controller Software Protects Lightweight, Flexible Aircraft
NASA Technology
Since its founding in 1958, NASA has made profound contributions to aviation, including advancing our understanding of flight mechanics—the study of forces that affect aircraft in flight—and devising ways to improve aircraft performance.
Spinoff: Transportation
IonoSTAGE Ensures Accuracy of Pilots’ GPS
NASA Technology
To permit safe and reliable aircraft navigation over North America using the Global Positioning System (GPS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has developed the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), which improves the accuracy, availability, continuity, and integrity of...
Spinoff: Transportation
Aircraft Geared Architecture Reduces Fuel Cost and Noise
Spinoff: Transportation
Ubiquitous Supercritical Wing Design Cuts Billions in Fuel Costs
Spinoff: Transportation
Cabin Pressure Monitors Notify Pilots to Save Lives
NASA Technology
Typical cruising altitudes for business and commercial aircraft are up to 50,000 feet or more. At such altitudes, the oxygen concentrations in the air are much lower than on the ground. Occupants could not survive in this environment without pressure inside the aircraft...
Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Standards Inform Comfortable Car Seats
Spinoff: Transportation
Data Mining Tools Make Flights Safer, More Efficient
Spinoff: Transportation
Experiments Result in Safer, Spin-Resistant Aircraft
Spinoff: Transportation
Heat Shield Paves the Way for Commercial Space
Spinoff: Transportation
Interfaces Visualize Data for Airline Safety, Efficiency
Spinoff: Transportation
Anti-Icing Formulas Prevent Train Delays
In the winter of 2009, Washington, DC, workers faced the prospect of a difficult commute due to record-setting snowfalls. But thousands of the city’s Metrorail riders found the public transportation system fully functional, thanks in part to a NASA technology invented years before.
Spinoff: Transportation
Shuttle Repair Tools Automate Vehicle Maintenance
NASA Technology
Successfully building, flying, and maintaining the space shuttles was an immensely complex job that required a high level of detailed, precise engineering. After each shuttle landed, it entered a maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) phase. Each system...
Spinoff: Transportation
Pressure-Sensitive Paints Advance Rotorcraft Design Testing
NASA Technology
The rotors of certain helicopters can spin at speeds as high as 500 revolutions per minute. As the blades slice through the air, they flex, moving into the wind and back out, experiencing pressure changes on the order of thousands of times a second...
Spinoff: Transportation
Polymers Advance Heat Management Materials for Vehicles
NASA Technology
For 6 years prior to the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program, the shuttles carried an onboard repair kit with a tool for emergency use: two tubes of NOAX, or “good goo,” as some people called it. NOAX flew on all 22 flights following the Columbia...