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.

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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...

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: Trending

NASA Data Helps Beavers Build Back Streams

Boise State University in Idaho and Utah State University in Logan are using a NASA grant and data from satellites supported by Goddard Space Flight Center to identify streams that could...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

3D Printed Engines Propel Next Industrial Revolution

Tipping Point funding and an Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity, both from Marshall Space Flight Center, helped Erie, Colorado-based Elementum 3D refine its 3D printable...

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

Cutting the Knee Surgery Cord

The first FDA-cleared wireless arthroscopic camera for minimally invasive knee surgeries and other orthopedic procedures got early support from NASA through the Adopt a City program, which enabled Glenn...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

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...

Spinoff: Transportation

From Shark Searches to Space Tours

Aurora Flight Sciences incorporates NASA expertise gained through multiple Armstrong Flight Research Center SBIR contracts to develop technology that enables remote piloting of conventional small...

Spinoff: Transportation

Artificial Eyes Give Pilots a New Worldview

Combining ultra-high-definition video streams from multiple cameras on the NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane required new video cards to process the data. A contract with...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

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...