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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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...