NASA Tech Needs: Aerospace
Weightless “Weight”-Lifting Builds Muscle on Earth
NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid spent hundreds of hours exercising during her 188-day stay on the Russian space station Mir in 1996. Although it was her least favorite...
Techs for License: Aerospace
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Aeronautics
FACET flexible software helps air traffic control centers improve airline safety and efficiency. It includes programs and databases that...
Techs for License: Communications
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Communications
This technology uses recent advances in Radio Frequency Identification Devices, combined with smart software, to create an electronic firefighter evacuation...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies
NASA’s Technology Transfer Program is a true national asset. It brings together the space agency’s most capable problem-solvers with America’s brightest commercial and entrepreneurial leaders in partnerships...
Techs for License: Electronics & Computers
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Electrical/Electronics
This technology represents a significant improvement over commercial state-of-the-art magnets. These superconducting magnets are very versatile and can...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Environment
This method offers a way of processing and recycling liquids to remove contaminants. The two-step process provides a contaminant treatment pouch, called a “urine...
Techs for License: Medical
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Health, Medicine & Biotechnology
Atomic oxygen oxidizes and removes biologically active contaminants, and reduces the contaminant to an inactive ash. Thus, the contaminant...
Techs for License: Information Technology
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Information Technology & Software
This invention is a system for managing a project that includes multiple tasks and workers. Periodic monthly, task plan, schedule, and budget...
Techs for License: Imaging
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Instrumentation
This technology provides automated sample handling and movement of coarse-grained powder or other solid materials to enable analysis by a...
Techs for License: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A handheld laser torch was designed for welding and brazing metals to repair hard-to-reach space shuttle engine nozzles. It incorporates various...
Techs for License: Materials
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Materials & Coatings
Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) can be deformed at low temperature and recover their original shape upon heating. New alloys can operate up to ~300 °C, compared to ~80 °C...
Techs for License: Motion Control
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This flexible joint provides two degrees of freedom and a tremendous amount of compliance. The overstrain sensor joint has a passive and...
Articles: Imaging
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Optics
The traditional test for visual acuity requires the patient to look and report which letters they see. A new invention provides an automated system to estimate visual acuity based...
Techs for License: Energy
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Power Generation & Storage
Effective Battery Health Monitoring (BHM) technologies are needed to ensure that battery operation is optimal and, if not, that it stays within...
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