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NASA Spinoff: Medical
NASA Technology
As NASA sets its sights on long-duration missions deeper into the solar system, including a planned mission to Mars, astronauts will need access to health-monitoring...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
In 2007, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a call for a sensor that could equip a smartphone with the ability to detect dangerous gases and chemicals, Ames...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
The old saying about the inability to build a better mousetrap could also apply to aircraft design tools. For years, the best, and maybe only, way to dream up a...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
In the American Southwest and in northwestern Mexico, more than half the annual rainfall often comes in the form of the torrential and unpredictable downpours of the...
NASA Spinoff: Materials
NASA Technology
When NASA builds a spacecraft, materials engineers at the Agency have the important task of assessing the structural properties of the materials that comprise various hardware,...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
Technology often takes circuitous paths. A magnetron developed for precision bombing during World War II led to the microwave oven, and a battery-powered drill created for...
NASA Spinoff: Imaging
NASA Technology
Finding a forest fire can be more difficult than some would expect. Seeing smoke in the distance indicates a problem, but determining the exact location where the...
NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
NASA Technology
In a corner of Ames Research Center in California stand a pair of rather unusual buildings, where mere mortals can control magnetic fields.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
NASA Technology
From the Apollo missions through the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has relied on liquid hydrogen as a fuel source for the upper stages of its rocket launches. The reason is simple:...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
Building on work he and his companies did with Johnson Space Center’s In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) team, Robert Zubrin has developed and commercialized...
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
Sharing computer code with the private sector has become a major component of NASA’s Technology Transfer Program, with the Agency’s latest software catalog...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
Consider any component of a modern passenger airplane, and you’ll discover a remarkable amount of engineering complexity that went into its design. Turbofan...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
Glenn Research Center has always been in the business of perfecting engines. During World War II, the center, then called the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, developed a...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
NASA Technology
In the 1990s, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist Joy Crisp oversaw an effort to get a cutting-edge, ruggedized, lightweight spectrometer on a lander to be carried by...
NASA Spinoff: Information Technology
NASA Technology
It was sometime in late 2004, and Tom Stanley, technical monitor and small business technical advisor out of Stennis Space Center, took to studying newly completed storm surge...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
At a glance, the surface of Mars appears to offer little in the way of natural resources. Scenes captured by the various rovers exploring the planet depict a desolate,...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
F rom its beginnings, the U.S. X-Plane Program has delivered big on its objective: to advance aviation science and technology through the use of experimental aircraft. On...
NASA Spinoff: Materials
NASA Technology
Nick Blanton spends a lot of time outdoors, skiing in the winter months and hiking when the weather’s warm. All of this takes a toll on his electronic gadgets, which are...
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
Rocket science and simplicity don’t normally go hand in hand, but that’s what NASA had in mind when the Agency developed the Fastrac turbopump in the mid-1990s.
NASA Spinoff: Information Technology
NASA Technology
When a small group of NASA software developers met with representatives of Rackspace Inc. at a Thai restaurant in early 2010, few would have predicted that the...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) causes almost 100 deaths each year in the United States. Although warning systems have virtually eliminated CFIT for large...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
In June of 1991, Japanese scientist Sumio Iijima had been studying fullerenes, man-made molecules made up entirely of carbon, when he discovered under an electron...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New technology combines the benefits of non-contact linear position sensing with the programmability of a programmable controller in a relatively small sensor package. This...
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
NASA Technology
L anny Faleide founded his Agri ImaGIS company, now called Satshot Inc., in 1994 on an idea that may have given offense to the day’s tillers of the earth:...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
For a number of applications, the pointing direction towards the Sun must be known or measured. Con ventional Sun sensors determine the pointing direction towards the Sun while the Sun is in the field of view of the...
NASA Spinoff: Information Technology
NASA Technology
A couple of years ago, AJ Abdallat went online and bought a bracelet from a major department store as a gift for his wife. He wasn’t happy with the product, he...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A conventional Sun sensor determines the orientation of the Sun in two axes. If mounted on Earth in a known coordinate system, it can determine the azimuth and elevation of the Sun. When mounted...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Venus Heat Flux Sensor
A sensor element that consists of a thermally resistive layer made of nand p-type semiconductor elements amplifies the temperature gradient in the resistive layer that results from heat flow through the sensor. The thermoelectric array provides greater accuracy and sensitivity over a traditional thermopile arrangement for...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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