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NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The materials used to make airplanes and space shuttles do not last forever. That is why NASA frequently inspects launch vehicles, fuel tanks, crew habitats, and...
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NASA Spinoff: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Smaller, with enhanced capabilities. Less expensive, while providing improved performance. Energy efficient, without sacrificing capabilities....
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NASA Spinoff: Imaging
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution On January 16, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-107. At T plus 82 seconds, with the orbiter rocketing upwards at 1,870 miles...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution As the launch clock counts down, astronauts in the space shuttle prepare for the fastest ride of their lives. More powerful than any plane, train, or...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Knowing what will happen before it happens is no easy task. That is why new spacecraft and technology are constantly being tested and refined—including the...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Much is made of the engineering that enables the complex operations of a rover examining the surface of Mars—and rightly so. But even the most...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Monitoring the health of a machine can be just as tricky as monitoring the health of a human. Like in the human body, a variety of subsystems must work...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution For the last 25 years, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames esearch Center has provided extremely fast supercomputing resources, not only...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Using the Spitzer Space telescope, NASA scientists detected light from two Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets for the first time in 2005. Findings like these...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution To better understand and predict global climate, scientists look to the Earth’s oceans. Natural forces like wind, storms, and heat affect ocean...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution On May 20, 1996, astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor watched as a unique structure unfolded in space like a complex trick of...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Getting to the Moon is, to say the least, challenging. Being on the Moon, though, is no picnic either. In addition to the obvious life support and...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution At Glenn Research Center’s Ballistic Impact Facility, engineers study new materials and the ways that they react to sudden, brute force. Using...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution In late 2009, a rocket traveling twice as fast as a speeding bullet crashed into the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution In March of 2009, the Kepler spacecraft was launched to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems outside of our own solar system, with a...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The amount of detail a telescope can see is directly related to the size of its mirrors. To look deep into space at galaxies over 13 billion light years...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution People often think of NASA’s research as pushing the boundaries of our universe—sending people, robots, and spacecraft into the dark reaches of the...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Since the early days of space flight, fuel cells have provided an important source of power for extended missions to space. Aboard the space...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution It was one of the few times that a crash landing would be deemed a success. On October 9, 2009, nine sensor instruments—including five...
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution While President Obama’s news that NASA would encourage private companies to develop vehicles to take NASA into space may have come as a surprise...
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NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution That space is a hazardous environment for humans is common knowledge. Even beyond the obvious lack of air and gravity, the extreme temperatures and exposure to...
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News: Government
Funding Opportunity for Vehicle Research and Development
The DOE is accepting applications for up to $184 million over three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of new efficient vehicle technologies that will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, save drivers money, and limit carbon pollution.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
High-Resolution Wind Measurements for Offshore Wind Energy Development
A mathematical transform, called the Rosette Transform, together with a new method, called the Dense Sampling Method, have been developed. The Rosette Transform is invented to apply to both the mean part and the fluctuating part of a targeted radar signature using the Dense...
Blog: Physical Sciences
Biologically Inspired = Highly Desired?
Mother Nature is a great innovator. In fact, one might argue that some of today's most efficient technologies were not engineered, but rather, exist in nature as the byproducts of a little process called evolution. As such, it comes as no surprise that scientists sometimes look to nature as a source of...
News: Energy
Last Thursday, I left New York for DC to check out the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) held at the Washington Convention Center. Though my Amtrak train was a little slow in getting there, the show flew by in a...
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News: Energy
Renewable energy comes out of an electricity socket, but to get there it has to travel a long journey – from wind turbines out at sea or regional solar, wind, and biogas power plants. On...
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INSIDER: Medical
Researcher Develops Instrument to Study Single Biological Molecules
Sanjeevi Sivasankar was looking for a better tool to study how cells adhere to each other. Cells have surface proteins, called cadherins, that help them stick together. Different kinds of cells have different kinds of cadherins. The typical tools for observing and measuring those...
INSIDER: Medical
Ultrasound Technique May Enable Alzheimer's Treatment
Ultrasound, a reverberating pitch too high for the human ear to recognize, has many applications including creating images of fetuses in the womb. But Elisa Konofagou, a professor at Columbia University, may be on the brink of uncovering a new use for ultrasound - the ability to temporarily open...
News: Energy
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge...
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Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.