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Polymer Coats Leads on Implantable Medical Device

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Langley Research Center’s Soluble Imide (LaRC-SI) was discovered by accident. While researching resins and adhesives for advanced composites for...

Program Assists Satellite Designers

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Managed by Goddard Space Flight Center, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was launched on December 30, 1995, from Kennedy Space Center, and to this day, it is...

Water-Based Coating Simplifies Circuit Board Manufacturing

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The Structures and Materials Division at Glenn Research Center is devoted to developing advanced, high-temperature materials and processes for...

Software Schedules Missions, Aids Project Management

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution NASA missions require advanced planning, scheduling, and management, and the Space Agency has worked extensively to develop the programs and software...

Software Analyzes Complex Systems in Real Time

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Expert system software programs, also known as knowledge-based systems, are computer programs that emulate the knowledge and analytical skills of one or...

Wireless Sensor Network Handles Image Data

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution To relay data from remote locations for NASA’s Earth sciences research, Goddard Space Flight Center contributed to the development of “microservers”...

Virtual Reality System Offers a Wide Perspective

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Robot Systems Technology Branch engineers at Johnson Space Center created the remotely controlled Robonaut for use as an additional “set of hands” in...

Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution In the increasingly sophisticated world of high-definition flat screen monitors and television screens, image clarity and the elimination of distortion...

Inductive System Monitors Tasks

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) software developed at Ames Research Center uses artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to build system-monitoring...

Mars Mapping Technology Brings Main Street to Life

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The Red Planet has long held a particular hold on the human psyche. From the Roman god of war to Orson Welles’ infamous Halloween broadcast, our...

Intelligent Memory Module Overcomes Harsh Environments

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Solar cells, integrated circuits, and sensors are essential to manned and unmanned space flight and exploration, but such systems are highly...

Integrated Circuit Chip Improves Network Efficiency

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Prior to 1999 and the development of SpaceWire, a standard for high-speed links for computer networks managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), there...

Novel Process Revolutionizes Welding Industry

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Deformation resistance welding (DRW) is a revolutionary welding process—a new technique for joining metals—in an industry that has not changed...

Sensors Increase Productivity in Harsh Environments

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution A team of scientists at Glenn Research Center, operating under the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Aviation Safety and Fundamental...

Portable Device Analyzes Rocks and Minerals

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Building on the success of the two rover geologists that arrived on Mars in January 2004, NASA’s next rover mission is being planned for travel to the Red...

NASA Design Strengthens Welds

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The Welding Institute (TWI), a nonprofit professional organization based out of the United Kingdom and devoted to the industry of joining materials, engineering, and allied...

Polyimide Boosts High-Temperature Performance

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Polyimides are a class of polymers notable for chemical, wear, radiation, and temperature resistance, characteristics that have led to applications as...

NASA Innovation Builds Better Nanotubes

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution One of the basic nanotechnology structures, the carbon nanotube, is a graphite sheet one atomic layer thick that is wrapped on itself to create an extraordinarily...

Lockable Knee Brace Speeds Rehabilitation

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Marshall Space Flight Center develops key transportation and propulsion technologies for the Space Agency. The Center manages propulsion hardware and...

Robotic Joints Support Horses and Humans

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution A rehabilitative device first featured in Spinoff 2003 is not only helping human patients regain the ability to walk, but is now helping our four-legged friends...

Photorefraction Screens Millions for Vision Disorders

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Who would have thought that stargazing in the 1980s would lead to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren seeing more clearly today? Collaborating...

Periodontal Probe Improves Exams, Alleviates Pain

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution “Dentists,” comedian Bill Cosby memorably mused, “tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair, and the...

Magnetic Separator Enhances Treatment Possibilities

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Since the earliest missions in space, NASA specialists have performed experiments in low gravity. Protein crystal growth, cell and tissue cultures, and...

Lithium Battery Power Delivers Electric Vehicles to Market

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution As increased energy efficiency, and particularly fuel efficiency, becomes a greater concern, hybrid and electric vehicles gain greater...

Advanced Control System Increases Helicopter Safety

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution For over 30 years, NASA and U.S. Army engineers have worked together at Ames Research Center to make rotorcraft fly more quickly, quietly, and safely...

Aerodynamics Research Revolutionizes Truck Design

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution The last 35 years have seen a sea change in the design of trucks on America’s highways, reflecting extensive research into vehicle aerodynamics and...

Engineering Models Ease and Speed Prototyping

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution NASA astronauts plan to return to the Moon as early as 2015 and establish a lunar base, from which 6-month flights to Mars would be launched by 2030....

Software Performs Complex Design Analysis

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Designers use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to gain greater understanding of the fluid flow phenomena involved in components being designed. They also use...