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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Copper is the most widely used electrical conductor. Like most metals, though, it has several drawbacks: it is heavy, expensive, and can break. Fibers that conduct...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a young Scottish scientist with a side practice of discretely treating the syphilis infections of prominent Londoners, was researching agents that could...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Like the environment of space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. But far beneath the waves near Key Largo, Florida,...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
By mid-1963, American astronauts had visited space on six different occasions, all as part of NASA’s first human space flight program, the...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
To work in NASA’s Mission Control Center and share in the excitement of seeing the very first close-up images of Saturn being piped back to Earth (from the...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
From the football turf to high above the Earth, heat exhaustion is a life-threatening concern. Heat exhaustion, or hyperthermia, is an acute...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) acquires, archives, and manages data from all of NASA’s Earth science satellites, for the benefit of the...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
One of the forces that propels scientific and cultural advancement is exploration. The mission of NASA is to pioneer the future of space exploration,...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
All turbofan engines work on the same principle. A large fan at the front of the engine draws air in. A portion of the air enters the compressor, but a greater...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
On December 28, 1997, a United Airlines plane flying from Japan to Hawaii experienced severe turbulence while over the West Pacific Ocean. Over 100 individuals on...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
It is possible to get a crude estimate of wind speed and direction while driving a car at night in the rain, with the motion of the raindrop reflections...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Langley Research Center conducts research in support of all of the aeronautics project at NASA. It continues to forge new frontiers in aviation research, as...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
A laser diode is a semiconductor-based laser used to generate analog signals or digital pulses for transmission through optical fibers or through...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Water is indispensable for human health and well-being. A person cannot live for more than a few days without clean, drinkable water. It is, therefore, one of the most...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In preparing to send man to the Moon in the 1960s, no detail was too small for NASA to consider when it came to ensuring that humans and their...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Responding to a congressional concern about aviation safety, NASA's Ames Research Center created the Ames Fatigue/Jet Lag Program in 1980 to examine the...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
If "pulling the rug out from under" means suddenly withdrawing support and assistance, then NASA is pretty good at "putting the rug under" when...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Just before the space shuttle reaches orbit, its three main engines shut down so that it can achieve separation from the massive external tank that provided the fuel required for...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
For over 5 years, people have been living and working in space on the International Space Station (ISS), a state-of-the-art laboratory complex orbiting high...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA has always been on the cutting edge of aviation safety research, though many of the technologies the Agency develops also find practical application in ground...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA does things that have never been done "before" sending spacecraft to other planets, sending people to the Moon, and exploring the limits of the universe. To...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While fashion styles are known to come and go, a certain 'shade' from the past has proved otherwise.
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) entered the Red Planet's atmosphere in March 2006, it joined the ranks of other noble explorers studying...
Briefs: Materials
Some wholly aromatic ether-imides consisting of rod-shaped, relatively-low-mass molecules that can form liquid crystals have been investigated for potential utility as electron-donor-type...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., a subcontractor of Societatea Nationala Nucleoelectrica S.A. (SNN) of Romania, contracted Badger Meter to model, test, and produce a set of precision valves...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The pulse-flow microencapsulation system (PFMS) is an automated system that continuously produces a stream of liquid-filled microcapsules for delivery of therapeutic agents to target tissues. Prior...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automated Low-Gravitation Facility Would Make Optical Fibers
A report describes a proposed automated facility that would be operated in outer space to produce high-quality optical fibers from fluoride-based glasses, free of light-scattering crystallites that form during production in normal Earth gravitation. Before launch, glass preforms would be...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a liquid to flow, and is an important measurement requirement in industrial process control and OEM applications. Viscosity describes the...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An enhanced alignment cube has been invented for use in a confined setting (e.g., a cryogenic chamber) in which optical access may be limited to a single line of sight. Whereas traditional alignment-cube...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.