Game Changing Development Program

Johnson Space Center
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three companies to develop such systems, aimed at providing a power source at the Moon’s South Pole for Artemis missions.  Three companies were awarded contracts in 2022 with plans to test their self-sustaining solar […]
Posted November 20, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Mission
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Technology
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA spacecraft nearly 10 million miles away. That’s 40 times farther than our Moon. That’s like using a laser pointer to track a moving dime from a mile away. That’s pretty precise. That laser — transmitted […]
Posted November 14, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The widespread commercial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, is no surprise to design engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing processes to make rocket parts.
Posted August 1, 2024
Game Changing Development Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The  primary objective of the Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration (CCTD) project is to mature the technology readiness of composite cryogenic propellant tanks at diameters that are suitable for future heavy lift vehicles and other in-space applications.
Posted August 1, 2024
Game Changing Development Program
Flight Opportunities Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
Posted June 20, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Game Changing Development Program
General
Small Satellite Missions
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Tech Demo Missions
After ten months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission’s key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations.  Swarms of satellites may one day be used in deep space exploration.
Posted May 29, 2024
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Artemis
Game Changing Development Program
General
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation The 3-Dimensional Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System (3D-MAT) is a thermal protection material developed as a critical component of Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for human deep space missions.
Posted May 23, 2024
Technology
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
General
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
NASA Directorates
This year will be a “BIG” year for several college and university teams as they research, design, and demonstrate novel inflatable systems configured for future lunar operations through a NASA-sponsored engineering competition.
Posted February 29, 2024
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