Science-enabling Technology

Earth Science
Oceanography
Science-enabling Technology
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Technology Highlights
Rivers and streams wrap around Earth in complex networks millions of miles long, driving trade, nurturing ecosystems, and stocking critical reserves of freshwater. But the hydrologists who dedicate their professional lives to studying this immense web of waterways do so with a relatively limited set of tools.
Posted February 4, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals.
Posted January 7, 2025
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
The Universe
XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)
X-rays are radiated by matter hotter than one million Kelvin, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy can tell us about the composition of the matter and how fast and in what direction it is moving. Quantum calorimeters are opening this new window on the Universe.
Posted December 17, 2024
Ocean Worlds
Planetary Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Uncategorized
Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and beyond. The prime destinations for such exploration are bodies containing liquid water, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Posted December 3, 2024
CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System)
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Oceans
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A science antenna developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) is now in low-Earth orbit aboard MuSat2, a commercial remote-sensing satellite flown by the aerospace company Muon Space. The dual-frequency science antenna was originally developed as part of the Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Instrument (NGRx).
Posted November 12, 2024
Earth Science
Earth Science Technology Office
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—as much as 75% of the annual freshwater supply for some states.
Posted October 29, 2024
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A new instrument is using advanced detection techniques and leveraging an orbit with specific characteristics to increase our understanding of the Van Allen belts—regions surrounding Earth that contain energetic particles that can endanger both robotic and human space missions.
Posted September 17, 2024
Astrophysics
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A NASA-developed material made of carbon nanotubes will enable our search for exoplanets—some of which might be capable of supporting life.
Posted September 3, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science-enabling Technology
Space Communications Technology
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is on track to be completed on schedule. The panels are designed to power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool. The Roman team has two sets of […]
Posted August 26, 2024
Earth Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Uncategorized
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) instituted the Entrepreneurs Challenge to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals.
Posted August 20, 2024
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