Space Technology Mission Directorate

DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time.

Posted November 17, 2023

General

Game Changing Development Program

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology for Living in Space

NASA Invites Stakeholders to STMD’s LIFT-1 Industry Forum

NASA is hosting a virtual industry forum on Nov. 13, 2023, to introduce the agency’s Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration Request for Information (RFI).

Posted November 6, 2023

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Game Changing Development Program

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

NASA Directorates

NASA Seeks Input for Future Lunar Surface Resource Utilization Demo

As NASA ushers in an exciting era of long-term exploration on the Moon with Artemis, new strategies are being formulated to determine how technology, infrastructure, and operations will function together as a cohesive and cross-cutting system.

Posted November 6, 2023

NASA Directorates

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Workshop to Highlight NASA’s Support for Mobility, In-Space Servicing

NASA leadership, including Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, will participate in a workshop on space mobility and in-space servicing on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the University of Maryland in College Park. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST, the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC) workshop runs through Wednesday, Nov. 8.

Posted November 2, 2023

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software

The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope’s 21-foot segmented mirror that unfurled and assembled itself in space.

Posted October 31, 2023

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Flight Opportunities Program

NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings

University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up by the exhaust from a rocket-powered lander on the Moon or Mars. The four tethered flights on Astrobotic’s Xodiac rocket-powered lander took place in Mojave, California, from Sept. 12 through Oct. 4, 2023.

Posted October 27, 2023

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design

Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the […]

Posted October 26, 2023

NASA en español

E-Books

Learning Resources

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Commander Callie Continues Moon Mission in NASA’s New Graphic Novel

Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA’s First Woman graphic novel series.

Posted October 26, 2023

General

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

Low-Earth Orbit Economy

Small Satellite Missions

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

SmallSats Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Tech Demo Missions

Follow NASA’s Starling Swarm in Real Time

NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space. The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing a group of small satellites ability to coordinate and cooperate independently without real-time updates from mission control.

Posted October 24, 2023

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Makes It Easier to Find Assistive Technologies for Licensing

NASA develops a variety of technologies to explore space and beyond for the benefit of humanity. One measure of its success is the impact on the daily lives of millions of people with injuries and disabilities who are assisted with innovative treatments and products developed from NASA-derived technology. After all, it was thanks to NASA’s […]

Posted October 17, 2023