Space Technology Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Directorates
SBIR STTR
NASA will award funding to nearly 250 small business teams to develop new technologies to address agency priorities, such as carbon neutrality and energy storage for various applications in space and on Earth.
Posted June 12, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8 when it launched from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Posted June 11, 2024
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Space technology might look a bit different decades from now. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program studies innovative, technically credible, advanced projects that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace.
Posted May 31, 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
Technology Transfer
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency’s Technology Transfer Program.
Posted May 23, 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
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development.
Posted May 2, 2024
Psyche Mission
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records.
Posted April 25, 2024
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
General
Small Satellite Missions
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is led by the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
Posted April 23, 2024
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