Space Technology Mission Directorate

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Technology

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Mini Rover Team Is Packed for Lunar Journey

A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the lander that will deliver them to the Moon’s surface. Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]

Posted February 11, 2025

General

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

NASA Invites Media to Learn about Spacecraft Autonomous Tech Firsts

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), a technology that allows individual spacecraft to make independent decisions while collaborating with each other to achieve common goals – without human input.

Posted February 5, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Artemis

Flight Opportunities Program

Glenn Research Center

NASA Tests in Simulated Lunar Gravity to Prep Payloads for Moon

The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, it was a flight test aboard a vehicle adapted to simulate lunar gravity for approximately two minutes. The test began […]

Posted February 4, 2025

CubeSats

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

NASA Demonstrates Software ‘Brains’ Shared Across Satellite Swarms

Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This “pep talk” roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms.

Posted February 4, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Kennedy Space Center

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA to Talk Science, Tech Aboard Next Intuitive Machines Moon Flight

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the agency’s science and technology flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ second flight to the Moon.

Posted January 31, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

NASA Headquarters

NASA Space Tech’s Favorite Place to Travel in 2025: The Moon!

NASA Space Technology has big travel plans for 2025, starting with a trip to the near side of the Moon! Among ten groundbreaking NASA science and technology demonstrations, two technologies are on a ride to survey lunar regolith – also known as “Moon dust” – to better understand surface interactions with incoming lander spacecraft and […]

Posted January 24, 2025

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies

NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit of all. Chosen from companies and institutions across the United States, the 2025 Phase I awardees represent a wide range of aerospace concepts.

Posted January 10, 2025

Langley Research Center

General

NASA Centers & Facilities

Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP)