Space Technology Mission Directorate

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation.
Posted January 8, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.
Posted January 8, 2025
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Have you ever wanted to find all your favorite NASA technology in one place? NASA stakeholders did, too! We listened to your feedback, brainstormed user-focused features, and created the most robust technology system to date.
Posted December 19, 2024
General
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
With more than 25 years of operations, the International Space Station continues to symbolize discovery and cooperation for the benefit of humanity.
Posted December 18, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
During the flight test with Blue Origin, seven technologies developed by NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program will study regolith mechanics and lunar dust transport in a simulated lunar gravity environment.
Posted December 13, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Aeronautics
Center Innovation Fund
Flight Innovation
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The most effective way to prove a new idea is to start small, test, learn, and test again. A team of researchers developing an atmospheric probe at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are taking that approach. The concept could offer future scientists a potentially better and more economical way to collect data […]
Posted December 11, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
Get Involved
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Opportunities For U.S. Citizens to Get Involved
Opportunities to Contribute to NASA Missions & Get Involved
Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states.
Posted December 6, 2024
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Ocean Worlds
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds.
Posted November 20, 2024
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
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