Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA is exploring potential partnerships for alternate use cases for the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) flight hardware, test facilities, and experienced personnel. Through a Request for Information for OSAM-1 Partnerships released Sept. 5, 2024, NASA seeks interest from U.S.

Posted September 6, 2024

Technology

NASA to Support DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing Program

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites provide communications, meteorological, national security, and other vital functions. Under this agreement, NASA will provide subject m

Posted September 5, 2024

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Biological & Physical Sciences

Flight Opportunities Program

Physical Sciences Program

Technology

Technology for Space Travel

First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket

For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket.

Posted August 28, 2024

Robotics

Ames Research Center

Astronauts

For Colleges & Universities

General

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Learning Resources

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Seeks Input for Astrobee Free-flying Space Robots

NASA is seeking input from American companies for the operation and use of a system of free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station as the agency continues to foster scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit for the benefit of all.

Posted August 27, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Centennial Challenges

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.

Posted August 19, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Centennial Challenges

Centennial Challenges News

Earth's Moon

Mars

Marshall Space Flight Center

Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16. In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food […]

Posted August 2, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Game Changing Development Program

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Additive Manufacturing Project Shapes Future for Agency, Industry Rocket Makers

The widespread commercial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, is no surprise to design engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing processes to make rocket parts.

Posted August 1, 2024

Game Changing Development Program

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration (CCTD)

The primary objective of the Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration (CCTD) project is to mature the technology readiness of composite cryogenic propellant tanks at diameters that are suitable for future heavy lift vehicles and other in-space applications.

Posted August 1, 2024

General

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges

This spring, NASA published a document overviewing almost 200 technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs – and asked the aerospace community to rate their importance.

Posted July 23, 2024

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

NASA Announces Leadership Changes

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Tuesday Dr. Kurt Vogel, associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is retiring from the agency.

Posted July 16, 2024