Space Technology Mission Directorate

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
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Space Technology Mission Directorate
New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding.
Posted April 22, 2024
Ames Research Center
General
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron […]
Posted April 17, 2024
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