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NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project aims to dramatically improve the computing power of spacecraft. Missions need processors that can withstand the harsh space environment, so they use chips developed years ago that are hardy and reliable.
Posted May 12, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
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Technology for Space Travel
For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions.
Posted May 8, 2026
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Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
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With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A tangle of tubes and wires spiral away from the system, where nearly 270 sensors and 1,000 […]
Posted May 8, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
Through NASA, a university-designed small spacecraft is paving the way to studying particles, known as neutrinos, that move through the universe at near-light speeds. The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics CubeSat, known as SNAPPY, launched at 12 a.m.
Posted May 7, 2026
General
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Technology
As NASA looks to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond, researchers must develop materials capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures found in space and on other planets and their moons.
Posted May 6, 2026
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Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
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Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hydrogen and helium-3 from lunar soil, known as regolith.
Posted May 4, 2026
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Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
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On every crewed mission, NASA packs pouches of a potentially life-saving liquid in its cargo, known as IV (or intravenous) fluid. A simple mix of sodium chloride and purified water, it can treat up to 30% of medical conditions in flight, resolving things like dehydration, burns, and more. Crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit into […]
Posted April 23, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
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Kennedy Space Center
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Technology
Technology and science demonstrations, supported by various NASA industry collaborations and agency developments, are set to launch to low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the company’s Transporter-16 commercial rideshare mission.
Posted March 27, 2026
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High-Tech Computing
Technology
Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or moon centered trajectories, libration point trajectories, planet-moon transfers and tours, and all types of interplanetary and asteroid/comet missions.
Posted March 24, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Technology
As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets far beyond our solar system. A key element of this research involves observing reflected light from exoplanets, which can reveal indicators of Earth-like features such as water and oxygen.
Posted March 24, 2026
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