Technology Highlights

Ocean Worlds
Planetary Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
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Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and beyond. The prime destinations for such exploration are bodies containing liquid water, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Posted December 3, 2024
CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System)
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Oceans
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A science antenna developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) is now in low-Earth orbit aboard MuSat2, a commercial remote-sensing satellite flown by the aerospace company Muon Space. The dual-frequency science antenna was originally developed as part of the Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Instrument (NGRx).
Posted November 12, 2024
Earth Science
Earth Science Technology Office
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—as much as 75% of the annual freshwater supply for some states.
Posted October 29, 2024
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A new instrument is using advanced detection techniques and leveraging an orbit with specific characteristics to increase our understanding of the Van Allen belts—regions surrounding Earth that contain energetic particles that can endanger both robotic and human space missions.
Posted September 17, 2024
Astrophysics
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
A NASA-developed material made of carbon nanotubes will enable our search for exoplanets—some of which might be capable of supporting life.
Posted September 3, 2024
Earth Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Uncategorized
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) instituted the Entrepreneurs Challenge to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals.
Posted August 20, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Planetary Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Magnetic fields are everywhere in our solar system. They originate from the Sun, planets, and moons, and are carried throughout interplanetary space by solar wind.
Posted August 6, 2024
Planetary Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
The Solar System
“Follow the water!”  The solar system is full of water in different states, from the Sun’s water vapor to the ice of Pluto and beyond. Water is not only linked to the possibility to sustain life, it is also interesting for its own geological properties and potential uses. For example, ice on the Moon and Mars could support human exploration.
Posted June 4, 2024
Earth Science
Earth Science Technology Office
Science-enabling Technology
Technology
Technology Highlights
Wildfires
NASA’s “Wildfire Digital Twin” project will equip firefighters and wildfire managers with a superior tool for monitoring wildfires and predicting harmful air pollution events and help researchers observe global wildfire trends more precisely.
Posted May 21, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Science-enabling Technology
Studying Exoplanets
Technology Highlights
The Universe
When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light is crucial to get the most out of a scientific mission.
Posted May 7, 2024
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