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NASA engineers will test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. Called lidar, the instruments could also be used to improve models of the Moon’s shape and aid the search for Artemis landing sites. Similar to sonar, but using light instead of sound, lidars calculate distances […]
Posted March 19, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Spinoffs
Technology
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Globally, nearly all wildfires start with a human ignition source – not lightning strikes or wildlife encountering power equipment.
Posted March 19, 2024
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
NASA selected 45 student essays as semifinalists of its 2024 Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
Posted March 15, 2024
Spinoffs
Glenn Research Center
Technology
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
In the 80 years since the shocking collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington, engineers have designed suspended structures to minimize their universal weakness: resonance. If not designed to deal with oscillations caused by forces like wind, the frequency of these forces would cause tensions to build and inevitably break the structure.
Posted March 12, 2024
Technology
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative.
Posted February 13, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Studying Exoplanets
Technology
The Search for Life
A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar system […]
Posted January 31, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
SBIR STTR
Technology
Transitioning cutting-edge research from the lab to life-changing technology in the market is no easy feat and the cost of failure is high, especially for small businesses.
Posted January 18, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fund ideas that could  innovate for the benefit of all and transform future agency missions. From proposals to explore low Earth orbit to the stars, the 13 concepts chosen stem from companies and institutions across the United States. The NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) […]
Posted January 4, 2024
General
Game Changing Development Program
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology for Living in Space
NASA is hosting a virtual industry forum on Nov. 13, 2023, to introduce the agency’s Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration Request for Information (RFI).
Posted November 6, 2023
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