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NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon    

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations.
Posted July 24, 2026
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Ames Research Center
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Communications Technology

NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies

As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities.
Posted July 6, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
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Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Technology

NASA Tech and Science Bound for Low Earth Orbit on Commercial Launch

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
General
Ames Research Center
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Wallops Flight Facility

NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration mission will test the performance of a new small spacecraft platform designed to expand the capabilities of current small spacecraft.
Posted December 18, 2025
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
SBIR STTR
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA’s Two-in-One Satellite Propulsion Demo Begins In-Space Test

NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely maneuver in orbit, reach intended destinations across the solar system, and accomplish mission operations.    Two new micropropulsion technologies are being tested in space onboard a CubeSat called DUPLEX (Dual Prop
Posted December 17, 2025
Ames Research Center
General
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Starling and SpaceX Starlink Improve Space Traffic Coordination

As missions to low Earth orbit become more frequent, space traffic coordination remains a key element to efficiently operating in space. Different satellite operators using autonomous systems need to operate together and manage increasing workloads.
Posted March 26, 2025
Ames Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Venus

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute […]
Posted February 27, 2025
General
Ames Research Center
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media to Learn about Spacecraft Autonomous Tech Firsts

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), a technology that allows individual spacecraft to make independent decisions while collaborating with each other to achieve common goals – without human input.
Posted February 5, 2025
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Game Changing Development Program
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Demonstrates Software ‘Brains’ Shared Across Satellite Swarms  

Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This “pep talk” roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms.
Posted February 4, 2025
General
Ames Research Center
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Europa Clipper
Game Changing Development Program
Goddard Space Flight Center
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Science & Research
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
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Space Communications & Navigation Program
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Technology
Technology Demonstration
Technology Demonstration Missions Program

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024.
Posted October 30, 2024
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