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SBIR Advances Our Understanding of Clouds and the Carbon Cycle
Two NASA-funded Small Business Innovation Research contracts with Anasphere may enable researchers to better understand the water content of clouds and the carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere – helping to meet NASA mission needs while supporting this new business.
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SBIR Funding Yields Sensor to Better Understand Cloud Characteristics
Through a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract funded by NASA, researchers at Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC, Inc.) have developed prototypes of miniaturized cloud sensors for use on small, Unmanned Aircraft Systems and tethered blimps/balloons. Pending testing of the sensors, SPEC expects the technology to provide critical in situ cloud data that will help environmental scientists better understand the impact that clouds have on climate.
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Goddard and Northrop Grumman Partner To Answer Key Questions in Climate Change and Planetary Science
Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector. Through the agreement, researchers will collaborate on the development of advanced civil radar system architectures that can be leveraged into new space-based remote sensing instruments with revolutionary performance characteristics.
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Nanotailor, Inc. Licenses Goddard's Nanotube Fabrication Process
A new company, Nanotailor, has licensed NASA Goddard's unique single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) fabrication process with plans to make high-quality, low-cost SWCNTs available commercially. Potential markets for the technology are vast and include medical, manufacturing, imaging, and others.
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Two Agreements Prepare Goddard’s Cryogenic Cooling System for Commercial Use and Future NASA Missions
Agreements between NASA Goddard, Lockheed Martin (LM), and Lake Shore Cryotronics will prepare Goddard’s Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (CADR) technology for use by NASA missions and other aerospace organizations.
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Goddard Helps BAE Systems Build New SpaceWire-Based ASIC
A new Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA Goddard and BAE Systems will enable the company to build a new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design for Goddard’s SpaceWire link-and-switch (“router”) technology using technical support and consultation from Goddard researchers.
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Goddard’s Cable-Compliant Joint Technology Gets Patients Up and Walking with SAM
Enduro Medical Technology licensed NASA Goddard’s cable-compliant joint technology and compliant walker to develop the Secure Ambulation Module (SAM). SAM is a revolutionary rehabilitative walker enabling patients to stand and ambulate without the aid of a physical therapist. Enduro has also built and tested a prototype of a youth version of the walker (SAM-Y) and plans to develop an equine prototype for use in horse rehabilitation.
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Goddard and LogicNets Collaborate in the Building of a Test-bed Environment for an Intelligent Robotic System
A new agreement between NASA Goddard and LogicNets, Inc., is enabling collaborative development of an intelligence modeling and runtime environment for autonomous robotic systems. These intelligence models will be embedded into a variety of vehicles to allow control of the vehicles and also provide a means for testing new exploration technologies, procedures, and techniques.
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Platform-Independent Software Offers Flexibility and Ease When Controlling and Monitoring Remote Devices and Sensors
The Interoperable Remote Component (IRC) Architecture is a software application uniquely suited for controlling and monitoring remote devices and sensors and allowing all types of software systems to operate with one another.
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Merging Two Powerful Software Tools to Create a One-of-a-Kind Exploration Capability
Under this partnership, NASA Goddard is integrating the ILIADS software, a geospatial information system (GIS) it developed for lunar applications, with Questus™, a management and planning software tool developed by United Space Alliance (USA) for Space Shuttle operations. The integration will result in a new decision-making application that NASA can use to plan and carry out future robotic and crewed missions to the Moon.
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Goddard’s HHT To Be Used in RFID Demonstration System
Continuing a three-year technology transfer relationship with NASA Goddard, BCG Wireless has signed a second Space Act Agreement (SAA) with the Center and is embarking on collaborative work with Goddard researchers to develop a device that will demonstrate in real time the signal-cleaning capabilities of Goddard’s Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology applied to radio frequency identification (RFID) systems.
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STTR Company with Exploration-Related Technology Acquired by Microsoft
Vexcel Corp., a recipient of Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program funding from NASA Goddard, has been acquired by Microsoft Corporation as part of its Virtual Earth™ business unit. Vexcel’s many technologies, including a wireless sensor network technology developed under the STTR funding, will help the computing giant produce rich, dynamic sets of imagery and data that will be integrated into the new Live™ Search: Maps service, which is driven by the Virtual Earth geospatial data platform.
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Texas Instruments Uses NASA Facility to Test Advanced Spaceflight Electronics
As part of a 2006 Space Act Agreement (SAA), Texas Instruments (TI) will work with researchers at NASA Goddard’s Radiation Effects Facility (REF) to test and reengineer electronics that can withstand the effects of radiation in space. The agreement will enable TI to understand what would be required to engineer and market radiation-tolerant electronics to serve NASA and aerospace companies that manufacture spaceflight equipment.
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Aeroflex to Implement Goddard’s SpaceWire Router to Benefit Aerospace Electronics
NASA Goddard and Aeroflex, Inc., will develop a SpaceWire router, enabling a variety of applications to connect through the router and communicate with each other, benefiting spaceflight applications for both organizations and the aerospace industry as a whole.
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University of Oxford Commissions Goddard’s CHARMS Facility to Characterize Optics Used for a Ground-Based Infrared Instrument
NASA Goddard will use its state-of-the-art Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) facility to characterize material properties of a prismatic sample provided by the University of Oxford.
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Secure Ambulation Module (SAM) (video)
This 10-minute video describes the development of the Secure Ambulation Module by Enduro Medical Technology using Goddard's cable-compliant joint (CCJ) technology
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