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planet NASA Goddard and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has granted an exclusive license to Ocean Tomo Federal Services for a suite of more than 40 patented and patent-pending technologies to facilitate their transfer to the private sector for commercial application.
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planet 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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carbon nanotube 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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planet 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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Iridium success story GSFC Partners with Iridium to Benefit From Iridium’s “NEXT”-Generation Communication Capabilities
Under a Goddard IPP-funded agreement, Iridium Satellite Corporation will work with researchers at NASA Goddard to establish application needs and requirements for increasing the data rates available to suborbital missions and to provide the Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) function to NASA’s low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites via Iridium’s NEXT—the company’s next-generation constellation satellite program to be launched beginning in 2013.
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Goddard Signs New Reimbursable SAA with Genesis
A new reimbursable Space Act Agreement (SAA) between Goddard and Genesis Engineering Solutions, Inc. (Lanham, MD) may ultimately help NASA researchers address contamination issues critical to the success of instruments supporting NASA missions.
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SAM-Y A youth version the SAM Walker 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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National Cancer Institute and University of Maryland
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Goddard, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the University of Maryland (UM) is enabling collaborative development of nanoscale field effect transistor (NanoFET) platforms for the recognition of nucleic acid hybridization which can be used to identify key biomarkers in the detection of cancerous cell mutation.
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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Through a fully reimbursable Space Act Agreement (SAA) between Lockheed Martin (LM) and Goddard, scientists are collaborating on testing of Goddard’s “Navigator” GPS receiver to determine whether it will meet the navigation requirements of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program R Series (GOES-R) program (a joint effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] and NASA) when paired with LM’s specific antenna system implementation.
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Secure ambulation module (SAM) graphic 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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