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The technologies featured here are funded through one of Goddard's research and development programs or are considered vital to meeting NASA's science and space exploration goals.
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Atom Optics Come of Age |
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Spectrometer-on-a-Chip |
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Space-Age Materials One Atomic Layer at a Time
Technologists are advancing a new coating technology to ultimately reduce the cost and mass of telescope mirrors and radiators, and protect spacecraft from high-energy solar particles and meteorite impacts. + Read More |
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Inspiration from a Roll of Scotch® Tape
A roll of Scotch® tape inspires a Goddard scientist in his quest to develop less-expensive X-ray imaging optics. + Read More |
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NASA’s Technology Renaissance |
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Technology Could Revolutionize Space Telescopes |
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Measuring X-ray with Lobster Eyes |
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Mirror, Mirror Out in Space, How to Dust Off Your Face |
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Photon Sieve Demonstrated for First Time |
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Space Weather Center Adds ‘Ensemble Forecasting’ |
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Indomitable Astrophysicist Seeks to Revolutionize X-ray Astronomy |
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Goddard Technologist Achieves Milestone |
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New Alloy for Satellite Skeletons |
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New Look, New Name, Same Insightful Content |
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Goddard Wins ‘Paradigm-Shifting’ LaserComm Mission |
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Solving the Carbon Conundrum |
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Turning Science Fiction into Reality |
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‘It’s Up to Us’ |
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‘Miracle’ Material Promises Game-Changing Capabilities |
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WINCS ‘Factory’ Opens for Business |
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NASA selects Goddard scientists to build a revolutionary navigation and communication payload. |
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First-Ever Unibody Composite Telescope Developed |
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Attack of Atomic Oxygen: Molecule Slithers into the Spotlight |
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Blacker than Black |
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Riders on the Storm |
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Goddard Technology Saves Lives |
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Finding Your Niche |
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New Technology Promises to Give Researchers What They Want Most |
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NASA Achieves an Orbital First |
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Figueroa Commits 20 Percent of R&D Funds to Early-Stage Technologies |
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A Technological Game Changer? |
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Goddard-JHU Team Doubles Down to Prove Inflation
Scientists secure $5-million National Science Foundation grant to build new instrument that would search for evidence of cosmological inflation.
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Tracking Alien Worlds |
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Goddard Scientists Put Astrobiology Lab on the Map Jamie Elsila, Daniel Glavin, and Jason Dworkin are revealing the mysteries of life and getting plenty of attention doing so. + Read More |
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OSIRIS-REx Mission Selected for Concept Development Jamie Elsila, Daniel Glavin, and Jason Dworkin are revealing the mysteries of life and getting plenty of attention doing so. + Read More |
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Goddard to Lead the Largest Climate Experiment NASA Has Ever Launched Goddard plans to roll out Climate@Home initiative in April.Goddard plans to roll out Climate@Home initiative in April. + Read More |
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2009 Innovator of the Year Chief Technologist selects Jennifer Eigenbrode to receive “IRAD Innovator of the Year” award; Thomas Flatley receives honorable mention. + Read More |
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Analyzing Life on Mars Eigenbrode’s experiment will enhance the ability of the Sample Analysis at Mars to analyze large molecules on the red planet should they be found. + Read More |
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Fast Track to Space Three Goddard scientists are among the first to fly experiments on a new micro-satellite. + Read More |
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Wanted: A Free Ride into Space Goddard is given a green light to develop a payload carrier for the Orion Service Module. + Read More |
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Earth Science Takes Flight NASA’s unpiloted, high-altitude Global Hawk makes its maiden scientific flight, carrying two Goddard-developed experiments. + Read More |
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Formation in the Field A Goddard scientist will begin testing an instrument prototype at an unusual test site. + Read More |
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Goddard Engineer Demonstrates Relative Navigation During the recent Hubble Servicing Mission, a Goddard team shows that spacecraft can operate in close proximity to one another with little or no human intervention. + Read More |
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Space Technology Could Help Early Detection of Breast Cancer A Goddard scientist wins National Institutes of Health funding to develop a platform that could detect the presence of breast cancer. + Read More |
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High-Tech Spelunking Goddard engineers build the CAVE, a 3D immersive environment that engineers can use to visualize complex spacecraft systems before committing to final designs. + Read More |
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Early-Stage Innovations: A Glimpse at the Future? Technologists are researching the next best technologies that could provide revolutionary new capabilities. + Read More |
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A Fortuitous Meeting A Goddard team develops flexible data-compression technology that will fly for the first time on the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. + Read More |
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Perspectives on Technology Center Director Rob Strain speaks out. + Read More |
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Did Inflation Happen? Goddard scientist builds instrument to prove cosmology theory. + Read More |
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Communicating by Laser Beam LADEE mission includes an optical-communications demonstration managed by Goddard. + Read More |
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An R&D Success Story SXS team wins 'IRAD Innovator of the Year' award. + Read More |
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Running Interference Radiometer team tests algorithms to enable collection of soil-moisture data. + Read More |
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Measuring Dust Motes Instrument prototype could help scientists understand lunar and Martian dust problem. + Read More |
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Opening a New Frontier in X-ray Astronomy? Goddard team wins Phase-A study award for possible SMEX mission. + Read More |
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The Story of Life As Recorded in a Rock Innovator is developing a simplified sample-processing method for finding organic compounds on Mars. + Read More |
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SpaceCube to Debut in Flight Demonstration |
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Zhang’s Glass Kitchen Goddard team is expected to begin producing NuSTAR mirror segments this fall. + Read More |
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Preserving Goddard’s Preeminence in Detector Technologies Two different advanced detector technologies are producing new science results and a third is finding a possible application with Homeland Security. + Read More |
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‘Rad-Hard’ ASICs New Sciences and Exploration Directorate Deputy Director discusses impact of decadal survey on Earth science community. + Read More |
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An Interview with Peter Hildebrand New Sciences and Exploration Directorate Deputy Director discusses impact of decadal survey on Earth science community. + Read More |
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Going Beyond the ‘A’ Train Goddard scientist Mark Schoeberl develops a concept for the proposed Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems mission. + Read More |
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R&D-Developed Instrument Shows Versatility in Ice Studies Principal Investigator Bryan Blair uses vegetation lidar to measure Greenland’s rapidly thinning ice sheets. + Read More |
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Goddard’s New Innovators The work of two new innovators may one day reduce the size of spacecraft systems and components. + Read More |
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Taking on Moondust Dust mitigation will be a problem for lunar explorers. Goddard technologists investigate ways to control it. + Read More |
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Promoting Composites Newly formed GoCOMET team promotes the use of composite materials in spacecraft design. + Read More |
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IRAD Funding Leads to Success Goddard technologist wins lunar sortie science mission study. + Read More |
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Communicating Via X-rays World’s first X-ray communication system demonstrated. + Read More |
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First Light IRAD funding supports development of larger dust chamber. + Read More |
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Leshin Talks Technology Director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate discusses her views on where technology is headed. + Read More |
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Savoring Success Wavefront Sensing and Control Group demonstrates JWST enabling technology and markets capability to others. + Read More |
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Dust Chamber to Open This Summer IRAD funding supports development of larger dust chamber.. + Read More |
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Carrying on the Tradition Scientists hope to build instrument to search for cosmological inflation. + Read More |
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The Dust Busters Scientists hope to measure the Moon’s dusty environment. + Read More |
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Next-Generation Microcalorimeters IRAD award helps to advance technology readiness. + Read More |
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The Methane Mystery Goddard invests in new laser to detect gas on the Martian surface. + Read More |
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SPHEREs in Space Goddard technologist plans to test experimental algorithm on tiny satellites. + Read More |
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State-of-Technology Center Director Ed Weiler offers his views about the role of Goddard technology. + Read More |
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Devil’s in the Details: Goddard-developed Mars rover instrument offers design challenges. + Read More |
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CULPRiT Technology Successfully Demonstrated: Computer chip could lead to more efficient spacecraft design. + Read More |
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Finding the Holy Grail Goddard scientists discover what happens when black holes merge. + Read More |
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CSI: Move Over! New forensic analyzer to debut in a simulated crime scene. + Read More |
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Laser Experiment Ushers in New Era NASA demonstrates first two-way exchange of laser signals over vast distances in space. + Read More |
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The Secret’s in the Sauce Goddard scientist develops a technique to manufacture super-thin curved mirrors. + Read More |
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Turning Lunar Regolith into Oxygen Goddard technologist develops prototype that produces oxygen from lunar-like soil. + Read More |
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Driving Down Mission Costs Goddard technologists deliver new flight software package to lunar mission. + Read More |
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Internet in Space Goddard technologists demonstrate an end-to-end Internet-based communications system. + Read More |
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Inspiration from a Computer Chip Goddard technologists delivers the first single-crystal silicon mirror. + Read More |
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High-Tech Robot Skin A Goddard scientist is leading the way for space exploration by developing high-tech skin for robots. + Read More |
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New Software Changes Wireless Technology Functions on Demand NASA is revolutionizing software defined radio, a wireless technology that allows electronic devices to perform new functions on demand. + Read More |
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Open for Business New exoterrain simulates Martian landscape. + Read More |
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Phantoms From the Sand Martian dust devils can be much larger than those on Earth. Could they be dangerous? Researchers track them to find out. + Read more |
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NASA Develops a Nugget to Search for Life in Space Astrobiologists, who search for evidence of life on other planets, may find a proposed Neutron/Gamma ray Geologic Tomography (NUGGET) instrument to be one of the most useful tools in their toolbelt. + Read more |
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Goddard Technologists to Lead Three ST9 Concept Definition Studies Three Goddard technologists will lead year long concept studies to define space experiments that demonstrate and validate advanced technology for future science missions. + Read more |
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Sensor Web Simulation Investigates Technique to Improve Prediction of Pollution Across the Globe NASA tries to tie together satellites and stations on the ground to help track air quality and improve life on Earth. + Read more |
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NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms Robots change their shape to flow over rocy terrain. + Read more |
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Goddard Team Pushes Technology Goddard's Space Technology 5 (ST5) Project is building and testing a miniaturization concept with three small satellites. + Read more |
Featured Technologies
Goddard technologists win new work, secure follow-on funding to mature new technologies, formulate concepts, and validate new instrument concepts in flight demonstrations — successes that benefit Goddard and the scientific community as a whole.
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- NASA Official: Peter Hughes
- Curator: Lisa Kane
- Page Last Updated: October 30, 2012