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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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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Perspectives on Technology
Center Director Rob Strain speaks out.
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Did Inflation Happen?
Goddard scientist builds instrument to prove cosmology theory.
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Communicating by Laser Beam
LADEE mission includes an optical-communications demonstration managed by Goddard.
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An R&D Success Story
SXS team wins 'IRAD Innovator of the Year' award.
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Running Interference
Radiometer team tests algorithms to enable collection of soil-moisture data.
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Measuring Dust Motes
Instrument prototype could help scientists understand lunar and Martian dust problem.
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Opening a New Frontier in X-ray Astronomy?
Goddard team wins Phase-A study award for possible SMEX mission.
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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.
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SpaceCube to Debut in Flight Demonstration
Hybrid computer will fly during the Hubble servicing mission.
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Zhang’s Glass Kitchen
Goddard team is expected to begin producing NuSTAR mirror segments this fall.
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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.
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‘Rad-Hard’ ASICs
New Sciences and Exploration Directorate Deputy Director discusses impact of decadal survey on Earth science community.
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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.
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Beyond the ‘A’ Train

Going Beyond the ‘A’ Train
Goddard scientist Mark Schoeberl develops a concept for the proposed Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems mission.
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Versatility in Ice Studies
R&D-Developed Instrument Shows Versatility in Ice Studies
Principal Investigator Bryan Blair uses vegetation lidar to measure Greenland’s rapidly thinning ice sheets.
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Goddard's New Innovators
Goddard’s New Innovators
The work of two new innovators may one day reduce the size of spacecraft systems and components.
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Talking on Moondust
Taking on Moondust
Dust mitigation will be a problem for lunar explorers. Goddard technologists investigate ways to control it.
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Promoting Composites
Promoting Composites
Newly formed GoCOMET team promotes the use of composite materials in spacecraft design.
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IRAD Funding Leads to Success
IRAD Funding Leads to Success
Goddard technologist wins lunar sortie science mission study.
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Communicating Via X-rays
Communicating Via X-rays
World’s first X-ray communication system demonstrated.
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First Light
First Light
IRAD funding supports development of larger dust chamber.
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Leshin Talks Technology
Leshin Talks Technology
Director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate discusses her views on where technology is headed.
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Savoring Success
Savoring Success
Wavefront Sensing and Control Group demonstrates JWST enabling technology and markets capability to others.
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Dust Chamber to Open This Summer
Dust Chamber to Open This Summer
IRAD funding supports development of larger dust chamber..
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Carrying on the Tradition
Carrying on the Tradition
Scientists hope to build instrument to search for cosmological inflation.
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The Dust Busters
The Dust Busters
Scientists hope to measure the Moon’s dusty environment.
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Next-Generation Microcalorimeters
Next-Generation Microcalorimeters
IRAD award helps to advance technology readiness.
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The Methane Mystery
The Methane Mystery
Goddard invests in new laser to detect gas on the Martian surface.
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SPHEREs in Space
SPHEREs in Space
Goddard technologist plans to test experimental algorithm on tiny satellites.
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Center Director Ed Weiler Speaks Out
State-of-Technology
Center Director Ed Weiler offers his views about the role of Goddard technology.
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Devil’s in the Details
Devil’s in the Details:
Goddard-developed Mars rover instrument offers design challenges.
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CULPRiT Technology Successfully Demonstrated

CULPRiT Technology Successfully Demonstrated:
Computer chip could lead to more efficient spacecraft design.
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Finding the Holy Grail

Finding the Holy Grail
Goddard scientists discover what happens when black holes merge.
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CSI: Mover Over

CSI: Move Over!
New forensic analyzer to debut in a simulated crime scene.
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Laser Experiment Ushers in New Era

Laser Experiment Ushers in New Era
NASA demonstrates first two-way exchange of laser signals over vast distances in space.
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The Secret's in the Sauce

The Secret’s in the Sauce
Goddard scientist develops a technique to manufacture super-thin curved mirrors.
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Turning Lunar Regolith into Oxygen

Turning Lunar Regolith into Oxygen
Goddard technologist develops prototype that produces oxygen from lunar-like soil.
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Driving Down Mission Costs

Driving Down Mission Costs
Goddard technologists deliver new flight software package to lunar mission.
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Internet in Space Internet in Space
Goddard technologists demonstrate an end-to-end Internet-based communications system.
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Inspiration from a Computer Chip Inspiration from a Computer Chip
Goddard technologists delivers the first single-crystal silicon mirror.
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High Tech Robot Skin High-Tech Robot Skin
A Goddard scientist is leading the way for space exploration by developing high-tech skin for robots.
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Software Changes Wireless 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.
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MERS open for business Open for Business
New exoterrain simulates Martian landscape.
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Phantoms from the Sand 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.
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Nasa Develops a Nugget 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.
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ST9 Concept Definition Studies 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.
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Sensor Web 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.
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TETWalker robot
NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms
Robots change their shape to flow over rocy terrain.
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Space Technology 5 Project Goddard Team Pushes Technology
Goddard's Space Technology 5 (ST5) Project is building and testing a miniaturization concept with three small satellites.
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Last Updated: 10/30/2009