Social entrepreneurship and space exploration have much in common, and NASA's needs aren't that different from the needs of many communities all over the world. Innovative collaboration could change not just the universe but also the world.
Spinoff is NASA's annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, NASA has facilitated the transfer of its technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy.
Since 1976, Spinoff has featured between 40 and 50 of these commercial products annually. Spinoff maintains a searchable database of every technology published since its inception.
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NASA Spinoffs Help Fight Coronavirus, Clean Pollution, Grow Food, MoreDESMOND YUEN
NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research – which show up in daily life. The agency’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.
“The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos but realized throughout our country – from hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to world-leading climate science, understanding the universe and our place within it, to technology transfers that make life easier for folks around the world,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “As we combat the coronavirus pandemic and promote environmental justice and sustainability, NASA technology is essential to address humanity’s greatest challenges.”
Spinoff 2022 features more than 45 companies using NASA technology to advance manufacturing techniques, detoxify polluted soil, improve weather forecasting, and even clean the air to slow the spread of viruses, including coronavirus.
"NASA's technology portfolio contains many innovations that not only enable exploration but also address challenges and improve life here at home," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. "We’ve captured these examples of successful commercialization of NASA technology and research, not only to share the benefits of the space program with the public, but to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs."
This year in Spinoff, readers will learn more about:
How companies use information from NASA’s vertical farm to sustainably grow fresh produce
New ways that technology developed for insulation in space keeps people warm in the great outdoors
How a system created for growing plants in space now helps improve indoor air quality and reduces the spread of airborne viruses like coronavirus
How phase-change materials – originally developed to help astronauts wearing spacesuits – absorb, hold, and release heat to help keep race car drivers cool
Social entrepreneurship and space exploration have much in common, and NASA's needs aren't that different from the needs of many communities all over the world. Innovative collaboration could change not just the universe but also the world.
Spinoff is NASA's annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, NASA has facilitated the transfer of its technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy.
Since 1976, Spinoff has featured between 40 and 50 of these commercial products annually. Spinoff maintains a searchable database of every technology published since its inception.
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto
NASA Spinoffs Help Fight Coronavirus, Clean Pollution, Grow Food, MoreDESMOND YUEN
NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research – which show up in daily life. The agency’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.
“The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos but realized throughout our country – from hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to world-leading climate science, understanding the universe and our place within it, to technology transfers that make life easier for folks around the world,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “As we combat the coronavirus pandemic and promote environmental justice and sustainability, NASA technology is essential to address humanity’s greatest challenges.”
Spinoff 2022 features more than 45 companies using NASA technology to advance manufacturing techniques, detoxify polluted soil, improve weather forecasting, and even clean the air to slow the spread of viruses, including coronavirus.
"NASA's technology portfolio contains many innovations that not only enable exploration but also address challenges and improve life here at home," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. "We’ve captured these examples of successful commercialization of NASA technology and research, not only to share the benefits of the space program with the public, but to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs."
This year in Spinoff, readers will learn more about:
How companies use information from NASA’s vertical farm to sustainably grow fresh produce
New ways that technology developed for insulation in space keeps people warm in the great outdoors
How a system created for growing plants in space now helps improve indoor air quality and reduces the spread of airborne viruses like coronavirus
How phase-change materials – originally developed to help astronauts wearing spacesuits – absorb, hold, and release heat to help keep race car drivers cool
The optics/photonics sector has vastly expanded our knowledge of the world and our capacity to undertake initiatives on a global scale. This inexhaustible field of innovation has become a key economic development driver in the 21st century, particularly in the Quebec City region. http://quebecinternational.ca/key-industries/
Kansas State University's Launch A Business program works with entrepreneurs to teach them about all aspects of business. MeltPoint Environmental won the first year's $50,000 award of cash and in-kind prizes.
A powerpoint summary of technologies highlighted in NASA's 2010 edition of Spinoff, which features recent significant research and development activities across NASA and the successful transfer of NASA technologies to the marketplace. This presentation summarizes the commercial technologies profiled in Spinoff 2010; the full text is available for download at http://spinoff.nasa.gov, and print copies can be requested by calling (301) 286-0561 or through spinoff@sti.nasa.gov.
The optics/photonics sector has vastly expanded our knowledge of the world and our capacity to undertake initiatives on a global scale. This inexhaustible field of innovation has become a key economic development driver in the 21st century, particularly in the Quebec City region. http://quebecinternational.ca/key-industries/
Kansas State University's Launch A Business program works with entrepreneurs to teach them about all aspects of business. MeltPoint Environmental won the first year's $50,000 award of cash and in-kind prizes.
A powerpoint summary of technologies highlighted in NASA's 2010 edition of Spinoff, which features recent significant research and development activities across NASA and the successful transfer of NASA technologies to the marketplace. This presentation summarizes the commercial technologies profiled in Spinoff 2010; the full text is available for download at http://spinoff.nasa.gov, and print copies can be requested by calling (301) 286-0561 or through spinoff@sti.nasa.gov.
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(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
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nasa top 20 inventions
1. Spinoff is NASA’s premier annual publication, featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For
more than 40 years, NASA has facilitated the transfer of its technology to the private sector. The resulting
commercialization contributes to the development of products and services in the fields of health and medicine,
consumer goods, transportation, public safety, environment and resources management, computer technology,
and industrial productivity.
The following is a list of the top 20 spinoff technologies produced over the past 5 years, based on factors such
as quality of life, economic benefit, and value back to NASA.
• A water filtration system providing safe, affordable drinking water throughout
the world is the result of work done by Marshall Space Flight Center engineers
who are creating the Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support
System, a complex system of devices intended to sustain the astronauts living on
the International Space Station. The devices, available through Water Security
Corporation Inc., of Sparks, Nevada, make use of the available resources by turning
wastewater from respiration, sweat, and urine into drinkable water.
• Remote-controlled tractors with a margin of error of one centimeter are the result
of work done at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory by scientists working to design
ultra-precise GPS for use on a satellite probe sent into orbit to test two unverified
predictions of Einstein’s theory of relativity. These tractor-steering systems, sold by
Menlo Park, California-based Novariant Corporation, are in use around the world,
and their precision and ability to run unmanned for long stretches of time yield
increased crops, reduced chemical use, and less wasted water. A Small Business
Technology Transfer (STTR) grant through Langley Research Center facilitated the
product’s development.
• A bacterial spore-detection system developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
for cleaning Mars-bound spacecraft is now employed by Universal Detection
Technology of Beverly Hills, California, as an anthrax detection system. It requires
very little in the way of operating costs, and has a high reliability factor, with low
susceptibility to false alarms. The Anthrax Smoke Detector is in use worldwide in
government buildings, offices, airports, convention centers, hotels, casinos, and
postal facilities.
• Langley Research Center engineers developed a low-cost device that creates electrical
energy out of mechanical energy. It is now in widespread use as a wireless light
switch and contributing to renovation and reconstruction efforts in areas affected
by Hurricane Katrina. Face International Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia, holds
several of the NASA licenses, and is mass-producing the devices at a new, dedicated
plant in Taiwan.
• Advances in space suit design by ILC Dover Inc., of Frederica, Delaware, have
resulted in such widespread applications as therapeutic cooling and heating suits;
safe, efficient pharmaceutical manufacturing; new, simple-to-use, life-saving gas
and chemical masks; and lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicles. Since the early Apollo
contract, ILC Dover, in conjunction with Hamilton Standard, of Windsor Locks,
Connecticut, has designed and produced space suits for Johnson Space Center-
based astronauts.
Top 20 New
NASA Spinoff Technologies
2. • A environmentally friendly remediation solution developed at Kennedy Space
Center to restore grounds contaminated by chemical compounds used during
rocket launches in the early days of the Space Program is now cleaning up areas
around the United States that have been impacted by high concentrations of
harmful chlorinated solvents. Commercially, the remediation solution applies to
contamination sites created by dye and paint manufacturers, dry cleaners, chemical
manufacturers, metal cleaning and degreasing facilities, leather-tanning facilities,
pharmaceutical manufacturers, adhesive and aerosol manufacturers, among others.
The solution was developed with collaborative support from the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, GeoSyntec Inc., and NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
Program. It has been licensed to several companies, including Weston Solutions of
West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Toxicological and Environmental Associates, of
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Tiny light-emitting diode (LED) chips used to grow plants on the space shuttle
and the International Space Station are lighting the way for wound healing and
chronic pain alleviation on Earth. Developed with Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) support from Marshall Space Flight Center, the LED chips have
made their way into a non-invasive, handheld, portable medical device called
WARP-10. This device is intended for the temporary relief of minor muscle and
joint pain, arthritis, stiffness, and muscle spasms, and was initially designed to
provide armed forces personnel with immediate first aid care for minor injuries and
pain. A consumer version sharing the same power and properties of the military
model is also available, from Quantum Devices Inc., of Barneveld, Wisconsin.
• A Goddard Space Flight Center researcher developed cable-compliant mechanisms
for use in sounding rocket assemblies and robotics which have now been
implemented into an adjustable patient harness system used to treat patients
recovering from traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and hip or knee
replacement, as well as aid U.S. service personnel with spinal cord or traumatic
brain injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The
device provides patients with the opportunity to stand and walk in a safe and
controlled environment without constant assistance from a therapist. The product
is available through Enduro Medical Technologies, of East Hartford, Connecticut.
• A robotic vision system designed at Goddard Space Flight Center to determine
the position and orientation of bar code targets without the use of lasers led to
the development of sophisticated crash test dummies and computer crash test
models that provide repeatable, computerized evaluations of laceration injuries.
Triangle Research & Development Corporation, of Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina, collaborated with Goddard through a Small Business Innovation
Research Grant (SBIR). These dummies and models are now being used by
automobile and component manufacturers in vehicle testing worldwide.
3. • After a hailstorm damaged the foam insulation covering the external tank on the
space shuttle (while on the launch pad), Kennedy Space Center developed a scaling
and measurement imaging device to determine the exact scale of the damage
incurred. This device, manufactured by Armor Holdings Inc., of Jacksonville,
Florida, is now very helpful in law enforcement, as it is being used to shoot scaled
photos of blood patterns, graffiti, and other criminal evidence.
• A mineral identification tool that was developed under a Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) grant for NASA’s Mars Rover Technology Development program
is now serving as a powerful tool for U.S. law enforcement agencies and military
personnel to identify suspicious liquid and solid substances. The tool can measure
unknown substances through glass and plastic packaging materials. The device, a
portable Raman spectrometer and fiber-optic probe that could be used on a Mars
exploration rover, was designed by EIC Laboratories Inc. in collaboration with
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The commercial product, the InPhotote, is
manufactured and distributed by InPhotonics Inc., a spinoff company of EIC
Laboratories, co-located in Norwood, Massachusetts.
• Marshall Space Flight Center testing of metallic materials in an undercooled
state has contributed to the development of Liquidmetal, a new type of metal
that is twice as strong as titanium but behaves more like a plastic with its flexible,
moldable properties. Liquidmetal is found in many commercial products, including
sporting goods (baseball bats and hockey sticks), jewelry and wristwatches, cell
phones, orthopedic implants, and coatings for industry. Swiss luxury watchmaker
TAG Heuer features the high-performance alloy as the casing of a special edition,
state-of-the-art chronograph timepiece, while Vertu Limited, a luxury personal
communication company, features the alloy in the bezel and battery cover of its
Vertu Ascent phone collection. Liquidmetal is manufactured by Liquidmetal
Technologies Inc., of Lake Forest, California.
• A collaborative effort between Langley Research Center, other government
agencies, and private industry resulted in an advancement in aviation safety that
provides pilots with a synthetic vision system. This system provides a real-time,
forward-looking depiction of terrain in 3-D, directly on the primary flight display,
regardless of the time of day or weather conditions. It is sold by Chelton Flight
Systems, of Boise, Idaho, and is flying in hundreds of small planes all over the
United States and abroad.
• A geospatial information systems company, NVision Inc., of Stennis Space Center,
Mississippi, harnessed NASA’s remote-sensing satellite information to provide
innovative geospatial solutions for a variety of applications, including: a crop
prescription service for farmers; a disaster management networking tool for local,
state, and Federal governments; and an educational service for young farmers.
• A tunable diode laser-based gas sensor developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
to explore the possibility of life-giving elements on Mars is now employed on
flying aircraft as a means to measure water vapor and thus deliver real-time weather
forecasting and help pilots avoid dangerous weather conditions. The sensor,
manufactured by SpectraSensors Inc., of San Dimas, California, is used by major
airlines and is installed on United Parcel Service (UPS) planes, which have been
responsible for providing wind and temperature data to meteorologists since 1994.
4. • A remote command and control system designed by Glenn Research Center
engineers to help NASA run experiments on the International Space Station is
the core technology behind an intelligent oven that consumers can program to
start cooking dinner before they get home, via a cell phone, PDA, or Internet
connection. With combined cooling and heating capabilities, the ConnectIo
stainless-steel professional series oven provides convenience and healthy living
for today’s active lifestyles. The technology, manufactured by TMIO LLC
of Cleveland, Ohio, was recognized as one of TIME magazine’s “Coolest
Inventions” and has made numerous appearances on television programs,
including CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” “Good Morning America,” “The View,”
and ESPN’s “Cold Pizza.”
• A low-cost, lightweight parachute developed with Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) assistance from Langley Research Center is being used to lower
small airplanes safely to the ground in emergency situations. Manufactured by
Ballistic Recovery Systems Inc., of St. Paul, Minnesota, the parachute has helped
save many lives, according to the company’s Website.
• A Mars Exploration Rover prototype robot and an autonomous stair-climbing
robot created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been further developed into
commercial tactical reconnaissance robots that are being used in Afghanistan
and Iraq to help U.S. troops clear caves and bunkers, search buildings, cross
live antipersonnel mine fields, and deal with the dangers posed by improvised
explosive devices. Several systems have been damaged or completely destroyed
in seeking out improvised explosive devices in Iraq, but have been credited with
saving lives in doing so. The commercial offspring, known as the PackBot Tactical
Mobile Robot, is manufactured by iRobot Inc., of Burlington, Massachusetts.
• A Johnson Space Center-private industry Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) partnership to develop technology for autonomous rendezvous and
docking of space vehicles to service satellites has resulted in a new eye-tracking
device for LASIK surgery, called LADARTracker. Eye-tracking devices must
be able to sample the eye’s position at a rate of at least 1,000 times per second
to keep up with saccadic movements, which do not stop during LASIK
surgery. LADARTracker measures eye movements at a rate of 4,000 times per
second, 4 times the established safety margin. The device is manufactured by
Alcon Laboratories, of Fort Worth, Texas, and is used in conjunction with the
company’s LADARVision 4000 system for LASIK surgery, which is being used by
eye surgeons across the country.
• Supercomputer experts from Ames Research Center and engineers from Johnson
Space Center teamed up with famed cardiologist Dr. Michael DeBakey to
develop a ventricular assist device that functions as a “bridge to heart transplant”
by pumping blood throughout the body to keep critically ill patients alive until a
donor heart is available. The consortium analyzed blood flow through the battery-
powered heart pump using NASA supercomputers and the same methodologies
used to analyze fuel and oxidizer flow through rocket engines. NASA patented
the heart pump and licensed it exclusively to MicroMed Technology Inc., of
Houston, Texas. The 400th patient implant was performed on October 20, 2006,
by Dr. Matthias Loebe of Methodist Hospital in Houston.