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Technology Originally Developed for Space Missions Now Integral to Everyday Life

Groundbreaking “camera-on-a-chip” technology that was originally developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for use in space missions is currently employed in billions of devices like cell phones that are used daily by people worldwide.

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Making High Fidelity Fluxgate Cores for Space Science and Space Weather Missions

A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa (UI) is restoring and advancing the nation’s capability to make high-fidelity magnetic field measurements needed to investigate space weather that can impact our communication and power grids on Earth and our assets in space.

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Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth

A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA

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NASA-funded Compact Radar Drives Big Changes in Airborne and Suborbital Radar Capabilities

NASA’s new compact radar spots millimeter-scale Earth changes from the sky—no GPS needed—and could one day map other worlds.

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A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NASA

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NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space - NASA

Editor’s note: NASA’s Arcstone lunar calibration instrument lifted off aboard the Transporter-14 rideshare mission with SpaceX via launch

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A New Hybrid System Could Enable Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems to Perform Scientific Measurements

NASA is developing a compact Spacecraft Attitude Control system that also measures Earth’s magnetic field—enabling smaller, more affordable science missions.

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c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations

Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared

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Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space

NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft.

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