Space Technology Mission Directorate - NASA
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) develops technologies through a community of entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators to solve the nation’s toughest challenges and enable future NASA and commercial missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Technology - NASA
Aug 20, 2024 · NASA technology development supports the nation’s innovation economy by creating solutions for space exploration that also generate tangible benefits for life on Earth. Technology drives exploration.
NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024
Oct 30, 2024. Article. As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024.
Space Travel Technology - NASA
Sep 26, 2023 · NASA seeks to improve our ability to access and travel through space; land more mass in more locations throughout the solar system; live and work in deep space and on planetary bodies; build next generation air vehicles, and transform the ability to observe the universe and answer profound questions in earth and space sciences.
NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024
Oct 30, 2024 · Since launching aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2023, the Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration has delivered record-breaking downlink data rates to ground stations as the Psyche spacecraft travels through deep space. To demonstrate the high data rates that are possible with laser communications, photos, telemetry data from the spacecraft, and ultra-high ...
Civil Space Shortfalls - NASA
Aug 15, 2024 · A shortfall is a technology area requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. The term “gap” is widely used across NASA and the aerospace industry and implies both ends of the problem – the current state of the art and the technology needed – are known.
Space Nuclear Propulsion - NASA
Oct 21, 2024 · NASA’s space nuclear propulsion project is led by the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and funded through its Technology Demonstration Missions program based at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The project, also at Marshall, collaborates with DOE to advance the key technologies needed for future ...
Solar Electric Propulsion - NASA
Nov 2, 2023 · Known as the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS), this innovative thruster is being designed, built, and demonstrated by NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne with the ultimate goal of maturing the technology to be used on operational spacecraft to achieve NASA’s mission. In April 2020, the SEP project was tasked with providing three 12-kW ...
Technology News - NASA
Sep 11, 2024 · Technology News. Stay up-to-date with the latest content from NASA as we explore the universe and discover more about our home planet.
About STMD - NASA
Jul 16, 2024 · NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) aims to transform future missions while ensuring American leadership in aerospace. As NASA embarks on the next era of space exploration with Artemis, STMD is advancing …
- Some results have been removed