NASA has many commercialized technologies. Thousands of American businesses have benefited from partnering with NASA to license technology and leverage NASA expertise. These partnerships have resulted in billions of dollars in generated revenue, billions more in saved costs, and tens of thousands of new jobs.
The chart below features commercialized NASA Goddard Space Flight Center technologies.
Title [ Download ]Â  | Success Type | Partner | Products / Technology | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Combining Spinoff and SBIR Technologies Yields Cost and Time Savings for NASA Missions | SBIR | The Hammers Company, Inc. (THC, Inc.) | Integrated Test and Operations Systems (ITOS) and VirtualSat system |
 | SBIR Company Creates Low-Cost Tool for Measuring and Polishing Mirrors | SBIR | Bauer Associates | Low-cost, reliable tool for measuring large aspheric mirror surfaces |
 | GoddardâÂÂs CHARMS Facility Characterizes Material Properties for Advanced Optics | Partnership | U. of Oxford, Aerospace Corp., Harvard College Observatory, U. of California Observatories/LICK | Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) |
 | NASA Goddard and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies | Marketing/Business Process | Ocean Tomo Federal Services | 40 Techs for Live IP Auction |
 | SBIR Recipient Creates Low-Power, Lightweight Controller | SBIR | Barrett Technology, Inc. | Brushless servo electronics module |
 | SBIR Advances Our Understanding of Clouds and the Carbon Cycle | SBIR | Anasphere | Cloud-water sensors |
 | SBIR Funding Yields Sensor to Better Understand Cloud Characteristics | SBIR | Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) | miniaturized cloud sensors |
 | Goddard's Cable-Compliant Joint Technology Gets Patients Up and Walking with SAM | Tech Transfer | Enduro Medical Technology | Cable Compliant Joint and Compliant Walker Techs / Secure Ambulation Module (SAM) |
 | Goddard and Northrop Grumman Partner To Answer Key Questions in Climate Change and Planetary Science | Partnership | Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems | Advanced Civil Radar Architectures |
 | Nanotailor, Inc. Licenses Goddard'ÂÂs Nanotube Fabrication Process | Tech Transfer | Nanotailor | single-walled carbon nanotube fabrication process |
 | Goddard'ÂÂs HHT to Be Used in RFID Demonstration System | Partnership | BCG Wireless | Applying Hilbert-Huang Transform technology to RFID signals |
 | Two Agreements Prepare Goddard's Cryogenic Cooling System for Commercial Use and Future NASA Missions | Partnership & Tech Transfer | Lockheed Martin and Lake Shore Cryotronics | Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (CADR) technology |
 | STTR Company with Exploration-Related Technology Acquired by Microsoft | STTR | Vexcel Corp. | Wireless sensor network technology |
 | Goddard Helps BAE Systems Build New SpaceWire-Based ASIC | Partnership | BAE Systems | ASIC development for SpaceWire link-and-switch router technology |
 | Texas Instruments Uses NASA Facility to Test Advanced Spaceflight Electronics | Partnership | Texas Instruments | Radiation-hard electronics |
 | Goddard and LogicNets Collaborate in the Building of a Test-bed Environment for an Intelligent Robotic System | Partnership | LogicNets | Intelligence models for autonomous robotic systems |
 | Aeroflex to Implement Goddard's SpaceWire Router to Benefit Aerospace Electronics | Partnership | Aeroflex | SpaceWire Router |
 | Platform-Independent Software Offers Flexibility and Ease When Controlling and Monitoring Remote Devices and Sensors | Open Source Software | N/A | Interoperable Remote Component (IRC) Architecture |
 | University of Oxford Commissions Goddard'ÂÂs CHARMS Facility to Characterize Optics Used for a Ground-Based Infrared Instrument | Partnership | U. of Oxford | Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) |
 | Harris Corporation Evaluating SpaceWire Router for Its Own Space Applications | Partnership | Harris Corporation | SpaceWire standard and router |
 | Nanotechnology Research Benefits from Collaboration | Partnership | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Access to NIST's Advanced Measurement Lab |
 | NASA Goddard Gives Howard Community College Students Hands-On Assessment Experience | Partnership | Howard Community College | Providing NASA Technologies for Invention-to-Marketplace Classes |
 | Smithsonian Solar Experiments Benefit from Unique NASA Goddard Facility | Partnership | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | multi-spectral reflective optical coating |
 | Goddard'ÂÂs HHT Fuels Medical Research to Help Improve Diagnoses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Partnership | HarvardâÂÂs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology |
 | Goddard's HHT Shows Promise for Radio Frequency Communications | Tech Transfer | BCG Wireless | Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology |
 | Goddard Technologies Give University of Baltimore Students Hands-On Assessment Experience with the "Lab to Market"ÂÂ Program | Partnership | University of Baltimore | Providing NASA Technologies for Invention-to-Marketplace Classes |
 | Low-Cost, High-Quality Carbon Nanotubes Enter the Marketplace | Tech Transfer | Idaho Space Materials | single-walled carbon nanotube fabrication process |
 | NASA Enters Agreement to Attract High-Tech Companies to Maryland | Partnership | Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development | Access to GSFC facilities and technology |
 | Goddard Technologies Selected for Innovative Entrepreneurship Program with UMBC | Partnership | U. of Maryland, Baltimore County | ACTiVATE Program |