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Spinoff 2013 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2013 Spinoff (spin´ôf´) -noun. 1. A commercialized product incorporating NASA technology or expertise that benefits the public. These include products or processes that: • were designed for NASA use, to NASA specifications, and then commercialized; • are developed as a result of a NASA-funded agreement; • are developed as a result of know-how gained under a funding agreement or collaboration with NASA; • incorporate NASA technology in the manufacturing process; • receive significant contributions in design or testing from NASA laboratory personnel or facilities; • are successful entrepreneurial endeavors by ex-NASA employees whose technical expertise was developed while employed by the Agency; • are commercialized as a result of a NASA patent license or waiver; • are developed as a result of the Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer programs; or • are developed using data or software made available by NASA. 2. NASA’s premier annual publication, featuring successfully commercialized NASA technologies. 2013 Office of the Chief Technologist NASA Headquarters Daniel Lockney, Technology Transfer Program Executive Spinoff Program Office NASA Center for AeroSpace Information On the Cover: Daniel Coleman, Editor An artist’s depiction shows the Mars Curiosity rover during its descent onto the Red Planet (background). NASA Lisa Rademakers, Senior Writer technologies like Curiosity (right) lead to partnerships and Samson Reiny, Writer advances in products and services as diverse as (clockwise Bo Schwerin, Contributing Writer from top inset) software to measure fatigue, refuges for miners, medical training devices, personal aircraft, and John Jones, Art Director insulation for homes and buildings. Table of Contents 5 Foreword 7 Introduction 8 Mars Spinoffs 18 Executive Summary SPINOFFS 32 40 58 68 NASA Technologies Benefiting Society 36 52 68 142 Innovative Software Tools Measure Experiments Result in Safer, Spin-Resistant Air Systems Provide Life Support to Miners DEPARTMENTS Partnership News Behavioral Alertness Aircraft 72 160 40 56 Coatings Preserve Metal, Stone, Tile, and Award-Winning Technologies Miniaturized, Portable Sensors Monitor Interfaces Visualize Data for Airline Safety, Concrete Metabolic Health Efficiency 176 74 Spinoffs of Tomorrow 42 58 Robots Spur Software That Lends a Hand Patient Simulators Train Emergency Data Mining Tools Make Flights Safer, 196 Caregivers More Efficient 76 NASA Office of the Chief Technologist Cloud-Based Data Sharing Connects Network Directory 44 60 Emergency Managers Solar Refrigerators Store Life-Saving NASA Standards Inform Comfortable Car Vaccines Seats 78 Catalytic Converters Maintain Air Quality 46 62 in Mines Monitors Enable Medication Management Heat Shield Paves the Way for Commercial in Patients’ Homes Space 48 Handheld Diagnostic Device Delivers Quick Medical Readings 2 Table of Contents Spinoff 2013 88 96 120 128 82 96 114 128 NASA-Enhanced Water Bottles Filter Open Source Initiative Powers Real-Time Processor Units Reduce Satellite Reactors Save Energy, Costs for Hydrogen Water on the Go Data Streams Construction Costs Production 84 100 116 130 Brainwave Monitoring Software Improves Shuttle Engine Designs Revolutionize Solar Software Accelerates Computing Time for Cameras Monitor Spacecraft Integrity to Distracted Minds Power Complex Math Prevent Failures 86 102 118 132 Thermal Materials Protect Priceless, Procedure-Authoring Tool Improves Safety Simulation Tools Prevent Signal Interference Testing Devices Garner Data on Insulation Personal Keepsakes on Oil Rigs on Spacecraft Performance 88 104 120 134 Home Air Purifiers Eradicate Harmful Satellite Data Aid Monitoring of Nation’s Software Simplifies the Sharing of Smart Sensors Gather Information for Pathogens Forests Numerical Models Machine Diagnostics 90 106 122 136 Thermal Materials Drive Professional Mars Technologies Spawn Durable Wind Virtual Machine Language Controls Oxygen Sensors Monitor Bioreactors and Ensure Apparel Line Turbines Remote Devices Health and Safety 92 110 124 138 Radiant Barriers Save Energy in Buildings Programs Visualize Earth and Space for Micro-Accelerometers Monitor Equipment Vision Algorithms Catch Defects in Screen Interactive Education Health Displays 140 Deformable Mirrors Capture Exoplanet Data, Reflect Lasers Spinoff 2013 Table of Contents 3 DISCLAIMER: While NASA does not manufacture, market, or sell commercial products, many commercial products are derived from NASA technology. Many NASA-originated technologies are adapted by private industry for use by consumers like you. Spinoff developments highlighted in this publication are based on information provided by individual and private industry users of NASA-originated aerospace technology who acknowledge that such technology contributed wholly or in part to development of the product or process described. NASA cannot accept responsibility or liability for the misinterpretation or misrepresentation of the enclosed information provided by these third-party users. Publication herein does not constitute NASA endorsement of the product or process, nor confirmation of manufacturers’ performance claims related to any particular spinoff development. Setting sail in space was a favorite image for early science fiction writers, but Sunjammer, a NASA technology demonstration mission, hopes to show that solar wind can be used as an effective propulsion system. The final spacecraft, set to launch in 2014, will deploy a 13,000-square-foot sail that weighs just 70 pounds. Shown here is a sail deployment experiment conducted in a partnership between Marshall Space Flight Center and La’Garde Inc. For a deeper look at the Sunjammer project, scan this code. Foreword t NASA, we love to take on ambitious goals, Station (ISS), the heat shield is playing a critical role in Charles F. Bolden, Jr. especially those that inspire us to create innovative opening up space to the private sector. (page 62) Administrator technologies where existing tools fall short. We A • NASA-developed data mining tools have created National Aeronautics and are currently in a new and rapidly evolving era of space algorithms that commercial airline companies use Space Administration exploration, one that includes a complete transformation to sift through flight data and find anomalies they of how we get to low Earth orbit and beyond. It’s an era were previously unaware of. As a result, one company that is witness to the birth of commercial space, with modified its operating procedures and has worked the Agency playing a key role in helping the private sector develop safe and affordable transportation systems. with air traffic control towers to improve the quality of And it’s an era where we are developing the technologies its approaches and landings. (page 58) to send humans to new destinations such as an asteroid • A car manufacturer is taking advantage of decades of and Mars. NASA research on the relaxed human posture naturally In addition to the 41 spinoffs you will find featured NASA is creating a future in space exploration and assumed in microgravity. Company scientists tested in this book, this year’s publication also includes a new aeronautics that will benefit the US economy and all the application of NASA standards in car seats, section profiling 18 NASA technologies that are currently of humankind. Exciting advances such as solar electric determining that its design could reduce physical available for licensing and/or development opportunities propulsion for robotic missions, the Mars Science exhaustion in drivers by 50 percent. The auto maker (“Spinoffs of Tomorrow,” page 176). Our 10 field cen- Laboratory, new Earth-observing satellites, and the James debuted its new NASA-derived seats in 2013 and will ters are brimming with ideas that have great commercial Webb Space Telescope underscore the importance of be including them in many upcoming standard and potential, and the inventors and contributors to those today’s investment in space technology for tomorrow’s luxury car models. (page 60) technologies are eager to see their work transferred to the discoveries and accomplishments. private sector for the benefit of the public. • Partnering with NASA through a Space Act To make these incredible technologies come to life, From life-saving shelters to innovations that protect Agreement, one company created an air revitalization NASA researchers, engineers, and contractors often work the environment to components that are making system fit for sending up to seven crewmembers on alongside our many partners in industry and academia. commercial space transport possible, technology transfer trips to low-Earth orbit destinations such as the These partnerships not only further our missions; they represents a core part of NASA’s mission and identity. also create a large number of spinoff technologies with ISS. The same system now powers refuges placed It ensures that what we do each and every day for space tangible benefits that are making an impact on our lives deep underground, where miners can retreat in an and aeronautics has as wide an effect as possible—for the today. Each year, NASA’s Spinoff publication presents the emergency, breathing clean air while awaiting rescue. benefit of all. best recent examples of these benefits. The company has hired more than 30 employees and Some of my personal favorites in this year’s edition its refuge can save mining companies $30,000 in include: maintenance costs
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