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NASA NTRS1998

Optical Micromachining

Under an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) with Marshall Space Flight Center, Potomac Photonics, Inc., constructed and demonstrated a unique tool that fills a need in the area of diffractive and refractive micro-optics. It is an integrated computer-aided design and computer-aided micro-machining workstation that will extend the benefits of diffractive and micro-optic technology to optical designers. Applications of diffractive optics include sensors and monitoring equipment, analytical instruments, and fiber optic distribution and communication. The company has been making diffractive elements with the system as a commercial service for the last year.

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NASA NTRS1998

Slow-Release Fertilizer

Under an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research), ZeoponiX, Inc., introduced ZeoPro. This product is used as a fertilizer/soil amendment for golf courses, ball fields, greenhouse and horticultural uses. A combination of superior growth medium and soil conditioner allow for nutrient supplementation and high efficiency delivery of nutrients throughout the plant. ZeoPro provides a balanced nutrient system for major, minor, and trace nutrients.

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NASA NTRS1998

Improving Airline Safety

Under a NASA-Ames Space Act Agreement, Coryphaeus Software and Simauthor, Inc., developed an Aviation Performance Measuring System (APMS). This software, developed for the aerospace and airline industry, enables the replay of Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) data in a flexible, user-configurable, real-time, high fidelity 3D (three dimensional) environment.

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NASA NTRS1998

Joy of a Joystick

With Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems as the prime contractor, ThrustMaster, Inc., developed shuttle controls for NASA's Shuttle simulators. ThrustMaster developed an authentic and operational reproduction of the Rotational Hand Controller used to control the space shuttle. It will also be used by shuttle astronauts during ground training. It will additionally be used as onboard simulators to practice shuttle landings while still in orbit. Their newest product, the Millennium 3D Inceptor, is a digital 3D (three dimensional) joystick, based on the controller built for the NASA shuttle program.

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NASA NTRS1998

Sense of Touch

Logitech Inc., has advanced a digital game controller originally developed for a NASA space mission. CyberMan 2 offers players the experience of being "inside" the game. The product is commercially available for $99 to anyone with a personal computer.

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NASA NTRS1998

Go With the Flow

Under SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contracts with Lewis Research Center, Nektonics, Inc., developed coating process simulation tools, known as Nekton. This powerful simulation software is used specifically for the modeling and analysis of a wide range of coating flows including thin film coating analysis, polymer processing, and glass melt flows. Polaroid, Xerox, 3M, Dow Corning, Mead Paper, BASF, Mitsubishi, Chugai, and Dupont Imaging Systems are only a few of the companies that presently use Nekton.

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NASA NTRS1998

Low Level Leaks

NASA has transferred the improved portable leak detector technology to UE Systems, Inc.. This instrument was developed to detect leaks in fluid systems of critical launch and ground support equipment. This system incorporates innovative electronic circuitry, improved transducers, collecting horns, and contact sensors that provide a much higher degree of reliability, sensitivity and versatility over previously used systems. Potential commercial uses are pipelines, underground utilities, air-conditioning systems, petrochemical systems, aerospace, power transmission lines and medical devices.

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NASA NTRS1998

Somewhere in the Rainbow

Aerometrics, Inc.'s Rainbow Refractometer was developed through an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contract with Lewis Research Center. The system is a non- intrusive instrument for measuring droplet inside of refraction. It can also derive the temperature and chemical composition of refractive droplets. The technology can be integrated with the Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer systems (featured in Spinoff 1994) or used independently.

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NASA NTRS1998

Power Play, Laser Style

Under a NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) SDL, Inc., has developed the TC40 Single-Frequency Continuously Tunable 500 mw Laser Diode System. This is the first commercially available single frequency diode laser system that offers the broad tunability and the high powers needed for atomic cooling and trapping as well as a variety of atomic spectroscopy techniques. By greatly decreasing both the equipment and the costs of entry, the TC40 enables researchers to pursue some of the most interesting areas of physical chemistry, biochemistry, and atomic physics.

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NASA NTRS1998

All-in-One Chip

Under an SBIR contract, EMC Technology, Inc., was funded to develop a family of Temperature Compensating Attenuators. These devices are used to compensate for changes in amplifier gain with temperatures. Special thermistor materials were developed that not only satisfied NASA requirements, but also proved useful on several new commercial products. New Thermopad devices with greater compensation and lower loss were developed and used by companies such as Hughes Space and Communications, Motorola, Lucent, Ericsson, and General Instrument. A Power Sensing Termination (Smartload) was also developed for use in communication systems that require accurate, reliable, low cost power detection for level control and alarm circuits.

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NASA NTRS2000

Finding Diamonds in the Rough

HighTower Software, Inc. has developed a commercial software application originally designed at JPL that helps users identify deviations from norms out of massive quantities of data. The commercial product is known as CyberGrid and the same software is still supporting NASA's Voyager, Galileo and Cassini missions. CyberGrid generates 3-D graphs of data and has been used in AIDS research as well as e-commerce applications.

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NASA NTRS2000

Agent Building Software

AgentBuilder is a software component developed under an SBIR contract between Reticular Systems, Inc., and Goddard Space Flight Center. AgentBuilder allows software developers without experience in intelligent agent technologies to easily build software applications using intelligent agents. Agents are components of software that will perform tasks automatically, with no intervention or command from a user. AgentBuilder reduces the time and cost of developing agent systems and provides a simple mechanism for implementing high-performance agent systems.

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NASA NTRS2000

Putting the Pressure On

Langley Research Center's interest in hypersonic flight led to a SBIR contract with IAP Research, Inc. to develop an electromagnetic launcher. The launcher technology was the basis for IAP's Magnepress process which manufactures high-density parts at rapid rates. The powder compaction technology can be used in the automotive industry and has also been sold to ice cream dispenser manufacturers.

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NASA NTRS2000

Picturing Video

Video Pics is a software program that generates high-quality photos from video. The software was developed under an SBIR contract with Marshall Space Flight Center by Redhawk Vision, Inc.--a subsidiary of Irvine Sensors Corporation. Video Pics takes information content from multiple frames of video and enhances the resolution of a selected frame. The resulting image has enhanced sharpness and clarity like that of a 35 mm photo. The images are generated as digital files and are compatible with image editing software.

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NASA NTRS2001

Support of the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics for Dynamics of the Solid Earth (DOSE)

This final report summarizes the accomplishments during the contract period. Under the contract NVI, Inc. provided support to the VLBI group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The contract covered a period of approximately eight years during which geodetic and astrometric VLBI evolved through several major changes. This report is divided into four sections which correspond to major task areas in the contract: A) Coordination and Scheduling, B) Field System, C) Station Support, and D) Analysis and Research and Development.

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NASA NTRS2000

A Shocking New Pump

Hydro Dynamics, Inc. received a technical helping hand from NASA that made their Hydrosonic Pump (HPump) a reality. Marshall engineers resolved a bearing problem in the rotor of the pump and recommended new bearings, housings and mounting hardware as a solution. The resulting HPump is able to heat liquids with greater energy efficiency using shock waves to generate heat.

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NASA NTRS2000

Robotic Surgery

The Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning, or AESOP, was developed by Computer Motion, Inc. under a SBIR contract from the Jet Propulsion Lab. AESOP is a robotic endoscopic positioning system used to control the motion of a camera during endoscopic surgery. The camera, which is mounted at the end of a robotic arm, previously had to be held in place by the surgical staff. With AESOP the robotic arm can make more precise and consistent movements. AESOP is also voice controlled by the surgeon. It is hoped that this technology can be used in space repair missions which require precision beyond human dexterity. A new generation of the same technology entitled the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System can make endoscopic procedures even more successful. ZEUS allows the surgeon control various instruments in its robotic arms, allowing for the precision the procedure requires.

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NASA NTRS2000

Preserving Fresh Fruit

Geo-Centers, Inc. has developed an Ethlyene Monitoring and Control System through an SBIR contract with Kennedy Space Center. As plants grow, they produce by products of ethylene and ammonia which are harmful to plant development. The system provides optimal exposure of fruit to ethylene since the proper balance in ethylene is necessary to prevent fruit loss. It can be used to monitor the de-greening process of citrus fruits, in particular.

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