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Since NASA was created in 1958, over 6400 patents have been issued to the agency—nearly one in a thousand of all patents ever issued in the United States. A large number of these inventions have focused on new materials that have made space travel and exploration of the moon, Mars, and the outer planets possible. In the last few years, the materials developed by NASA Langley Research Center embody...
Small satellite systems appear to be antithetical to human spaceflight systems and flagship robotic satellite systems: Small satellite missions have more focused scientific objectives, lower cost, far less complexity, and shorter development and deployment schedules. The shorter schedules offer an opportunity for injecting new technology into their design as a means for keeping costs and schedule...
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