menu
Spinoffs come from everywhere!
Click on your state to find success stories where you live.
![Applied in a vacuum with equipment like this device from Specialty Coating Systems Inc., Parylene coatings conform completely to the surfaces they cover. Machine to create vacuum and apply Parylene coating](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2020_Images_hm_10.png?itok=PSjHRi0Q)
![Applied in a vacuum with equipment like this device from Specialty Coating Systems Inc., Parylene coatings conform completely to the surfaces they cover. Machine to create vacuum and apply Parylene coating](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2020_Images_hm_10.png?itok=zOwSqVTC)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2020/hm_3.html
2020
![Mosaic CEO Chris Brinton, left, looks on as a retired air traffic coordinator tests a flow-management feature in the training program the company developed with NASA funding. The platform works within the ATM-X Test Bed, an airspace simulation created at the Ames Research Center. Mosaic CEO Chris Brinton and a retired air traffic coordinator look at a computer](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2020_Images_t14.jpg?itok=Dtjiii44)
![Mosaic CEO Chris Brinton, left, looks on as a retired air traffic coordinator tests a flow-management feature in the training program the company developed with NASA funding. The platform works within the ATM-X Test Bed, an airspace simulation created at the Ames Research Center. Mosaic CEO Chris Brinton and a retired air traffic coordinator look at a computer](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2020_Images_t14.jpg?itok=m5ft3ZJZ)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2020/t_5.html
2020
![In the early 1980s, NASA’s models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the Space Shuttle consisted of three grids, 10,000 surface points, and 300,000 volume points (far left). As NASA engineers developed the overset-grid method of CFD, creating and improving the OVERFLOW CFD solver and accompanying software throughout the 1980s and ’90s, modeling details and capabilities exploded. By 2004, the Shuttle CFD grid system included 267 overlapping grids with 636,000 surface points and 34.8 million volume points (far right). Progressive renderings of the Space Shuttle, external fuel tanks, and boosters showing increased level of detail](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/it_11_web.jpg?itok=Q18mjQQ7)
![In the early 1980s, NASA’s models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the Space Shuttle consisted of three grids, 10,000 surface points, and 300,000 volume points (far left). As NASA engineers developed the overset-grid method of CFD, creating and improving the OVERFLOW CFD solver and accompanying software throughout the 1980s and ’90s, modeling details and capabilities exploded. By 2004, the Shuttle CFD grid system included 267 overlapping grids with 636,000 surface points and 34.8 million volume points (far right). Progressive renderings of the Space Shuttle, external fuel tanks, and boosters showing increased level of detail](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/it_11_web.jpg?itok=nj7YyrE4)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/it_5.html
2019
![Tao Systems’ CVAs measure liquid velocities just as well as they measure wind speeds, and they’ve been used to design America’s Cup-winning yachts, among other applications. Meanwhile, the company’s latest CVA, the high-bandwidth, multi-channel Model 4-600 (inset) is currently under testing at Langley to compare the CVA with other types of anemometers.Image courtesy of Dale Frost, CC BY 2.0 The X-43 hypersonic aircraft undergoes testing in a Langley Research Center wind tunnel](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2019_Images_t_17.jpg?itok=VEbeE03_)
![Tao Systems’ CVAs measure liquid velocities just as well as they measure wind speeds, and they’ve been used to design America’s Cup-winning yachts, among other applications. Meanwhile, the company’s latest CVA, the high-bandwidth, multi-channel Model 4-600 (inset) is currently under testing at Langley to compare the CVA with other types of anemometers.Image courtesy of Dale Frost, CC BY 2.0 The X-43 hypersonic aircraft undergoes testing in a Langley Research Center wind tunnel](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2019_Images_t_17.jpg?itok=y9EBymUH)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/t_6.html
2019
![Because microchips’ components are so small and sensitive, they must be manufactured in hyperclean environments, free of even tiny specks of dust or traces of harmful gases such as ammonia. Serionix is working with one microchip manufacturer to incorporate its filters in the company’s facilities. Workers in clean-room suits look through microscopes](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2019_Images_cg_5B.png?itok=ebp0ESOh)
![Because microchips’ components are so small and sensitive, they must be manufactured in hyperclean environments, free of even tiny specks of dust or traces of harmful gases such as ammonia. Serionix is working with one microchip manufacturer to incorporate its filters in the company’s facilities. Workers in clean-room suits look through microscopes](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2019_Images_cg_5B.png?itok=em5QJ-bv)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/cg_2.html
2019
![In a chromosomal inversion, one or more segments of a chromosome are reversed. As the chromosome divides, it produces corresponding mistakes in the new “daughter strands.” At this point, KromaTiD’s fluorescently tagged chromatid paints are introduced and highlight the damage to the daughter strands. Diagram showing how chromatid paints highlight chromosomal inversion after chromosome divides](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/hm_8_web_0.jpg?itok=ES1Rv2a3)
![In a chromosomal inversion, one or more segments of a chromosome are reversed. As the chromosome divides, it produces corresponding mistakes in the new “daughter strands.” At this point, KromaTiD’s fluorescently tagged chromatid paints are introduced and highlight the damage to the daughter strands. Diagram showing how chromatid paints highlight chromosomal inversion after chromosome divides](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/hm_8_web_0.jpg?itok=j3X0zF0j)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/hm_3.html
2019
![Players can explore the surface of Mars like never before, even picking up samples to analyze with instruments modeled on real NASA technology. The spacesuit is also designed using concepts developed for real future Mars missions. Virtual reality image of an astronaut on Mars](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/cg_9_web_2.jpg?itok=zmFjh4Kc)
![Players can explore the surface of Mars like never before, even picking up samples to analyze with instruments modeled on real NASA technology. The spacesuit is also designed using concepts developed for real future Mars missions. Virtual reality image of an astronaut on Mars](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/cg_9_web_2.jpg?itok=ej1w9PCS)
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/cg_3.html
2019