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![Under contracts with Stennis Space Center, Energy Focus designed LED floodlights that could withstand conditions inside a rocket engine test stand and would not pose a hazard themselves. EnergyFocus LED floodlights](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ee_18_web_2.jpg?itok=MCV5RB0Z)
![Under contracts with Stennis Space Center, Energy Focus designed LED floodlights that could withstand conditions inside a rocket engine test stand and would not pose a hazard themselves. EnergyFocus LED floodlights](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ee_18_web_2.jpg?itok=bULg9nNI)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ee_2.html
2018
![Using expertise built on NASA projects, Vecna Technologies has built an “autonomy kit” for commercial warehouse equipment to automate, for example, package handling. Software coordinates the robot’s tasks to ensure packages are moved through the warehouse in the most efficient possible manner. Vecna autonomous warehouse robot](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ps_16_web_0.gif?itok=ipZ9hnz-)
![Using expertise built on NASA projects, Vecna Technologies has built an “autonomy kit” for commercial warehouse equipment to automate, for example, package handling. Software coordinates the robot’s tasks to ensure packages are moved through the warehouse in the most efficient possible manner. Vecna autonomous warehouse robot](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ps_16_web_0.gif?itok=ZuZQh5Ms)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ps_4.html
2018
![The Altair printer, which comes in base and pro models, can print with more than 25 materials, and PrintSpace 3D is working on incorporating more. The company hopes the printer will help users make end-use products and not just prototypes. The Altair-3D printer, with printed samples](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ip_1_web_0.jpg?itok=Wi46l4TZ)
![The Altair printer, which comes in base and pro models, can print with more than 25 materials, and PrintSpace 3D is working on incorporating more. The company hopes the printer will help users make end-use products and not just prototypes. The Altair-3D printer, with printed samples](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ip_1_web_0.jpg?itok=6I4HKLCn)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ip_5.html
2018
![The skies of the future will likely host many drones doing tasks ranging from package and food delivery to monitoring air quality, gathering news, and perhaps carrying passengers. Software developed by IAI has helped regulators predict future drone traffic and develop the regulations that will allow them to function safely and smoothly. Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Don McCullough, CC BY 2.0 Drone in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2018_Images_ps18.png?itok=F3f6Pr94)
![The skies of the future will likely host many drones doing tasks ranging from package and food delivery to monitoring air quality, gathering news, and perhaps carrying passengers. Software developed by IAI has helped regulators predict future drone traffic and develop the regulations that will allow them to function safely and smoothly. Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Don McCullough, CC BY 2.0 Drone in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2018_Images_ps18.png?itok=uTK9XGP-)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ps_5.html
2018
![Remote sensing data helps ensure trucks like these are sent to the most effective points to battle wildfires. This map shows results from a night flight over a 2014 fire in New Mexico: the yellow represents fire spots detected by the autonomous modular sensor, and the red shows fire intensity (hot spots and intense burning, versus smoldering) as detected by an infrared sensor. A convoy of firetrucks next to raging forest fire](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ee_15_web_2.jpg?itok=yzvUUQDI)
![Remote sensing data helps ensure trucks like these are sent to the most effective points to battle wildfires. This map shows results from a night flight over a 2014 fire in New Mexico: the yellow represents fire spots detected by the autonomous modular sensor, and the red shows fire intensity (hot spots and intense burning, versus smoldering) as detected by an infrared sensor. A convoy of firetrucks next to raging forest fire](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ee_15_web_2.jpg?itok=7xN4-hNx)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ee_4.html
2018
![Scientific Instruments Inc. has been making temperature sensors for NASA since the Apollo era. For the Shuttle program, it improved an existing silicon diode sensor, which it now sells to private aerospace companies and the medical industry. A silicon diode temperature sensor](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ip_5_web_0.jpg?itok=9NEZvFRy)
![Scientific Instruments Inc. has been making temperature sensors for NASA since the Apollo era. For the Shuttle program, it improved an existing silicon diode sensor, which it now sells to private aerospace companies and the medical industry. A silicon diode temperature sensor](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ip_5_web_0.jpg?itok=b1G5jPoQ)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ip_6.html
2018
![Workers who will deploy to offshore oil and gas rigs are often required to have certain levels of fire and survival training, a need that Bastion Technologies is able to meet through the use of NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Offshore oil rig](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ps_2_web_2.jpg?itok=gw5wrPJI)
![Workers who will deploy to offshore oil and gas rigs are often required to have certain levels of fire and survival training, a need that Bastion Technologies is able to meet through the use of NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Offshore oil rig](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ps_2_web_2.jpg?itok=Bckg4DXn)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ps_6.html
2018
![In this false-color infrared view of Maui, the large sugar plantations that dominate the agriculture of that island are on view, wedged in the lowlands between the mountains of Pu’u Kukui on the east and Haleakala in the west. A false-color infrared view of Maui](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/ee_17_web_0.jpg?itok=qO3CAz1S)
![In this false-color infrared view of Maui, the large sugar plantations that dominate the agriculture of that island are on view, wedged in the lowlands between the mountains of Pu’u Kukui on the east and Haleakala in the west. A false-color infrared view of Maui](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/ee_17_web_0.jpg?itok=mkm5coXG)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ee_5.html
2018
![This setup shows optical tweezers, which use thousands of the liquid crystal variable retarders invented under SBIR by Meadowlark Optics to direct a laser beam through a microscope to “grab” tiny particles. Meadowlark Optics CUBE optical tweezers](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/Spinoff2018_Images_ip10.png?itok=ddNSHXG1)
![This setup shows optical tweezers, which use thousands of the liquid crystal variable retarders invented under SBIR by Meadowlark Optics to direct a laser beam through a microscope to “grab” tiny particles. Meadowlark Optics CUBE optical tweezers](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/Spinoff2018_Images_ip10.png?itok=T49-pqIj)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/ip_7.html
2018
![HondaJet was tested at the NTF to see whether the computer models of its innovative over-the-wing engine mount were accurate in real flying conditions. The successful test results gave the company more confidence to move to the commercial phase. Honda Aircraft HondaJet in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/search_/public/2020-08/t_4_web_0.jpg?itok=bbJdLrOe)
![HondaJet was tested at the NTF to see whether the computer models of its innovative over-the-wing engine mount were accurate in real flying conditions. The successful test results gave the company more confidence to move to the commercial phase. Honda Aircraft HondaJet in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/pdf/public/2020-08/t_4_web_0.jpg?itok=pMte32jc)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/t_1.html
2018