NASA has many commercialized technologies. Thousands of American businesses have benefited from partnering with NASA to license technology and leverage NASA expertise. These partnerships have resulted in billions of dollars in generated revenue, billions more in saved costs, and tens of thousands of new jobs.
The chart below features commercialized NASA Goddard Space Flight Center technologies.
Title [ Downloads & Links]  | Success Type | Partner | Products / Technology | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That | Open Source Software | Red Canyon Software LLC | Software two decades in the making helps private space companies save time, money |
 | Satellites "See" Sea Turtles, Ocean Threats | Satellite Tech & Data | CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellite) | A tracking system in low-Earth orbit locates turtles, boats, birds, oil slicks, and more |
 | A Huge Development for Tiny Satellites | License(s) | Thermal Management Technologies | NASA-developed mechanism improves reliability of small satellites |
 | Making the Most of Meticulous Measurements | Subcontracted on Webb Telescope | 4D Technology | When NASA needed to make sure telescope mirrors were perfectly flat, 4D Technology of Tucson, Arizona, was contracted to develop measuring instruments that could ensure the James Webb Space Telescope could see distant galaxies. |
 | Aqua Solutions for Terra Firma | Public NASA data | ilika Geospatial | To provide weather information to underserved farming communities in India, ilika Geospatial LLC of Edison, New Jersey, developed a weather app that uses data from the Aqua and Terra satellites operated by Goddard Space Flight Center to provide an accurate forecast in the Indian subcontinent, and the company also uses this satellite data in observations for its wider geospatial intelligence business. |
 | Taking the Pulse of Earth | Public data, NASA funding, NASA internship at GSFC | terraPulse Inc. | By combining NASA satellite data and imagery with proprietary artificial intelligence developed by terraPulse, Inc. the North Potomac, MD-based business makes it possible for companies to monitor changes to the Earth’s surface now and across the past 40 years. |
 | Ballooning Business for Shrinking Cameras | Public domain, SBIR | Urban Sky Inc. | Miniaturized sensors that fly on a zero-pressure balloon collect data and take pictures that are as expansive as satellite images but are more precise. Denver-based Urban Sky Inc. leveraged SBIR funding from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create sensors lighter than off-the-shelf options. |
 | Farmers Get Tools from Space | Public data | IrriWatch | IrriWatch BV of Wageningen, Netherlands, uses streams of publicly available data from NASA-built instruments in orbit, including the Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to calculate plant stress and other factors important to agriculture for farmers’ fields all over the world. Farmers now buy the near-real-time information as a subscription-based service. |
 | The IceCube CubeSat produced the world’s first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice | SBIR | Virginia Diodes. Inc. | CubeSat Measures World’s First Ice Cloud Map to Support Climate Research |
 | Matured DOD SBIR-developed technology to meet NASA needs | SBIR | Freedom Photonics | Growing Government Relationships and Technology Capabilities with the NASA SBIR/STTR Program |
 | Black Swift Technologies’ sUAS gathers and process data to maps soil moisture in near real-time | SBIR | Black Swift Technologies LLC | Soil Moisture Mapping Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) |
 | Combining Spinoff and SBIR Technologies Yields Cost and Time Savings for NASA Missions | SBIR | The Hammers Company, Inc. (THC, Inc.) | Integrated Test and Operations Systems (ITOS) and VirtualSat system |
 | SBIR Company Creates Low-Cost Tool for Measuring and Polishing Mirrors | SBIR | Bauer Associates | Low-cost, reliable tool for measuring large aspheric mirror surfaces |
 | Goddard CHARMS Facility Characterizes Material Properties for Advanced Optics | Partnership | U. of Oxford, Aerospace Corp., Harvard College Observatory, U. of California Observatories/LICK | Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) |
 | NASA Goddard and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies | Marketing/Business Process | Ocean Tomo Federal Services | 40 Techs for Live IP Auction |
 | SBIR Recipient Creates Low-Power, Lightweight Controller | SBIR | Barrett Technology, Inc. | Brushless servo electronics module |
 | SBIR Advances Our Understanding of Clouds and the Carbon Cycle | SBIR | Anasphere | Cloud-water sensors |
 | SBIR Funding Yields Sensor to Better Understand Cloud Characteristics | SBIR | Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) | miniaturized cloud sensors |
 | Goddard's Cable-Compliant Joint Technology Gets Patients Up and Walking with SAM | Tech Transfer | Enduro Medical Technology | Cable Compliant Joint and Compliant Walker Techs / Secure Ambulation Module (SAM) |
 | Goddard and Northrop Grumman Partner To Answer Key Questions in Climate Change and Planetary Science | Partnership | Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems | Advanced Civil Radar Architectures |
 | Nanotailor, Inc. Licenses Goddard Nanotube Fabrication Process | Tech Transfer | Nanotailor | single-walled carbon nanotube fabrication process |
 | Goddard HHT to Be Used in RFID Demonstration System | Partnership | BCG Wireless | Applying Hilbert-Huang Transform technology to RFID signals |
 | Two Agreements Prepare Goddard's Cryogenic Cooling System for Commercial Use and Future NASA Missions | Partnership & Tech Transfer | Lockheed Martin and Lake Shore Cryotronics | Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (CADR) technology |
 | STTR Company with Exploration-Related Technology Acquired by Microsoft | STTR | Vexcel Corp. | Wireless sensor network technology |
 | Goddard Helps BAE Systems Build New SpaceWire-Based ASIC | Partnership | BAE Systems | ASIC development for SpaceWire link-and-switch router technology |
 | Texas Instruments Uses NASA Facility to Test Advanced Spaceflight Electronics | Partnership | Texas Instruments | Radiation-hard electronics |
 | Goddard and LogicNets Collaborate in the Building of a Test-bed Environment for an Intelligent Robotic System | Partnership | LogicNets | Intelligence models for autonomous robotic systems |
 | Aeroflex to Implement Goddard's SpaceWire Router to Benefit Aerospace Electronics | Partnership | Aeroflex | SpaceWire Router |
 | Platform-Independent Software Offers Flexibility and Ease When Controlling and Monitoring Remote Devices and Sensors | Open Source Software | N/A | Interoperable Remote Component (IRC) Architecture |
 | University of Oxford Commissions Goddard CHARMS Facility to Characterize Optics Used for a Ground-Based Infrared Instrument | Partnership | U. of Oxford | Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) |
 | Harris Corporation Evaluating SpaceWire Router for Its Own Space Applications | Partnership | Harris Corporation | SpaceWire standard and router |
 | Nanotechnology Research Benefits from Collaboration | Partnership | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Access to NIST's Advanced Measurement Lab |
 | NASA Goddard Gives Howard Community College Students Hands-On Assessment Experience | Partnership | Howard Community College | Providing NASA Technologies for Invention-to-Marketplace Classes |
 | Smithsonian Solar Experiments Benefit from Unique NASA Goddard Facility | Partnership | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | multi-spectral reflective optical coating |
 | Goddard Fuels Medical Research to Help Improve Diagnoses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Partnership | Harvard Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology |
 | Goddard's HHT Shows Promise for Radio Frequency Communications | Tech Transfer | BCG Wireless | Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology |
 | Goddard Technologies Give University of Baltimore Students Hands-On Assessment Experience with the "Lab to Market" Program | Partnership | University of Baltimore | Providing NASA Technologies for Invention-to-Marketplace Classes |
 | Low-Cost, High-Quality Carbon Nanotubes Enter the Marketplace | Tech Transfer | Idaho Space Materials | single-walled carbon nanotube fabrication process |
 | NASA Enters Agreement to Attract High-Tech Companies to Maryland | Partnership | Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development | Access to GSFC facilities and technology |
 | Goddard Technologies Selected for Innovative Entrepreneurship Program with UMBC | Partnership | U. of Maryland, Baltimore County | ACTiVATE Program |