Sinopsis
Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.
Episodios
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Monitoring Wildfires
11/06/2020NASA has a number of satellites that can look at pre-fire, active fire, and post-fire activity.
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Foot Comfort
10/06/2020Adidas is hoping to improve foot comfort thanks to research they are conducting in space.
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Navigation Doppler Lidar
09/06/2020Navigation Doppler Lidar determines a spacecraft’s exact speed and position, enabling it to land at a specific location on planetary surfaces.
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Bringing the Universe Home
08/06/2020NASA at Home invites you to be part of NASA’s exploration from around the world and across the universe.
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Enhancing Helicopter Safety
05/06/2020Night vision goggles are designed to provide pilots with the ability to see clearly at night.
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Solar Cycles
04/06/2020Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a change from calm to violently active. But the timing of this important solar cycle is far from precise.
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Space Tech to Float a Boat
03/06/2020Like many innovations in NASA’s patent portfolio, these technologies have practical applications for use on Earth, or in this case, out on the open sea.
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Mimicking Terrain
02/06/2020At NASA’s Glenn Research Center, researchers can test rover components in a unique indoor lab, the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory.
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Casting a Shadow
01/06/2020The darkness, and subsequent cold on the Moon, create issues for rovers that might be used to explore these extreme environments.
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Visual Guidance
29/05/2020The FAA is a leader in the development of new visual guidance systems that make our airports safer.
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Cryogenic Tanks
28/05/2020Cryogenics is the study of things at very low temperatures. And NASA is changing the way they work to keep things cool.
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A Tribute to Annie Glenn
26/05/2020NASA remembers Annie Glenn, a woman who was a source of strength to her husband and an American hero in her own right.
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Launch America
25/05/2020The countdown has begun as we prepare to launch American astronauts from American soil for the first time since the end of the shuttle era.
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Embracing New Technologies
22/05/2020FAA researchers may look at different technologies air traffic controllers could be using in the next five years before building prototypes for testing.
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Adjusting to Earth
21/05/2020The space environment lacks many of the sensory inputs we take for granted on Earth.
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The Year Without a Summer
20/05/2020I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished.
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One More Secret
18/05/2020More than 3 decades after the flyby, scientists inspecting Voyager 2’s data have discovered one more secret about an icy world.
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Doubletree Cookies
15/05/2020The first-of-its-kind oven and enough dough to bake 5 chocolate chip cookies meant the astronauts on station got to enjoy the smell of freshly baked cookies, if not the cookies themselves.