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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Operational Status
10/04/2019NASA is pleased to report that Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 is once again able to peer deep into the universe.
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Solving Problems in a Different Way
09/04/2019Habitats, robots, vascular tissue and communication. NASA is looking to creative thinkers to help fill some technology gaps.
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Flying on Mars
08/04/2019An aerial vehicle that could take off and land multiple times would let us see much more of Mars.
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Visiting Bennu
05/04/2019More than 70 million miles from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS REx is in orbit around asteroid Bennu.
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Pushing the Limits
04/04/2019MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a class of mini-spacecraft called CubeSats.
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Printing a Habitat
02/04/2019NASA’s Additive Construction with Mobile Emplacement project is developing technology to build structures on planetary surfaces using in-situ resources.
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Thirsty Plants
01/04/2019Sustainable technologies designed for space have resulted in technology transfer products that improve life on Earth. One of those spinoffs puts farmers in close contact with their crops.
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Leaving the Heliosphere
29/03/2019Voyager 2 has become the second object to cross the gateway into interstellar space.
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Put Yourself in Space
27/03/2019The NASA Selfies app lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of more than 30 eye-catching locations.
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Prepping the Chassis
26/03/2019As the JPL team prepped the chassis of the Mars 2020 rover for painting, they had only one goal in mind: to get the rover as close to perfect as possible.
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Power for a Spacecraft
25/03/2019Through a NIAC grant, two companies are exploring the possibility of using a Direct Fusion Drive to revolutionize interplanetary travel.
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Celebrating Women at NASA
21/03/2019Technology drives exploration. But it takes a diverse and creative workforce to make those technologies a reality.
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Photons of Light
20/03/2019By timing how long it takes individual photons to leave the satellite, reflect off the surface, and return to the receiver telescope on the satellite, NASA can precisely measure surface heights below.
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Making a Difference
19/03/2019Engineers and scientists. Technicians and astronauts. Women at NASA are shaping how we explore our home and the universe.
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Build Your Own Rover
18/03/2019Would you like to build a rover of your own? JPL has published an open source design that could help you put wheels on the ground.
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Safety in the Skies
15/03/2019Instead of waiting for updates with no information about flights on the ground, air traffic managers now have access to fast updates for every flight thanks to Sherlock.
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A Visual Species
14/03/2019Creating virtual landscapes is one of the applications that could be used by scientists to change the way NASA does science.