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Accelerating Innovation: How NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program Exemplifies Public-Private Collaboration in Space Technology

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  • Senior Consultant TechPipeline

Summary

  • NASA’s Flight Opportunities program bridges the “valley of death” by advancing technologies from laboratory prototypes to mission-ready systems through flight testing with commercial partners.
  • NASA’s Navigation Doppler Lidar exemplifies the program’s impact: flight tested in 2017 and 2020, the technology is now serving automotive and defense markets as well as lunar missions.
  • The program’s risk-tolerant ethos and multiple access pathways—from competitions and solicitations to student challenges—create an innovation ecosystem that benefits NASA, commercial providers, and a range of researchers alike.

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