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Spinoff story
Tooling Techniques Enhance Medical Imaging
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Collaborating with Goddard Space Flight Center, Mike Appleby developed a manufacturing process to create specialized components for a NASA Sun-imaging satellite. Through SBIR funding, Appleby_s company, Mikro Systems of Charlottesville, Virginia, perfected the process now used to fabricate advanced parts for medical and security imaging devices. The company added 37 jobs as a result of its NASA work.