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Spinoff story

Software Analyzes Complex Systems in Real Time

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

VIASPACE Inc., of Pasadena, California, licensed the Spacecraft Health Inference Engine (SHINE) software from NASA. It was designed to monitor, analyze, and diagnose real-time and non-real-time systems and, in addition to having been used on at least eight major NASA missions, has found application in the military and industrial realms.