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Spinoff story
Modeling Software Helps Rocket Scientists Go with the Flow
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
To facilitate development of the Fastrac turbo pump, in the mid-1990s Marshall Space Flight Center coded the Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program (GFSSP) to model computational fluid dynamics. The software is free to government agencies and contractors, and Concepts NREC Inc., based in White River Junction, Vermont, licensed the technology and now sells the code to other entities as part of its turbomachinery software package.