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History
This center was established in 1998 as the Commercial Space Center for Engineering, one of NASA's 16 Commercial Space Centers. The center's original mission was to work with industry to help them design and build commercially useful engineering research and technology development payloads for the EXPRESS Pallet on the International Space Station (ISS). The EXPRESS Pallet is a planned external site on the ISS to which palletized payloads can be attached and removed via the ISS robotic arm (see example images).  In 2002, we changed our name to the Spacecraft Technology Center (STC) and focused on developing dual use technologies for industry and NASA. For example, we teamed with industry and Texas A&M researchers to design, build, and fly a prototype star tracker on STS-107. This hardware operated successfully. The technology demonstrated on this flight led to development of a unique, dual field-of-view star tracker and to the spin-off of a high-tech company, StarVision Technologies, Inc. |
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