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NASA Technology Projects

Search NASA's TechPort inventory — every technology R&D project the agency has tracked, active and completed. Harvested gradually in the background (TechPort only exposes one project per API call, ~21,000 total), so the list grows over time rather than all at once.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 202 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Robust, high-performance, contaminants-tolerant, reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells for producing Lunar and Martian propellant and generating power Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Special Power Sources LLC 2026-01-22 —
A Low Cost High Specific Stiffness Mirror Substrate Completed 5 Mirror Systems United Materials and Systems 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Manufacturing of Intermediate Temperature, Direct Methane Oxidation Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Durable Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Completed 5 Dynamic Energy Conversion ITN Energy Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Additive Manufacturing of PEEK and Fiber-Reinforced PEEK for NASA Applications and Custom Medical Devices Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Actuated Medical, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Stable ALLVAR Alloy Development for Space Telescopes Completed 3 Mirror Systems Thermal Expansion Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Miniature 70-W Brushless Motor-Controller for Compact Extraterrestrial-Based Actuation Completed 4 Surface Mobility Barrett Technology, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Additively-Manufactured, Net-Shape Adsorbent Beds for Carbon Dioxide Removal Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization HiFunda, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Colliding-Jet Fluidic Actuators for Active Flow Control Completed 3 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Advanced Fluidics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Fission Stirling Converter Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion American Superconductor Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Photocatalytic Oxidation Reactor System Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Pioneer Astronautics 2026-01-22 —
Improved Passive Phased Array Sensor System for Enhanced Health Monitoring of Large Complex Structures Completed 4 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Antech Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing of a deep throttling methane injector. Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion TGV Rockets, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Extreme Environment Sampling System Deployment Mechanism Completed 3 Surface Mobility Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
World-Class Visualizations in GMAT Completed 3 Simulation-Based Training and Decision Support Systems Emergent Space Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Full-Scale eVTOL Acoustic Measurements, Modeling, Scaling, and Validation Completed 5 Aeroacoustics Blue Ridge Research and Consulting 2026-01-22 —
Payload Accelerator for Cubesat Endeavors V-R3x (V-R3x) Completed 9 Innovative RF Technologies — 2026-01-22 —
Electromagnetic Models and Software for the Nondestructive Evaluation of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites Completed 6 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Victor Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
ROBOT: Rules Oriented Blockchain Operations Transactor Completed 5 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Emergent Space Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low-Power Radiation Hardened Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Microcontroller Technology Capable of Operating on Extreme Temperature Environments Completed 3 Operational Trust Building Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Increasing Autonomy with Automated Trajectory Negotiation Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
3D Geolocation of Current Pulses in Clouds Using a 6-Axis EB Vector Sensor Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors QUASAR Federal Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Real-time Hazard Detection via Deep Learning Completed 5 Lasers Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter-Based Polarimetric Spectral Sensor With Progressive Algorithm For Material Analysis and Mapping Completed 6 Environment Sensors Brimrose Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Integration of Fast Predictive Model and SLM Process Development Chamber Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Universal Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
SPHERES Mars Orbiting Sample Return External Orbiting Capture Completed 6 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Flight and Ground Systems Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Low Coherence Wavefront Probe for Nanometer Level Free-Form Metrology Completed 6 Optical Components Apre Instruments, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Component Remediation System for Generating Potable Water Onboard Spacecrafts Completed 6 Water Recovery and Management Fractal Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Mid-Infrared Sources Enabled by Waveguides Written with Femtosecond Lasers Completed 3 Lasers Aktiwave 2026-01-22 —
Low-Cost Launch Propulsion Stage and Deployment Bus for Smallsats Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Systima Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Visual Data Mining of Robot Performance Data Completed 7 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Development and Flight Testing of an Automated Upset Recovery System Completed 4 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Barron Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Efficient In-band Diode-pumped Q-switched Solid State Laser for Methane Detection Completed 4 Lasers Princeton Lightwave, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Improved Forecasting of Solar Particle Events and their Effects on Space Electronics Completed 4 Space Weather Prediction CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Digital Pixel Readout Integrated Circuit for High Dynamic Range Infrared Imaging Applications Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Senseeker Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SmallSat Precision Navigation With Low-Cost MEMS IMU Swarms Completed 5 Attitude Estimation Sensors Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
Space Electronics Operating at High Temperatures and Radiation Levels Completed 6 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight, Reliable Cryogenic Screen Channel Acquisition Devices with High Expulsion Efficiency Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Radiation Tolerant High Voltage Silicon Carbide Switches Completed 5 Advanced Electronic Parts CoolCAD Electronics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Acoustic Resonance Reaction Control Thruster (ARCTIC) Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion ORBITEC 2026-01-22 —
Neural Net Control for Electric Propulsion in 3-Body Orbits Completed 4 Optimetrics Advanced Space, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Solar Array for a Starshade Inner Disk Completed 3 Structures and Antennas Tendeg, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Speed Digitizer for Remote Sensing Completed — Data Acquisition Systems Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Miniature Optical Isolator Completed 7 Optical Components Physical Optics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Single Mode Ultra Large Mode Area Fiber Lasers with large energy storage (HE-ULMA) Completed 4 Lasers Optical Engines, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robonaut Challenge Completed — Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
Enhanced Codeset Passive Wireless SAW Sensor-Tags and System Completed 3 Test Instruments and Sensors SenSanna Incorporated(formerly ASR&D) 2026-01-22 —
Highly Compatible, Additively Manufactured LOX Injectors Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Iodine Satellite (iSat) Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Reduced Cost Composite Hot Structures with Oxidation Protection Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Plasma Processes, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Radiation Hard Scintillation Materials for Planetary Science and Astrophysics Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
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ℹ️ About this data
  • Sourced from NASA TechPort, NASA's public technology-project inventory. Harvested gradually into our own database — TechPort's API only returns one project's full detail per call, so ~21,000 projects take a while to cover.
  • TRL (Technology Readiness Level) is NASA's 1-9 scale for how mature a technology is: 1-3 is basic research/concept, 4-6 is lab/relevant-environment validation, 7-9 is flight-proven. Lower TRL generally means more room for outside research contribution; higher TRL means something closer to a finished, licensable technology.
  • "Active" vs "Completed" reflects TechPort's own project status, not funding availability — see the insights page for how to actually act on this.
  • Contribution potential is our estimate, not NASA data: an Active project at a low TRL has more room for outside research involvement than a flight-proven one. High = Active + TRL 1-3, Medium = Active + TRL 4-6, Low = Active + TRL 7-9. "Active" does not mean NASA is seeking external contributors or that funding exists — treat this purely as a shortlisting aid.
  • Last updated is TechPort's own lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".
💻 Show API usage example (cURL)
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/nasa-tech-projects/api?q=laser&status=Active&sort=trl&page=1"

Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.