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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 203 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Plasma Fairings for Quieting Aircraft Landing Gear Noise Completed 5 Aeroacoustics Innovative Technology Applications Co. 2026-01-22 —
Structural Nervous System, Phase 2E Completed 5 — Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
DAAS: Data Analytics for Assurance of Safety Completed 3 — Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fan Duct Heat Exchanger for Turbine Cooling Air Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies N&R Engineering 2026-01-22 —
Gecko Articulated Debris Gripper and Deorbiter Enhanced Technology Completed 4 Orbital Debris Tracking Orbotic Systems Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thermal Protection Systems Nondestructive Evaluation Tool Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Physical Optics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Fiber-Based Adsorbents Tailored for PLSS Ammonia and Formaldehyde Removal Completed 6 Portable Life Support System Serionix 2026-01-22 —
Polybenzoxazine Materials for Radiation Shielding Completed 3 Protection Systems Material Answers LLC 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Multi-Physics and Advanced Diagnostics for NTR Development Completed 5 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Little Prairie Services LLC 2026-01-22 —
CoDLiR: Compact Digitizing Lidar Receiver Completed 4 Lasers Nalu Scientific, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low-SWAP Ka-band Antenna for Inter-Satellite Links Completed 3 Innovative Antennas Kymeta Government Solutions 2026-01-22 —
High-Fidelity Prediction of Launch Vehicle Lift-off Acoustic Environment Completed 7 Environment Testing CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Visible Camera for Extreme Radiation Environments Completed 4 Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Space Micro, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Proximity Glare Suppression using Carbon Nanotubes Completed 6 — Lambda Consulting/Advanced Nanophotonics 2026-01-22 —
Thermal Protection Systems Nondestructive Evaluation Tool Completed 6 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Physical Optics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
A 10GHz 4k Frequency Bin Polarimetric Spectrometer ASIC Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Stack and Advanced MEAs for High-Yield, Long-Life Helium Reclamation System Completed 5 Commodity Recovery FuelCellsEtc 2026-01-22 —
A Networked Flight Dynamics Platform for Collaborative Design and Optimization Completed 3 Quantum Communications Nabla Zero Labs 2026-01-22 —
A Formal Approach to User Interface Design Using Hybrid System Theory Completed 6 Hybrid Electric Systems Optimal Synthesis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Injector for LOX-GH Stable Combustion at Low Pressure and High Velocity Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Rocket Propulsion Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Thermal control for energy storage in extreme environments Completed 4 Heat Transport Nanohmics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SPHERICAL COVERAGE DUAL MODE SENSOR FOR UAS SEPARATION ASSURANCE Completed 4 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices Epsilon Lambda Electronics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Integrating Standard Operating Procedures with Spacecraft Automation Completed 6 Execution and Control TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Individualized, Noninvasive Speech Indicators for Tracking Elevations in Stress (INSITES) Completed 6 Behavioral Health and Performance Quantum Applied Science and Research Inc 2026-01-22 —
Neuroevolution of Electronic Liquid State Machines Completed 6 Cognitive Networking Warrant Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Robust Prediction of High Lift Using Surface Vorticity Completed 6 — Research in Flight 2026-01-22 —
Multiphase Effluents Flowmeter Completed 4 Waste Management Hedgefog Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Non-Parametric, Closed-Loop Testing of Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Completed 3 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling Numerica Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Enhanced Detection, Tracking, and Integration for the ATCOM Video Processing Platform Completed 8 V&V of Ground, Test, and Surface Systems EM Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Extreme Environment Tribological Characterization of Advanced Bearing Materials Completed 6 Cryogenic Propulsion ATSP Innovations 2026-01-22 —
Novel High Pressure Pump-on-a-Chip Technology Completed 8 Environment Sensors HJ Science & Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Defining Handling Qualities of Unmanned Aerial Systems Completed 3 Flying and Handling Qualities Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Engine Control Empirical/Analytical Verification Tools Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Long-Range Thermal 3D Perception in Low Contrast Environments Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Elphel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Flow Analysis Tools for Transient Solid Rocket Motor Simulations Completed 5 Hybrids Tetra Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Maneuvering Environment for Tiltwing Aircraft with Distributed Electric Propulsion Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Embedded Dynamics 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Upper Stage for Affordable Nano/Micro Launch Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies TGV Rockets, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Fight Dynamics and Control-Enhanced Aircraft Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Completed 3 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Aerial Drone Platform for Exploration of Titan Completed 5 Above-Surface Mobility Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Metal Matrix Composite Feedstock for Advanced Fiber Placement Process Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Superconducting Electric Boost Pump for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Precision Remote Sensor for Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Mesa Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
DiSCO: Dual In-Situ Spectroscopy and Coring Completed 7 Destination Resource Exploration Impossible Sensing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
38% Efficient Low-Cost Six-Junction GaAs/InP Solar Cells Using Double Epitaxial Lift-Off Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Defect-controlled AlGaN APDs for UV photon counting and space exploration Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Adroit Materials 2026-01-22 —
Six-Axis Force-Torque Transducer for Mars 2018 Mission Completed 5 Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, and Testing of Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture ATI Industrial Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Bonding and Analysis of Composite TRAC Booms for NASA Science Missions Completed 3 Lightweight Concepts Roccor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Medical Response Agent (AMRA) for Prolonged Field Care in Space Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Nahlia Inc 2026-01-22 —
Next Generation Fiber Coherent Lidar System for Wake Vortex Detection Completed 5 Lasers SibellOptics 2026-01-22 —
Particle Flow Physics Modeling for Extreme Environments Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation 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.