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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 205 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Technologies Enabling Urban Air Mobility All-Weather Vertiport Operations Completed 2 Aeroacoustics The Innovation Laboratory, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Compact Drone-Based Instrument Sonde for Venus Balloon Missions Completed 3 Environment Sensors Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Microscale Weather Based Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Optimization System Completed 5 Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems Aeris, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Camber Configuration Control for Performance Optimization (C3PO) Completed 4 Flexible Material Systems Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thin Flexible IMM Solar Array Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc 2026-01-22 —
GaAs Schottky Diode Technology for Terahertz Harmonic Mixers Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Virginia Diodes, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Miniaturized High Performance Optical Gyroscope Completed 5 Navigation Sensors Gener8, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Enhanced Passive Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System Completed 7 Detectors and Focal Planes Antech Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Flexible Graphene-Based Digital Beam Forming Phased-Array Antennas Completed 5 Innovative Antennas Omega Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Low Profile, Flat-Packaged Microphones for In-Flight Aeroacoustic Measurements Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation 2026-01-22 —
An Intelligent and Wireless Communication Enabled Plasma Probe for Full Scale Rocket Testing Completed 6 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
New Approach to Science Data Discovery in Petascale Systems Completed 7 Semantic Technologies SciberQuest, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Enabling Technology for Thermal Protection on HIAD and Other Hypersonic Missions Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials S. D. Miller and Associates, PLLC 2026-01-22 —
Configurable, Multi-Beam, Doppler Ladar Based Precision Landing Sensor Completed 5 State Estimation Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reconfigurable L-band Radar Transceiver using Digital Signal Synthesis Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible, Phase Change Fabric for Deployable Decelerators Completed 1 Flexible Material Systems S. D. Miller and Associates, PLLC 2026-01-22 —
Integration of Notification with 3D Visualization of Rover Operations Completed 6 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Anomaly Detection via Topological Feature Map Completed 4 Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Highly Efficient Electrochemical Cryogenic Purge Gas Recovery System Completed 5 Commodity Recovery — 2026-01-22 —
Articulating Solar Panel Energy System (ASPEN) Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Roccor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Tunable Single Frequency UV Laser Completed 4 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Green, Safe, Multi-Pulse Solid Motor (MPM) for CubeSats Completed 5 Solids Digital Solid State Propulsion Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dynamic ASE Modeling and Optimization of Aircraft with SpaRibs Completed 4 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts M4 Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Visualizing and Comparing Exploration Plan Alternatives and Change Effects (xPACE) Completed 4 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Non Thermal Plasma Assisted Catalytic Reactor for CO2 Methanation Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Highly Flexible, Fire Resistant HybridSil Foams for Next Generation Fireproofing, Insulation, and Energy Absorption NASA Applications Completed 6 Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery Nanosonic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fully Adaptive Slit-tube Structures with Electrically Integrated Smart Joints Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Roccor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Miniature passive thermal control valve for mixing or splitting single-phase fluid Completed 4 Heat Transport Kalsi Engineering Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors for Thermal Protection Systems Completed 6 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation 2026-01-22 —
A Self-Regulating Freezable Heat Exchanger for Spacecraft Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Photonic antenna coupled middlewave infrared photodetector and focal plane array with low noise and high quantum efficiency Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Applied NanoFemto Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Hypergol Sensor Using Passive Wireless SAW Devices Completed 3 Test Instruments and Sensors SenSanna Incorporated(formerly ASR&D) 2026-01-22 —
A Supported Liquid Membrane System for Steady State CO2 Control in a Spacecraft Cabin Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Reaction Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Highly Accurate Sensor for High-Purity Oxygen Determination Completed 6 Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses Los Gatos Research 2026-01-22 —
Antimicrobial Coating for Metallic Surfaces Completed 4 Modeling and Simulation for Robots Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Waveguide Based, High Power Pockels Cell Modulator for Sub-Nanosecond Pulse Slicing Completed 4 Innovative Signal Modulations ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Atomic System for Quantum Secure Communications Completed 3 Quantum Communications ColdQuanta, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Implementation of a Layer-by-Layer Manufacturing Apparatus for the Assembly of Protein-Based Retinal Implants in Low Earth Orbit Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis LambdaVision, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Modeling Nonlinear Viscoelasticity and Time-Dependent Yielding of Thin-Ply Composites Completed 4 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces AnalySwift 2026-01-22 —
Health Interrogation for Space Structures (HISS) Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Invocon, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Safety Analysis For Evaluating (SAFE) sUAS Completed 3 — Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Versatile Attitude Control Actuators for Sub-Milliarcsecond Precision Pointing Completed 4 Fault Response Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Variable Gas-Conductance Radiator: Lightweight, High Turndown Spacecraft Radiator Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Quest Thermal Group 2026-01-22 —
Hydrogen Recovery System Completed — Commodity Recovery Skyre, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Vorticity State Estimation For Aeroelastic Control Completed 3 Aerodynamics Tao of Systems Integration, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Temperature Superconducting Thin Films for IR Detectors Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes STAR Cryoelectronics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
A Multifunctional Hypersonic Leading Edge with Integrated Thermal Management Completed 3 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts ThermAvant Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
In-Situ Monitoring and Process Control (AMARU) Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Made in Space, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An intelligent, real time, fluid composition sensor for monitoring of helium purge processes Completed 4 Commodity Recovery Sporian Microsystems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Information Processing for Enhanced Safety in the NAS Completed 6 — Metis Technology Solutions, 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.