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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.

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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 211 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Augmented Reality Medical Guidance for Space Operations Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis ArchieMD, Inc.
Distributed Extreme Environments Drive System (DEEDS) Completed 7 Surface Mobility Motiv Space Systems, Inc.
Integrated Sensors for the Evaluation of Structural Integrity of Inflatable Habitats Completed 6 Habitation Systems Nanosonic, Inc.
Joining of Tungsten Cermet Nuclear Fuel Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Plasma Processes, LLC
Polarization Entangled Photon Pair Source for Space-Based Quantum Communication Completed 4 Quantum Communications ADVR, Inc.
Passive Set-Point Thermal Control Skin for Spacecraft Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Physical Sciences, Inc.
Flexible Solar Modules with Low-Cost Prismatic Encapsulation Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc.
An Automated High Aspect Ratio Mesher for Computational Fluid Dynamics Completed 5 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Ciespace Corporation
Seeing Sound - Image Analysis of the Lift-off Acoustic Field Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Leaping Catch, LLC
CO2/H2O Sorbent Development for the xEMU Completed 4 Atmosphere Revitalization Paragon Space Development Corporation
Solar Plant Growth System for Food Production in Space Exploration Missions Completed 4 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Physical Sciences, Inc.
Modular Ultra-High Power Solar Array Architecture Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Deployable Space Systems, Inc
Collective Inference based Data Analytics System for Post Operations Analysis Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion ATAC
Scalable, Lightweight, Low-Cost Aero/Electrodynamic Drag Deorbit Module Completed 6 Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats Tethers Unlimited Inc
Interferometric Star Tracker for High Precision Pointing Completed 3 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Optical Physics Company
In Situ Diagnostic Sensors for Thermal Protection Systems Completed 4 Test Instruments and Sensors MesoScribe Technologies, Inc.
Multigas Diode Laser Instrument for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Completed 4 Environment Sensors Southwest Sciences, Inc.
Flexible Radiator (FlexRAD) Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Paragon Space Development Corporation
Atomic System for Quantum Secure Communications Completed 4 Quantum Communications ColdQuanta, Inc.
Low AC Loss Cryogenic Aluminum Conductors for Stators in Very High Speed Motors and Generators for Electric Aircraft Completed 4 Hybrid Electric Systems Hyper Tech Research, Inc.
Improved Rhenium Thrust Chambers for In-Space Propulsion Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Plasma Processes, LLC
Swift Ultra Long Endurance (SULE) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Completed 4 Solar Sails Swift Engineering, Inc.
Novel Compact Solid-State UV Laser for Ozone DIAL Completed 4 Lasers Q-Peak, Inc.
Drag Reduction through Pulsed Plasma Actuators Completed 4 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Lynntech, Inc.
Space-Hardened Seed Laser for Use in High Spectral Resolution Lidar Systems Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors ADVR, Inc.
Deep Learning Enhanced Fidelity InSAR Toolkit (DEFIT) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Lynntech, Inc.
Wide Temperature, High Voltage and Energy Density Capacitors for Aerospace Exploration Completed 6 Distribution and Transmission Powdermet, Inc.
Thermal Management System for Comet Sample Return Completed 5 TPS Instrumentation Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
An Optical Wake Vortex Detection System for Super-Density Airport Operation Completed Optical Scientific, Inc.
NAS Element Closure Planner Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies ATAC
Additively Manufactured Multi-Material Insert Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc.
Pulsed Radiation-Induced Acoustics for Non-Destructive Testing Completed 3 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Corvid Technologies
Single Fluid Tuned Winding Induction Motors Completed 6 Hybrid Electric Systems CGC Ultramarin, Ltd.
Multifunctional Self-Aligning Reversible Joint Using Space-Qualifiable Structural Fasteners Completed 5 Smart Materials Cornerstone Research Group, Inc.
An Extensible Tool for Estimating Space Weather Benchmarks Completed 7 High-Performance Data Analytics Platform Predictive Science, Inc.
Microfluidic Multichannel Flow Cytometer Completed Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Redwire Space Technologies, Inc.
Advanced Modular, Multi-Channel, High Speed Fiber Optic Sensing System for Acoustic Emissions Monitoring Completed 3 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation
A New Oxygen Recovery Process to Reduce Waste from Propellant Tanks Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables TDA Research, Inc.
Generation and Adaptive Modification of Anisotropic Meshes Completed 7 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Simmetrix, Inc.
Milliarcsecond Small Spacecraft Attitude Control System Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc.
Flexible Interconnecting NodEs for In-Space Structural Assembly (FINESS) Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Roccor, LLC
Hybrid Heat Pipes for High Heat Flux Applications Completed Heat Acquisition Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
Software-Defined Near-Earth Space Transceiver (SD-NEST) Completed 6 Space Micro, Inc.
MakerSat Completed 4 Tethers Unlimited Inc
World-Class Visualizations in GMAT Completed Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Emergent Space Technologies, LLC
Monolithic Truss Segment Completed 4 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Opterus Research and Development, Inc.
Advanced Composite Truss (ACT) Printing for Large Solar Array Structures Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes San Diego Composites, Inc.
Inexpensive Fault Tolerant Composable Unmanned Aircraft Systems Avionics Completed 7 Robot Software Windhover Labs
Context-Augmented Robotic Interaction Layer (CARIL) Phase II Completed 6 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction CHI Systems, Inc.
A Miniature Compressor for In-Situ Resource Utilization on Mars Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Creare, LLC
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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.
💻 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.