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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 218 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Hydrogen Recovery System Completed 7 Commodity Recovery — 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Resin for Self-Healing High Temperature Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials HARP Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robot Application Development Using a Library of Reactive Control Actions Completed 4 Execution and Control TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Enhancing UTM Ecosystem Resiliency and Robustness Completed 6 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles CAL Analytics 2026-01-22 —
Rugged, Compact Atomic Clock Laser with a Path Toward Flight Qualification Completed 4 Lasers Stable Laser Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-Power-Consumption Integrated PPM Laser Transmitter Completed 4 Lasers RAM Photonics 2026-01-22 —
Electrolytic Method for Tungsten Coating of Uranium Oxide Spheres Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactive Innovations, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Cryomechanical Preconcentration System for Trace Gas Analysis Completed 9 Environment Sensors Aerodyne Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Visual AI for Controlled Environment Agriculture Completed 3 Transformative Health and Performance Concepts Bloomfield 2026-01-22 —
X-ray Detection and Processing Models for Spacecraft Navigation and Timing Completed 3 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Microcosm, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Robust Two-Phase Pumped Loop With Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Radiators Completed 4 Heat Transport Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Field Programmable Short Wave Infrared Photodetectors Completed 5 Quantum Communications SK Infrared, LLC 2026-01-22 —
New Combustion CFD Algorithms Designed for Rapid GPU Computations Completed 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Aerodyne Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Power High Thrust Ion Thruster (HPHTion): 50 CM Ion Thruster for Near-Earth Applications Completed 5 Electromagnetic Propulsion ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Long-Life, Hydrophilic, Antimicrobial Coating for Condensing Heat Exchangers Completed 4 Coatings Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Lightweight, Non-Venting, Phase-Change Heat Exchanger Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Thermopile Detector Radiation Hardened Readout Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Black Forest Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Nanotube Electrodes for Dust Mitigation Completed 4 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Eikos, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Femtosecond-Laser Fabrication of Waveguides in Laser Materials Completed 3 Lasers Aktiwave 2026-01-22 —
Effects of Ride Quality on UAM Passenger Acceptance Completed 3 Aeroacoustics Crown Consulting, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Production of Mature Highland Lunar Regolith Simulant Completed 4 Special Materials Plasma Processes, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Sediment Sequestration for Hot Water Drilling Cryobots Completed 3 Surface Mobility Stone Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Virtual Redundancy for Safety Assurance in the Presence of Sensor Failures Completed 6 Fault Response Barron Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Detecting Anomalies by Fusing Voice and Operations Data Completed 6 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Robust Analytics 2026-01-22 —
Novel Additively-Manufactured Ultra-High Temperature Composite with Microgravity Improved Grain Structure (NACE HHS MICRO) Completed 7 Manufacturing Processes Nanoarmor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
3D-FPA Hybridization Improvements Completed 7 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Passive Phase Separations for Space Exploration Completed 6 Water Recovery and Management IRPI, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Onboard Failsafe System to Mitigate Common Failure Modes of Experimental SUAS Completed 6 Navigation Sensors Prioria, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Small Satellite Lunar Communications and Navigation System Completed 6 Revolutionary PNT Technologies University of Colorado Boulder 2026-01-22 —
Scalable Hall Thruster Power Processing Unit for Greater than 12kW using Wide Range Power Bricks Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Colorado Power Electronics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Metallic Fiber Papers for Gas Diffusion Layers Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Giner, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
ISS Testbed for Capillary Two-Phase Flow Device Qualification Completed 5 Water Recovery and Management IRPI, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High-Efficiency Modified Collins Cycle Cryocooler Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Triton Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Nanowire Photovoltaic Devices Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Firefly Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Passively-Cooled Hyperspectral Infrared Detectors and Arrays Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes EPIR Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robocast Zeolitic Lattices For Reversible CO2 Sorbent Monoliths Completed 4 Atmosphere Revitalization Robocasting Enterprises, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Efficient and Secure Network and Application Communications for Small Spacecraft Completed 7 Disruption Tolerant Networking Antara Teknik, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Cold Atom Laser Module (CALM) Completed 7 Timekeeping and Time Distribution AOSense, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Unstructured, High-Order Scheme Module with Low Dissipation Flux Difference Splitting for Noise Prediction Completed 6 Aeroacoustics CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Data Concentrator for Modular and Distributed Control of Propulsion Systems Completed 3 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Orbital Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
LiDAR-based Navigation and Mapping for Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, Docking Completed 5 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight Metal Rubber Wire and Cable for Space Power Systems Completed 2 Distribution and Transmission Nanosonic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-power, ultra-fast deep learning neuromorphic chip for unmanned aircraft systems Completed 3 Cognitive Computers Mentium Technologies Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dynamically Reconfigurable Electrical Power System(EPS) with Integrated Thermal Management and High Voltage Capability for Small Spacecraft Completed 6 Management and Control QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reversible Copolymer Materials for FDM 3-D Printing of Non-Standard Plastics Completed — Sustainable Manufacturing Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Wireless, Low Mass, High Sensitivity Sensing Sheet for Structural Sensing and Long Term Analysis Completed 4 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact High Pulse Energy Single Frequency Fiber Amplifier Completed 3 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An Infrared Fiber-Optic Raman Sensor for Field Detecting of Organic Biomarkers Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Crystal Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Simultaneous Temperature and Velocity Diagnostic for Reacting Flows Completed 3 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions MetroLaser, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Room Temperature Electrolyzers For Oxygen Generation On Mars Completed 4 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage Dioxide Materials, 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.