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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 219 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
High Frequency Measurements in Shock-Wave/Turbulent Boundary-Layer Interaction at Duplicated Flight Conditions Completed 4 Heat Transport Tao of Systems Integration, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Titan Aerial Research Vehicle for Scientific Exploration Completed 3 Below-Surface Mobility Aster Labs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Virtual MemComputing Machine Completed 9 High-Performance Data Analytics Platform MemComputing, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Array for High Efficiency Power Beaming Completed 5 Lasers MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Automated Flight Safety Inference Engine (AFSIE) System Completed 4 Test, Operations, and Systems Safety Millennium Engineering and Integration Company 2026-01-22 —
High brightness, waveguide-based IR quantum light sources Completed 3 Quantum Communications ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Hybrid Upper Stage for NanoLaunch Vehicles Completed 6 Hybrids Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fast, Parallel, High-Quality Voronoi Mesh Generator Completed 7 Aerodynamics CASCADE Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for PEM Electrolyzers Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Optical Metrology of Aspheric and Freeform Mirrors Completed 5 Mirror Systems OptiPro Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Scalable Gravity Offload System Completed 6 Ground Analogs for Space and Surface Systems Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
DSM Autonomy System Completed 5 — Emergent Space Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Long Life, Long Stroke, Low Power, and High Torque-Force Actuators (TriLHFA) for Extreme Space Environments Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies PolyK Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Auditory Presentation of H/OZ Critical Flight Data Completed 6 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Emerald Sky Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Energy Density Lithium Air Batteries for Oxygen Concentrators Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Bettergy Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Optical Communication Array Transceiver Completed 4 Optimetrics Relative Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Design and Development of High Gain AlGaN Avalanche Photodiode Arrays Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Radiative Materials Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines PC Krause and Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Deft Control Software (DCS) for Remote Robotic Operations with Underlying Structure Completed 5 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction BluHaptics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Variable Heat Rejection Loop Heat Pipe radiator Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Scale-up of Nano-Engineered Anti-Reflection Coating Process for Large Plastic Optics Completed 4 Mirror Systems Nanotrons Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Cuberover for Lunar Science and Exploration Completed 6 — Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Temperature Flexible Aerogel Insulation for Extreme HIAD Environments Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators S. D. Miller and Associates, PLLC 2026-01-22 —
Collective Inference Based Data Analytics System for Post Operations Analysis Phase II Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies ATAC 2026-01-22 —
Lunar Spectral Irradiance Monitor Completed 5 Optical Components Resonon, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Parallelization of Sigma Point and Particle Filters Completed 4 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Conjugate Etalon Spectral Imager (CESI) & Scanning Etalon Methane Mapper (SEMM) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Wavefront LLC 2026-01-22 —
Efficient Realistic Conjunction Analysis (EReCA) Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering Stellar Science Ltd Co 2026-01-22 —
Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) Completed 6 — Advanced Space, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Ceramic Springs Completed 3 Ramjet/Scramjet TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SOAR - Stereo Obstacle Avoidance Rig Completed 6 Execution and Control Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) 2026-01-22 —
Laser Stethoscope for Use in Noisy Spacecraft Environments Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Characterization and Modeling of Residual Stress and Cold Work Evolution in PM Nickel Base Disk Superalloy Completed 5 Mirror Systems Lambda Research 2026-01-22 —
Innovations for the Affordable Conductive Thermal Control Material Systems for Space Applications Completed 6 Heat Rejection and Storage Applied Material Systems Engineering, Inc. (AMSENG) 2026-01-22 —
Novel Active Combustion Control Concept for High-Frequency Modulation of Atomized Fuel Flow Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
“Dark” Photovoltaic Cells for Space Power Generation Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Extreme Temperature Stitched Structures Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fiber MOPA for Ascends Completed 6 Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integration into the NAS Completed 6 Lightweight Concepts Metron Aviation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hydrogen-Based Energy Conservation System Completed 6 Commodity Recovery Skyre, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hydrogen-Based Energy Conservation System Completed 2 Commodity Recovery — 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Flow Measurement System for Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies En'Urga Inc 2026-01-22 —
A high performance, electric pump-fed LOX / RP propulsion system Completed — Cryogenic Propulsion Astra Space, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Adaptive bio-inspired navigation for planetary exploration Completed 4 State Estimation Neurala LLC 2026-01-22 —
Additive Manufactured Very Light Weight Diamond Turned Aspheric Mirror Completed 6 Mirror Systems Dallas Optical Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact Energy Conversion Module Completed 5 Dynamic Energy Conversion Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Fidelity Prediction of Launch Vehicle Lift-off Acoustic Environment Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Non-Catalytic Nanocomposite Based Self-Healing Material for Multifunctional Composite Completed 4 Impact, Damage, and Radiation-Resistant Systems Nanotrons Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Cathode for Electric Space Propulsion Utilizing Iodine as Propellant Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion E-beam, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lunar Missions Enabled by Chemical-Electrospray Propulsion Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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.