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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 220 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Lightweight High Efficiency Electric Motors and Actuators for Low Temperature Mobility and Robotics Applications Completed 5 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices QM Power, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Designer Fluid for use in a Single Loop Variable Heat Rejection Thermal Control System Completed 6 Heat Transport Mainstream Engineering Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Small Spacecraft Integrated Power System with Active Thermal Control Completed 5 Thermal Control Components and Systems University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Time-Series Data Analytics Approach to Improve the Forecast of Irregular Operations for Airlines and Air Traffic Management Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Automation Sciences, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Iodine Stabilized Seed Laser for Space Applications Completed 6 Lasers ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Improved Yield, Performance and Reliability of High-Actuator-Count Deformable Mirrors Completed 3 Optical Components Boston Micromachines Corporation 2026-01-22 —
AutoNav Mark 4: Autonomous Navigation Software Completed 7 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Blue Sun Enterprise, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Active Flow Control System for Commercial Aircraft Using Synthetic Jet Completed 6 — Actasys, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Highly Sensitive Flash LADAR Camera Completed 4 State Estimation and Monitoring Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Helium-Hydrogen Recovery System Completed 6 Commodity Recovery TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cubesat Collapsible Composite Antenna Completed 5 Innovative Antennas GATR Technologies 2026-01-22 —
An Integrated Precision Attitude Determination and Control System Completed 5 Navigation Sensors Langley Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Enhanced Fabrication Processes Development for High Actuator Count Deformable Mirrors Completed 4 Mirror Systems Boston Micromachines Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Row Column Phased Array Architecture for Low Cost, Low Profile Millimeter Wave Phased Array Antennas Completed 4 Flight and Ground Systems Agile RF Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Hybrid Stage Completed 5 Hybrids Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
PreSound: UAV Diagnostic System Enabled by Acoustics and Vibration-Based Machine Learning Completed 5 Execution and Control Greensight, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Observation Platform for Dynamic Biomedical and Biotechnology Experiments using the ISS Light Microscopy Module Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Redwire Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Physics-Based Modeling Tools for Life Prediction and Durability Assessment of Advanced Materials Completed 4 Reliability and Sustainment Elder Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Affordable Small Satellite Launch Vehicle Reaction Control System Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Valley Tech Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Equipment for Solid State Stir Welding of High Temperature Materials Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Keystone Synergistic Enterprises, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis for In-Situ Water Analysis Completed 5 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Leiden Measurement Technology, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Manufacturing Decision Tree Model Optimization for Finishing Additive Manufactured Components Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact Vacuum Pump for Titan Lander Missions Completed — Optical Components Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Additively Manufactured Bimetallic Combustion Chambers for Small Launch Vehicles Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Rugged Multigas Sensor for Planetary Missions Completed 4 Environment Sensors Mesa Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Improved Attachment Design for Ceramic Turbine Blades Via Hybrid Concepts Completed 3 Lightweight Concepts N&R Engineering 2026-01-22 —
Active Radiation Shield Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
BABEL: V2V Standards Testbed for Enabling Advanced Air Mobility Completed 3 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Unmanned Experts, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ridge Waveguide Structures in Magnesium-Doped Lithium Niobate Completed 4 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SOUL System Maturation Completed 5 Sensing for Robotic Systems Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Radiation Alert Immediate Disclosure Completed 7 Monitoring Technology Invocon, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Aromatic Thermosetting coPolyester Composites for High Temperature and Cryogenic Applications Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines ATSP Innovations 2026-01-22 —
RF Crosslink for Relative Navigation and Time/Frequency Distribution Completed 6 Navigation Sensors M42 Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Novel, Regenerable Microlith Catalytic Reactor for CO2 Reduction via Bosch Process Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Precision Combustion, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Robust Biofilm-Biomat Reactor for Conversion of Mission-Relevant Feedstocks to Products Completed 6 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Sustainable Bioproducts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
A Two-Phase Pumped Loop Evaporator with Adaptive Flow Distribution for Large Area Cooling Completed 4 Heat Transport Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Narrow Bandpass Filters for Long Range Optical Telecommunications at 1064nm and 1550nm Completed 5 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Omega Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Devices and Methods for Collection and Concentration of Air and Surface Samples for Improved Detecti Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors InnovaPrep, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Simultaneous Skin Friction and Pressure Sensitive Paint Completed 6 Aerodynamics Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Resolution Detector for At-Wavelength Metrology of X-Ray Optics Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Radiation-Tolerant, High-Voltage Bidirectional DC-DC Converter PMIC Completed 3 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Millisecond X-ray Star Tracker Completed 3 Attitude Estimation Sensors CrossTrac Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Tunable, Reconfigurable Metamaterials Using Liquid Crystal Medium Completed 3 Optical Components Applied Optimization, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Improving Ion Engine Optics Through Additive Manufacturing Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Three-Dimensional Backscatter X-Ray Imaging System Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes ARIBEX 2026-01-22 —
Helium Recovery System Based on High-Performance Proton Exchange Membranes Completed 4 Launch, Recovery, and Reuse Amsen Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
An Ultrafine Airborne Particle Counter Completed 7 Atmosphere Revitalization Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An End-To-End Microfluidic Platform for Engineering Life Supporting Microbes in Space Exploration Missions Completed 6 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables HJ Science & Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multifunctional Tank Structure with Integral TPS Completed 3 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts Powdermet, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low Mass, Two-Phase Thermal Switch Completed 4 Heat Transport Advanced Cooling Technologies, 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.