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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 →

21,176 projects harvested so far — page 231 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Multi-functional Nano-Reinforced Self-Healing Polymer Matrix Composites Completed 3 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts Applied Sciences Inc 2026-01-22 —
A Multi-Depth Underwater Spectroradiometer for Validation of Remotely-Sensed Ocean Color and Estimation of Seawater Biogeochemical Properties Completed 6 Surface Mobility Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) 2026-01-22 —
Mesh-Free Contamination Transport Modeling using CAD Geometries Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Particle in Cell Consulting LLC 2026-01-22 —
Radioisotope Power Supply Completed 7 Heat Sources HI-Z TECHNOLOGY, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Open-Source Pipeline for Large-Scale Data Processing, Analysis and Collaboration Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Non-Destructive Evaluation Tool Position and Damage Visualization Completed 6 Structures and Antennas Luna Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Airport Operations for Safe and Efficient Use of Airports Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Optimal Synthesis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Performance Infrared Laser Sensor Technology Readiness & Maturation Project Completed 9 Detectors and Focal Planes Vista Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Compact, Waveguide Based Programmable Optical Comb Generator Completed 3 Optimetrics ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Aircraft Traction Inverter for Hybrid-Electric and All-Electric Megawatt-Class Vehicles Completed 4 Hybrid Electric Systems Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Unified In-Space Propulsion Framework for Prediction of Plume-Induced Spacecraft Environments Completed 5 Earth Storable Propellants CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Operational High Resolution Chemical Kinetics Simulation Completed 6 High-Performance Data Analytics Platform ParaTools, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Volume Production of Lightweight, Multi-Junction Solar Cells Using 6-inch GaAs Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
100W High Efficiency 1550 nm Pulsed Fiber Laser Completed 6 Lasers Polaronyx, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Wireless SAW Sensor Strain Gauge & Integrated Interrogator Design Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Mnemonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cryogenic Fluid Transfer Components Using Single Crystal Piezoelectric Actuators Completed — Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies TRS Ceramics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fast Transient Response High Voltage Power Converter for Space Applications Completed 4 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Anytime Summarization for Remote Robot Operations Completed 3 Execution and Control TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Requirements Management with Bidirectional Traceability in Modern Version Control Systems Completed 7 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Xwing, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Practical Non-contact ECG Electrodes for Prep-free Monitoring Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Cognionics 2026-01-22 —
Interferometric Star Tracker Completed 3 Navigation Sensors Optical Physics Company 2026-01-22 —
Passive Collapsible Contingency Urinal for Human Spaceflight Completed 6 Waste Management IRPI, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Radiation/Temperature Hardened Advanced Readout Array with Dynamic Power Modes Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes RNET Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Very large computer generated holograms for precision metrology of aspheric optical surfaces Completed 4 Optical Components Arizona Optical Metrology LLC 2026-01-22 —
Polymer Composites with Exceptional Atomic Oxygen Resistance for Low Earth Orbit Applications Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Material Answers LLC 2026-01-22 —
Soil Moisture Mapping sUAS Completed 7 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Black Swift Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Ionic Liquid-Assisted Electrochemical Extraction of Metals and Oxygen from Lunar Regolith Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Miniature Pointing and Tracking Isolation Platform Completed 4 Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies American GNC Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Radiation Hardened High Speed Fiber Optic Transceivers for Extreme Environments Completed 7 Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies Ultra Communications 2026-01-22 —
Improved Part-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing Processes Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes QuesTek Innovations, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Energy Single Frequency Resonant Amplifier Completed 5 Lasers Polaronyx, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
DataCell - A Solar Cell Integrated Modulating Retroreflector Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Blacksky Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
ROC-Rib Deployable Ka-Band Antenna for Nanosatellites Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Tendeg, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Operationalizing SAR for Agricultural Decision Support Completed 5 High-Performance Data Analytics Platform Applied Geosolutions, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Intelliface - Intelligent Assistant for Interfacing Diagnosis and Planning Systems Completed 6 Remote Interaction Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Computational Tool for Fan Broadband Noise Prediction Completed 4 Aeroacoustics D&P, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Design and Validation of High Data Rate Ka-Band Software Defined Radio of Small Satellite Completed 6 Radio Frequency University of Vermont 2026-01-22 —
Iodine Hall Thruster for Space Exploration Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible ELO Solar Cells with Ultra-High Specific Power and Areal Power Density Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Satellite Swarm Localization and Control via Random Finite Set Statistics Completed 6 — Aster Labs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Driver ASICs for Advanced Deformable Mirrors Completed 2 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies Microscale, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Low-Cost Method for Coating of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) Manufacturing of Complex High-Precision Components for Spaceflight Applications Using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Completed 4 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts Summit Information Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Acoustic Detection, Ranging and Improved Situational Awareness System Completed 6 Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems Scientific Applications & Research Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Domestic Blended Yarn Solution for 3D Woven Ablative TPS Completed 3 Thermal Protection Systems T.E.A.M., Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Nonplanar Spaceborne Additively Manufactured Electronics Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Inverter Array Turn-Less Motor Completed 7 Turboelectric Propulsion Polarix Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Generic FMS Platform for Evaluation of Autonomous Trajectory-Based Operation Concepts Completed 3 Goal and Task Negotiation Optimal Synthesis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Current Plasma Cathode for Efficient Space Propulsion Completed 8 Electrostatic Propulsion E-beam, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Development of Nanostructured Antireflection Coatings Technology for UV and IR Bands for Improved Detector Array and Sensor Performance Completed 6 Optical Components Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Electric Motor Fault Resilience Completed 2 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling PC Krause and Associates, 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.