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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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21,176 projects harvested so far — page 236 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Integral Neutron and Gamma Shield Material Completed 3 Materials for Extreme Environments MillenniTEK, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low-power Broadband Digitizer for Millimeter-Wave Sensor Array Readout Completed 4 Data Acquisition Systems HYPRES, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Precision Retardant Delivery Completed 3 Aircraft Avionics Systems KIHOMAC 2026-01-22 —
High-Speed Radiation Tolerant Avalanche Photodiodes Based on InGaN for Space Altimeter Systems Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Integrated Micro Sensors, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hiawatha OnBoard Electronic Sensing Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Nokomis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Sealing Device Completed — Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces NASA Headquarters 2026-01-22 —
Multiscale Eulerian-Lagrangian Spray Methodology Coupled with Flamelet Models for Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Completed 5 Cold Gas Streamline Numerics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dust-Free Fabrication of Uranium and Plutonium Oxide Powders for Radioisotope Systems, Nuclear Thermal Rockets, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, and Surface Power Reactors Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Amphionic, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Power efficient, miniature mid-infrared sensor Completed 5 Lasers Pendar Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Adaptive Venturi for Surge Pressure Mitigation Completed 5 Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integration of Complex Geometry, 3D Woven Preforms via Innovative Stitching Technique Completed 3 Thermal Protection Systems T.E.A.M., Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Large Civil Tiltrotor Wake Hazard Assessment Tool Completed 5 Flying and Handling Qualities Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics OFDR Sensing System Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Luna Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Reliability Interconnects for Advanced Integrated Circuits in Additive Manufactured Electronics Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Sciperio, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multifunctional Structural Composites for Radiation Shielding Completed 4 Protection Systems Applied Poleramic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Move to Talk, Talk to Move: Tightly Integrated Communication and Controls for Coordinated Swarms of Small Spacecraft Completed 4 Integrated Network Management Colorado School of Mines 2026-01-22 —
High Temperature Additively Manufactured ROM for Venus Surface Operation Completed 5 Electronics Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Robust, Low Power High Sensitivity Gas Sensor Completed 5 Environment Sensors Amethyst Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Regenerable Carbon Filter Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization UMPQUA Research Company 2026-01-22 —
Spacecraft On-orbit Advanced Refueling and Storage Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies VALOR ROBOTICS, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Multi Phase Flow Decomposition and Imaging Using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography Sensors Completed 5 Long-Duration Health Tech4Imaging, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Radiation-Tolerant Vertical-Cavity Amplifying Detectors for Time-of-Flight Laser Rangefinders Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Aerius Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency Hall Thruster Discharge Power Converter Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Photonic Integrated Circuit Assisted Single Photon Detectors (PICA SPDs) Completed 4 Detector Development Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A High Efficiency 1kWatt GaN Amplifier for P-Band Pulsed Applications Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Integra Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Membrane Water Recuperator Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Wolf Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Estimation and Prediction of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories Completed 3 Targeting Algorithms Numerica Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Wire-laser metal 3D printed bearings for extreme environments Completed 5 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Multiscale Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Regenerators for 10 Kelvin Cryocoolers Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Atlas Scientific 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight Inflatable Structural Airlock (LISA) Completed 3 Habitation Systems CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Instrument for Airborne Measurement of Carbonyl Sulfide Completed 6 Environment Sensors Southwest Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Resiliency Evaluation, Assessment and Contingency Tools Completed 4 Fault Response VINMA Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Two Phase Flow Meter for Monitoring Cryogenic Fuel Boiling During Tank Transfer using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Tech4Imaging, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Analytical Tools for the Characterization of Fundamental Jet Noise Sources and Structures Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
CrossLink Completed 3 Surface Mobility Motiv Space Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SIMPLE STEPS to FabLab Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Redwire Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact Transmitter for Methane and Wind Measurements Completed 3 Lasers Beyond Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Long-Life MEAs and Catalysts for PEM Electrolyzers/Fuel Cells Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Giner, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Space Plastic Recycling System Completed 4 In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair Redwire Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Efficient Design and Optimization of a Flow Control System for Supersonic Mixed Compression Inlets Completed 6 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions SynGenics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Optical gyroscopes and accelerometers: enhanced response and squeezed noise Completed 4 Navigation Sensors Lenzner Research, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Reversible Adhesion Concept for In-Space Assembly Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly ATSP Innovations 2026-01-22 —
Gecko Inspired Adhesives for Enhanced Dexterity of Robotic Manipulation Systems Completed 6 Collaborative Mobility nanoGriptech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Optical Detection of Lightning via Diffractography Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Lumos Imaging Inc 2026-01-22 —
Improved Abrasion Resistance of High Temperature Seals Completed 4 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Jackson Bond Enterprises LLC 2026-01-22 —
High-Resolution Source Characterization and Modeling for Efficient Prediction of Propulsion-Airframe Aeroacoustics Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries ATA Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Neptune modular rockets for breakthrough low-cost space access Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Interorbital Systems 2026-01-22 —
PowerCube: Integrated Power, Propulsion, and Pointing for CubeSats Completed 5 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Tethers Unlimited Inc 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Attitude Control and Maneuvering for Deep Space SmallSats Completed 6 Earth Storable Propellants Purdue University-Main Campus 2026-01-22 —
Solid State Li-S Battery Based on Novel Polymer/Mineral Composite Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Chemtronergy, LLC 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.