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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 237 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Polishing of X-Ray Optics	Completed	4	Mirror Systems	OptiPro Systems, LLC
Low-Inertia STEM Arm (LISA) Manipulators for Assistive Free-Flyers	Completed	3	Contact Dynamics Modeling	Altius Space Machines, Inc.
Plasma-based Wind Speed Sensor	Completed	4	Environment Sensors	Innoveering LLC
Increasing the Performance of Autonomous Planetary Robots Through Environmental Manipulations	Completed	3	Grappling Technologies	Protoinnovations, LLC
Webbed Solar Array	Completed	3	Manufacturing Processes	TentGuild Engineering Company
Venus Imaging Camera	Completed	5	Optical Components	InnoSys, Inc.
Design Tools for Tailorable and Ultra-Thin TuFF Composites	Completed	3	Reliability and Sustainment	Composites Automation, LLC
Photonics Integrated Circuit Enabled Miniature On-Chip Urine Test system with High Sensitivity and Reliability	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Applied NanoFemto Technologies, LLC
Building a Rice Decision Support System to Support Global Food Security and Commodity Markets	Completed	5	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Applied Geosolutions, LLC
Autonomous Power Controller for Mission Critical Microgrids	Completed	4	Management and Control	PC Krause and Associates, Inc.
Persistently Antimicrobial Polyurethanes for Improved Pressure Garment Bladders	Completed	4	Pressure Garment	Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc.
Development of a Single-Frequency Narrow Linewidth 1.5mm Semiconductor Laser Suitable for Spaceflight Operation	Completed	6	Lasers	Redfern Integrated Optics, Inc.
Novel Technologies for Efficient NTP Reactor Decay Heat Removal and Utilization	Completed	4	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation-Technologies
Graded Temperature Fecal Dryer-Densifier	Completed	4	Waste Management	UMPQUA Research Company
Optimal Radiation Tolerant High Intensity High Temperature Photovoltaics	Completed	5	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Structured Materials Industries, Inc.
Automated High-Volume Manufacturing of Modular Photovoltaic Panel Assemblies for Space Solar Arrays	Completed	4	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Deployable Space Systems, Inc
Coupled Resonator Power Combiner (COREPOWER)	Completed	3	Power Efficiency	Nu Waves, Ltd.
Microfabricated Low-Loss Microwave Switch Integration Technology	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Nuvotronics, Inc
Design and Process Development of Thin-Ply Composites	Completed	6	Lightweight Structural Materials	Composites Automation, LLC
Boost Compressor for xPLSS CO2/H20 Control on Mars	Completed	4	Pressure Garment	Creare, LLC
Advanced Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Tools for Simulation of Electrodynamic Tether Plasma Interactions	Completed	5	Electromagnetic Tethers	Tech-X Corporation
MarsOasis - An Efficient Autonomously Controlled Martian Crop Production System	Completed	3	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Space Lab Technologies, LLC
High Fidelity Simulation of Jet Noise Emissions from Rectangular Nozzles	Completed	—	Aeroacoustics	Combustion Research and Flow Technology
Automated Radiation Measurements for Aviation Safety (ARMAS)	Completed	8	Field and Particle Detectors	Space Environment Technologies, LLC
Cryocooler With Cold Compressor for Deep Space Applications	Completed	5	Cryogenic/Thermal Systems	Madison CryoGroup, LLC
Fan Noise Screening Rig for New Open Rotor and Propeller Concepts	Completed	3	Aeroacoustics	Aero Systems Engineering, Inc.
High-Fidelity Prediction of Launch Vehicle Lift-off Acoustic Environment	Completed	—	Environment Testing	CFD Research Corporation
F-band, High-Efficiency GaN Power Amplifier for the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder and SOFIA	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Quinstar Technology, Inc.
Radiation Tolerant Temperature-Invariant Scintillation Modules	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
Design Concepts for Low Aspect Ratio High Pressure Turbines for High Bypass Ratio Turbofans	Completed	5	—	N&R Engineering
Low-Cost, Manufacturable, 6-Inch Wafer Bonding Process for Next-Generation 5-Junction IMM+Ge Photovoltaic Devices	Completed	—	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Emile: The EventML Explorer	Completed	6	Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling	ATC-NY, Inc.
Development of Hermetic Sealing Glasses for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells	Completed	5	Dynamic Energy Conversion	Mo-Sci Corp
Passive Variable Heat Rejection Freeze-Tolerant Direct Condensation Heat Exchanger/Radiator	Completed	4	Heat Rejection and Storage	TTH Research, Inc.
Low Size, Weight, and Power, High Gain 2D Material-Based Detectors for Mass Spectrometers	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Guardion, Inc.
Mesh Generation and Adaption for High Reynolds Number RANS Computations	Completed	8	Uncertainty Quantification and Nondeterministic Simulation Methods	Research South, Inc.
High-Capacity, High-Speed, Solid-State Hydrogen Gas Generator	Completed	6	Hypersonic Decelerators	Anasphere, Inc.
Multipurpose Cooling Garment for Improved Space Suit Environmental Control	Completed	4	Portable Life Support System	Creare, LLC
Calibration/Validation Technology for the CO2 Satellite	Completed	9	Environment Sensors	Atmospheric Observing Systems, Inc.
Lightweight and Low Stow Volume Solar Concentrator for Lunar Based In-Situ Resource Utilization	Completed	6	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	L'Garde, Inc.
ISRU Collector of Ice in a Cold Lunar Environment (ICICLE)	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Paragon Space Development Corporation
Development of an Optic Fiber Based Hybrid Spectroscope	Completed	6	—	Laser & Plasma Technologies, LLC
Large-Scale Manufacturing of Bulk Metallic Glass Sheets and Fiber Metal Laminates	Completed	3	Manufacturing Processes	Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc.
Ultra-Efficient Integrated Photonic Quantum Transceiver for High-Speed Quantum Communications	Completed	6	Quantum Communications	Amethyst Research, Inc.
Fluidic Solutions for In Situ Sample Preparation in Microgravity	Completed	5	Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors	IRPI, LLC
Additive-Manufactured Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	Completed	3	Manufacturing Processes	Nanovox, LLC
Model-based Enterprise Architecture for Institutional Management Digital Twins	Completed	7	Ground, Test, and Surface Systems	Global Technology Connection, Inc.
Real-Time Flight and Airspace Risk Monitoring for Airline Operations	Completed	5	Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles	Robust Analytics
Light Weight Insulated Spherical Cryotank	Completed	4	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC
Shape Memory Actuated Retraction and Deployment (SMARD)	Completed	4	Lightweight Concepts	Dynovas, Inc.

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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.

💻 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.