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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 237 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Reliable Actuator for Cryo Propellant Fluid Control Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Dynamic Structures and Materials, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low SWAP-C Imaging Radar for Small Air Vehicle Sense and Avoid Completed 7 Cryogenic Propulsion KMB Telematics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Nanometer Coordinate Measuring Machine Completed 3 Mirror Systems OptiPro Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Parallelization Toolkit for NASA CCMC Completed 4 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low power 7.2 Terabit Transmitter for Exascale Computing Completed 5 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices Photon Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robust Cryogenic Cavitation Modeling for Propulsion Systems Ground Test Facilities Completed 6 Science Modeling Tetra Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Polarization Maintaining Coherent Fiber Bundle Array Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robust, Low SWAP Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing System Completed 5 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact UV Laser Completed 6 Lasers Q-Peak, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Nanomaterials Based In-Line Sensor for Ionic Silver in Spacecraft Potable Water Systems Completed 6 Water Recovery and Management Innosense Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Hyper-XACT, A Long-Life, High-Performance Attitude Determination & Control System Completed 8 GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Film-Evaporation MEMS Tunable Array (FEMTA) for Propulsion and Thermal Control Completed 5 Other Propulsion Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Smart Fault Management (SFM) Completed 5 Quantum Computer TMC Technologies of WV Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Omnidirectional Inter-satellite Optical Communicator Completed 3 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies University of California-Irvine 2026-01-22 —
Non-Mechanical Dual-Mode Beam Control System for LIDARs Completed 6 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements 2026-01-22 —
High Radiation Resistance Inverted Metamorphic Solar Cell Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SMP Bladder Tooling for Manufacturing Composites Completed 3 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Deep Learning Processing Subsystem (DLPS): A HPSC-Compatible Deep Learning Coprocessor Completed 6 Intelligent Data Understanding Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Spacesuit Multigas Monitor Completed 3 Portable Life Support System Southwest Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Novel 3D C-SiC Composites for Hot Structures Completed 5 Lightweight Structural Materials Allcomp Inc. 2026-01-22 —
MEMS Sensor Arrays for Cryogenic Propellant Applications Completed 5 Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management KWJ Engineering, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Climate Enhancing Resource Utilization Through Ultra-low-temperature, Electrolytic Carbon Dioxide Valorization on Mars Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
5G-MOSAIC: 5G Mission-Critical Sidelink for Autonomous and Interoperable Communications in Lunar Networks Completed 6 Destination Resource Exploration EpiSys Science, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Agent Cognitive Architecture for Spacecraft Operations Completed 5 Computational Materials VISIMO, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robust Optical Edge for a Starshade Petal Completed 5 Optical Components Tendeg, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Sensor Systems - 2020 Completed 5 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies Geocent, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Rodent Centrifuge Completed 5 Long-Duration Health Redwire Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Power Tunable 852nm Laser Source and PICs for Atom Interferometry Based Gravimetry Completed 5 Lasers Freedom Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Development of New Low-Resource Magnetometers Completed 6 Field and Particle Detectors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2026-01-22 —
Nondestructive Instrumentation for Real-Time On-Demand Battery State Monitoring Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Storagenergy Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Single-photon Lasercom Readout Integrated Circuit (ROIC) Completed 4 Detector Development Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Real-Time Panoramic Sensing for Enhanced Air Vehicles Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Circle Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Rate CubeSat X-band/S-band Communication System Completed 5 Radio Frequency Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
RCS Tank Operations Using Cryocoolers Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Sierra Lobo, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hiawatha Spacecraft Autonomous System Health (SASH) Management System Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding Nokomis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
The Station Manipulator Arm Augmented Reality Trainer Completed 3 Training Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Improved Rock Core Sample Break-off, Retention and Ejection System Completed — Grappling Technologies Bear Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight Ultra-Strong Flexible Conductors from Metallic Nanoparticles and Aramid Nanofibers Completed 4 Special Materials Amphionic, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robust Optical Edge for a Starshade Petal Completed 4 Optical Components Tendeg, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Multimodal Agile Ranging and Velocimetry INstrument Completed 3 Surface Mobility LambdaMetrics 2026-01-22 —
Improved Microwave Photonic Links via Receive-Side Nonlinear Signal Processing Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NuCrypt, LLC 2026-01-22 —
RSim: A Simulation Tool Integrating Radiation Codes and CAD. Completed 3 Space Weather Prediction Tech-X Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Multipurpose Doppler Lidar Measurements Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies TruWeather Solutions 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Objective Risk Prediction and Hazard Evaluation/optimization for Urban air Services (MORPHEUS) Completed 3 Collaborative Science and Engineering The Longbow Group, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Damage Adaptive Guidance for Piloted Upset Recovery Completed 4 Fault Response Barron Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
O2/CO Ignition System for Mars Sample Return Missions Completed 4 Cold Gas Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Lift-Temperature Stirling Cryocooler and Controller for CubeSat Platform Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Converter Source, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Hydrogenous Polymer-Regolith Composites for Radiation-Shielding Materials Completed 5 Protection Systems International Scientific Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Miniaturized, Multi-Analyte Sensor Array for the Automated Monitoring of Major Atmospheric Constituents in Spacecraft Environment Completed 7 Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses Innosense Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Highly Capable Micropump-Fed Propulsion System for Proximity Operations, Landing and Ascent Completed 4 Propulsion Systems for Landing Flight Works, 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.