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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 246 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Rad-Hard, Wide Bandgap, Single Inductor Multiple Output (SIMO) Converters Completed 4 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-power 28GHz Selective Spectrometer Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis in Complex Structures Completed 3 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Antech Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Stakeholder Access to Embedded System Models (SAESM) Completed 6 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling Galois, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dual-channel Multi-Nyquist Zone DAC with Digital Up-conversion Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Coupled Viscous/Inviscid Analysis of Powered-Lift Airfoils and Wings Completed 6 Aeroelasticity Avid LLC 2026-01-22 —
Pushing the State of the Art: A Web-enabled MBSE Analysis Integration Framework Completed 4 Model-Based Systems Engineering Phoenix Integration 2026-01-22 —
Electrospray Propulsion Engineering Toolkit (ESPET) Completed 3 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling Spectral Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fail-safe Cold Cathode Ionizer Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Properties Investigation of High-MON Oxidizers for Use in Deep Space Exploration Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Frontier Aerospace Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Time Inter-Comparison Using Transportable Optical Combs Completed 5 Timekeeping and Time Distribution AOSense, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Uncertainty Management Framework for Space-based Autonomy Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Design Tools for Advanced Tailorable Composites Completed 5 Lightweight Concepts M4 Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Commercial-Scale Arrays for Lunar Exploration: Communications and Sensing System Completed 6 Innovative Antennas CesiumAstro, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Project Patchwork - Wirelessly Networked Structural Analysis Devices for Aircraft Completed 6 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Mide Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Improving Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency with LUVCON coating Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Regher Solar, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Techniques to Support the Aerial Deployment and Inflation of Venus Aerobots Completed 5 Surface Mobility Near Space Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Gas Sensing Technology for Space Suits Completed 4 Portable Life Support System Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
3-color DPAS Aerosol Absorption Monitor Completed 4 Lasers Aerodyne Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Programmable Phase Nulling Interferometer for Giant Mirrors Completed 4 Optical Components Meadowlark Optics Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Freeform Optics: A Non-Contact "Test Plate" for Manufacturing Completed 3 Optical Components Optimax Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
System Wide Analysis Network for In-Time Safety Monitoring Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Robust Analytics 2026-01-22 —
Transition Airspace Resource Management Completed 2 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact Imaging Spectropolarimeter Based on Multifunction Meta-optic Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Nanohmics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Atmospheric Lidar with Cross-Track Scanning Completed 5 Lasers Litespar, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Thrust Efficiency MPD Thruster Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Tethers Unlimited Inc 2026-01-22 —
A Robust Biofilm-Biomat Reactor for Conversion of Mission-Relevant Feedstocks to Products Completed 4 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Sustainable Bioproducts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Nephelometric Dropsonde for Volcanic Ash Completed 6 Environment Sensors Innovative Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Surface Mount On-blade Optical Telemetry System (SMOOTS) Completed 4 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Magnetic Bearings for Small Satellite CMG's and Other Miniature Spacecraft Mechanisms Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Scalable Data Acquisition System for MKID Detectors Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An ElectroAdhesive "Stick Boom" for Mars Sample Return Orbiting Sample Capture Completed 3 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Altius Space Machines, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Deep Space Navigation of Distributed Small Spacecraft using Variable Celestial Sources Completed 3 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Aster Labs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Emissivity Surface Micro-Structuring Completed 7 Electrostatic Propulsion Polaronyx, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Distributed Master-less DC/DC Converter System for the Optimum Utilization of Interconnected Lithium-Based Battery Modules Completed 8 All-Electric Propulsion X-wave Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Beamforming Antenna System for High Data Rate Small Spacecraft Communications Completed 3 Innovative Antennas SKYGIG LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Aeroservoelstic Control for a Zero Emission Blended Wing Body Transport Completed 3 Aeroelasticity Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Quantum Cascade Laser based sensors for high-speed characterization of flow parameters in hypersonic tunnels Completed 4 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation University of California-Berkeley 2026-01-22 —
F-band Solid-State Power Amplifier (106-114 GHz) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Quinstar Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Density, Non-Toxic, Low-Cost, Hybrid Stage for Lunar Injection Completed 4 Hybrids Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Continuous Correlations for Complete Boiling Curves of Cryogenic Fluids Completed 3 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Sunflake Solar Array and Ultra Compact Tripod Tower (UCTT) Completed 4 Lightweight Concepts Gendell Associates DBA Folditure 2026-01-22 —
Trap-Door-Buffer Enhanced Fourier Spectrum Interferometer Completed 4 Navigation Sensors X-wave Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Blueshift, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Structural Printing of Solar Melted Regolith Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Probabilistic Formulation of Multi-fidelity Aerodynamic Databases (ProForMA) Completed 5 Aeroelasticity Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Observation Planning in Spaceline Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Ascending Node Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Wastewater Photo-oxidation System Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Pioneer Astronautics 2026-01-22 —
CMOS Photon-Counting Image Sensor with High Spatial Resolution and Room Temperature Operation for High-Performance Visible-Blind UV/EUV Photon Number Resolving Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Gigajot Technology, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety - Dual Monitor (ARMAS-DM) Completed 7 Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling Space Environment Technologies, 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.