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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 254 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Optical System for Monitoring Net Occular Blood Flow Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Long Life Bearings for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Nano Enhanced 4000 °F CMC for Multiple Use Applications Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Allcomp Inc. 2026-01-22 —
All Fiber Gas Reference Cell Completed 4 Lasers TIPD, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Crew Worn Acceleration Recorder for Spaceflight Completed 6 Environment Sensors Diversified Technical Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Environment MLI: Novel Multi-Functional Insulation for Mars Missions Completed 4 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Quest Thermal Group 2026-01-22 —
Towards a Turn-Key Graphical Programming Suite for Autonomous Robotic Manufacturing and Teleoperation of Remote Robotic Assets Completed 7 Surface Construction and Assembly TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Benefit Analysis of Hybrid CNT/CFRP Composites in Future Aircraft Structures Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Inorganic Nanostructured High-Temperature Magnet Wires Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Eltron Research & Development, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Rotating Detonation X-Combustor (RDXC) Turbine Integration Program Completed 5 Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion CPEC Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Thermopile Detector Radiation Hardened Readout Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Black Forest Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robonaut 2 Tool Localization Completed — Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
The StratoCruiser Propulsive Long Endurance Balloon Gondola Completed 4 Environment Sensors Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Development of a Hermetically Sealed Canister for Sample Return Missions Completed 6 Modeling and Simulation for Robots Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Reduced-Order Acoustic Prediction Tool for Ducted Fan Noise Sources Including Inflow Distortion and Turbulence Ingestion Completed 6 Aeroacoustics Technology In Blacksburg, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Aerodynamically Stable DragSails for Spacecraft Deorbit Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Vestigo Aerospace Inc 2026-01-22 —
Variable Fidelity AeroPropulsoServoElasticity Analysis Tool Completed 3 Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency V-Band Power Amplifier for Small Satellite Applications Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Microfabricated, 94 GHz, 25 W, Helical Traveling Wave Tube Completed 3 High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Teraphysics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Multi-Spectral Infrared Focal Plane Array For Wildfire And Burning-Biomass Analysis Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes QmagiQ, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Mobile Water Quality Information Tool Completed 7 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Applied Geosolutions, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Non-Catalytic Ignition System for High Performance Advanced Monopropellant Thrusters Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Systima Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multiscale Design Tool and Process Development of Thin-Ply Composites Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Technical Data Analysis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low SWaP Flash LiDAR for Fast Traversing Rovers Completed 6 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Coating to Mitigate Hydrogen Embrittlement in High Temperature Environments Completed 3 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation Summit Information Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Efficiency Power Amplifier for Over-the-Horizon Communications (HYPERION) Completed 4 Power Efficiency Nu Waves, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Predicting Operational Disruption Probabilities for Arrival Planning and Flow Management Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Robust Analytics 2026-01-22 —
A New Architecture for FUN3D on Modern HPC Systems Completed 2 Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset EM Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Machine Learning Explainability and Uncertainty Quantification to Support Calibration of Trust in Automated Systems Completed 3 Behavioral Health and Performance Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
NAS Element Closure Planner Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies ATAC 2026-01-22 —
An Open-Source Simulation Environment for Model-Based Engineering Completed 5 Model-Based Systems Engineering An Uncommon Lab 2026-01-22 —
Wide Temperature Cycling Tolerant Electronic Packaging Substrates Completed 5 Hazard Assessment ReMetAl LLC 2026-01-22 —
Perfectly Impedance-Matched Negative Index High Temperature Selective Emission Films for Thermophotovoltaics Completed 5 Static Energy Conversion Nanohmics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Power and High Reliability Fiber Optical Routing Switch Completed 5 Quantum Communications Photonwares Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Hedera Hashgraph based Distributed Ledger for Aerospace Applications Completed 5 Cyber Infrastructure CTEN Global Strategies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Momentum Device Actuated Canfield (MoDAC) Manipulator Completed 4 Contact Dynamics Modeling Millennium Engineering and Integration Company 2026-01-22 —
Passive Wireless Sensor System for Space and Structural Health Monitoring Completed 3 Reliability and Sustainment Aviana Molecular Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Innovative System Modeling Methods and Tools Completed 7 Model-Based Systems Engineering WarpIV Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
In-Space Inductive Foundry: Recycling, Sorting and Casting Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes BUILD BEYOND, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Nitrous Oxide Analyzer for Atmospheric Research Completed 4 Cold Gas Vista Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Electrical-Efficient Process to Perform Regolith Additive Manufacturing of Complex Structures Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Lunar Resources, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Pressure Oxygen Generation for Future Exploration Missions Completed 5 Atmosphere Revitalization Proton Energy Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Deep UV Raman Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Depth Resolved Core Analysis Completed 3 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
More Ductile Bulk Tungsten Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Transition45 Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thermionic energy conversion for hypersonics Completed 6 Dynamic Energy Conversion Spark Thermionics 2026-01-22 —
Passively Actuated Ultra-Low Mass Radiator for Lunar Surface Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Novus Energy Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
The Common-Path Interferometric Particle Sizer (CPIPS): A new open-path airborne instrument for characterizing small ice and aerosol Completed 4 Lasers Handix Scientific, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Space/Flight Operable Miniature Six Axis Transducer Completed 6 Contact Dynamics Modeling Futek Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Spectrally Matched Wideband Metamaterial Emitters for High Power and Efficient Thermophotovoltaic Converters Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power SensorMetrix 2026-01-22 —
A Reaction Sphere for High Performance Attitude Control Completed 4 Control Force and Torque Actuators NOQSI Aerospace, ltd 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.