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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 255 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Reversible Fuel Cell Energy Storage System Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells PH Matter, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Toward Autonomous Stable Energy Management of Hybrid Electric Aircraft Propulsion Systems Completed 4 Fault Response New Electricity Transmission Software Solutions (NETSS) 2026-01-22 —
Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG) Completed 3 Heat Sources Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Combining InP and SiGe Technologies for Low Noise, Low Power Cryogenic Amplifiers suitable for Radio Astronomy Arrays and Quantum Applcations. Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Cosmic Microwave Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Carbon-Carbon Composites for Hot Structures Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials M4 Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Phenolic Impregnated Felt Completed 5 Thermal Protection Systems Fiber Materials, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multi Domain Modeling for Space Systems Completed 6 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling MetaMorph, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-Altitude Wind Hazard Alerting and Rerouting Service Completed 6 Ground and Flight Test Technologies ATAC 2026-01-22 —
Hyperspectral Image Projector with Polarization Capability Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Meadowlark Optics Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Temperature Multimode Harvester for Wireless Strain Applications Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Prime Photonics, LC 2026-01-22 —
A Compact Self-Switching/Modulation 2 micron Ceramic Laser Completed 4 Lasers Boston Applied Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Solid State Transmitters for Water Vapor and Ozone DIAL Systems Completed 5 Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Sunflake Solar Array and Ultra Compact Tripod Tower (UCTT) Completed 5 Lightweight Concepts Gendell Associates DBA Folditure 2026-01-22 —
A Scalable Gas-Particle Flow Simulation Tool for Lander Plume-Surface Interaction and Debris Prediction Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
LEO Manufacturing of 3D Printed Covetic Nanomaterials for Advanced Electronics Completed 5 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Simultaneous H2 Generation and Compression with Intermediate-Temperature Solid-Oxide Membranes Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Precision Combustion, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Low-Cost, High-Precision Navigator Completed 7 Attitude Estimation Sensors Toyon Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction Control Using Pulsed DBD Plasma Actuators Completed 4 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Tech-X Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Laser Absorption Imaging diagnostic system for arc jet facilities Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) 2026-01-22 —
Continuation Methods and Non-Linear/Non-Gaussian Estimation for Flight Dynamics Completed 5 Navigation Sensors Numerica Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Global Skin Friction Sensor for Cryogenic Wind Tunnels Completed 8 Aerodynamics Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Large structure repair via UAM Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes TGV Rockets, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Downlink Fiber Laser Transmitter for Deep Space Communication Completed 6 Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cognitive Engine enabled Mission-aware Intelligent Communication System for Space Networking Completed 3 Cognitive Networking Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Data Mining for Aircraft Health Management Completed 5 Cyber Infrastructure Mitek Analytics LLC 2026-01-22 —
Safety Enhancement Technologies for Airport Ramp Area Operations Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Optimal Synthesis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hall Effect Thruster for High Power Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Completed — Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A 16384-channel 8GHz Bandwidth Polyphase Spectrometer Completed 6 Optical Components Mosaix Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Photonic Spectrograph Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Damage-Tolerant Integration of Dissimilar Materials Using Microcrack-Resistant Isolating Adhesive Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Applied Analytic Research 2026-01-22 —
An Interactive Visual Analytics Tool for NASA's General Mission Analysis Tool Completed 3 Software Analysis and Design Tools Decisive Analytics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Modular Xenon Micro Electric Propulsion System Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion ExoTerra Resource, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Scalable, Variable-speed Time-Sensitive Ethernet Completed 5 High-Performance Processors Lewiz Communications, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thermally Insulative Structural Connection for Cryogenic Propellant Tanks Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Paragon Space Development Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Fabrication and Testing of Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion Ground Test Hardware Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
Mesh Adaptation and Shape Optimization on Unstructured Meshes Completed 4 Aeroelasticity CRM Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Green Monopropellant Secondary Payload Propulsion System Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight Small-Scale Turbine Generator Completed 6 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices Metis Design Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Wireless Hybrid Identification and Sensing Platform for Equipment Recovery (WHISPER) Completed 7 Logistics Management Advanced Systems & Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An Outrigger Component for a Deployable Occulter System Completed 6 Structures and Antennas Roccor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Cloud-Based Analytics, Store and Query System (CASQUE) for Data-Intensive Scientific Processing Completed 3 Cloud Computing Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Innovation in the Sky Completed 3 Aeroacoustics Higher Ground 2026-01-22 —
Real-Time, Maneuvering Flight Noise Prediction for Rotorcraft Flight Simulations Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fault Tolerant RISC-V Flight Computer with Coprocessor Support Completed 4 High-Performance Processors Resilient Computing 2026-01-22 —
Robust, Low Loss Approach for Fiber to Waveguide Coupling Completed 3 Lasers ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
TORC-SP: High Torque, Low Jitter Scissored-Pair CMG Technology Completed — Fault Response Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Flight Director In A Box: Using Learning to Develop Planning Agents For Exploration Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-Temperature Joining of SiC-Matrix Composites Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) Completed 9 — Advanced Space, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Design Tools for Electrosail Propulsion Systems Completed 3 Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation Particle Matters, 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.