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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 259 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
High-Efficiency, Radiation-Hard, Lightweight IMM Solar Cells Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Local Oscillator Technologies for THz Instruments Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Toyon Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Post-Process Optimizing of Additive-Manufactured Nickel-Based Superalloys Completed 8 Manufacturing Processes REM Surface Engineering 2026-01-22 —
Refuse-to-get-stuck Rovers Completed 4 Surface Mobility Cislune Company 2026-01-22 —
Sensor integritY Management and Prognostics Technology with On-Line Fault Mitigation (SYMPTOM) for Improved Flight Safety of Commercial Aircraft Completed 3 Operational Assurance Scientific Systems Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Self-Calibrating, Lightweight Radiation Hardened Isolated DC-DC Converter Completed 5 Portable Life Support System Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Liquid Sorption Pump Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Pioneer Astronautics 2026-01-22 —
Miniature Laser System for Yb Ion Clock Completed 4 Timekeeping and Time Distribution OEwaves, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Swift Ultra Long Endurance (SULE) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Completed 5 — Swift Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Board Level Solution for Correlation Radiometers Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Dynamic Airspace Concepts for Integration of UAS into the NAS Completed 3 Distributed Simulation Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cold Weather Technology Development for Low Altitude Ultra-Long Endurance Applications Completed — Mission Planning Vanilla Aircraft, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Security-Enhanced Autonomous Network Management for Space Networking Completed — Information Assurance Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Structural Nervous System Completed 5 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Reliable Autonomous Surface Mobility (RASM) in Support of Human Exploration Completed 6 Robot Navigation and Path Planning Protoinnovations, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Microfabrication of Stirling Heat Engine Regenerators Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Polaronyx, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Task Analysis Data Processing and Enhanced Representations (TAPER) Completed 3 Human Factors Engineering Charles River Analytics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Microwave Extraction of Water from Boreholes in Regolith Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Space Resources Extraction Technology 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Ka Band Power Amplifiers for Future EVA Radio Applications Completed 4 Power Efficiency AlphaSense, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Power THz Quantum-Cascade VECSEL based Local Oscillator Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems LongWave Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Ignition Systems for Long-Term Storage and Multi-Start Capability Completed 4 Hybrids Space Propulsion Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Miniature Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer for In-Situ Resource Utilization Completed 4 Destination Resource Exploration Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
FARADAYIC(R) Electrochemical Peroxide Generation for In-Situ Disinfection Completed 6 — Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reservoir Scandate Cathode for Electric Propulsion Completed 7 Electrostatic Propulsion E-beam, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight, Reliable Cryogenic Screen Channel Acquisition Devices with High Expulsion Efficiency Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robust Sensor for In-Flight Flow Characterization Completed 4 Environment Sensors Tao of Systems Integration, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Monofilament Vaporization Propulsion (MVP) System Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion CU Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Portable Cathode-Air-Vapor-Feed Electrochemical Medical Oxygen Concentrator Completed — Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Microgravity Compatible, Integrated Laundry System Completed 3 Habitation Systems UMPQUA Research Company 2026-01-22 —
Strategic Cybersecurity Framework for UTM-ISSA Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Vcrsoft, LLC 2026-01-22 —
NOFB-Aerospike Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Firestar Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Cloud-Based Open Data Environment and Flow-based Aggregation Science Tool (CODEFAST) Completed 4 Cloud Computing Geocent, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Hall Effect Thruster for High Power Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight and Affordable Solar Array System for NASA Solar Electric Propulsion Science Missions Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Deployable Space Systems, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Power Controller for Mission Critical Microgrids Completed 4 Management and Control PC Krause and Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Two-Phase Pumped Loop Evaporator with Adaptive Flow Distribution for Large Area Cooling Completed 3 Heat Transport Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
SBIR NASA CUBESAT Phase 2 Technical Proposal Completed 6 Lasers Quartus Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multi-A.U. SOLAROSA Concentrator Solar Array for Space Science Missions Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Deployable Space Systems, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Less Iron and More Switches Increase Range Completed 6 All-Electric Propulsion Continental Controls and Design 2026-01-22 —
Further development and demonstration of S-band Venus Capable Radio Transmitter Completed 5 Quantum Communications InnoSys, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
LaB6 and Iodine Resistant Miniature Cathodes for Small Thrusters Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies E-beam, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robust High Temperature Environmental Barrier Coating System for Ceramic Matrix Composite Gas Turbine Components using Affordable Processing Approach Completed — Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Miniature passive thermal control valve for mixing or splitting single-phase fluid Completed 4 Thermal Management Systems Kalsi Engineering Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Stereo Vision for SPHERES-based Navigation and Monitoring Completed 4 Sensing for Robotic Systems TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Internal/External Surface Finishing of Additively Manufactured IN-625 Components Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes REM Surface Engineering 2026-01-22 —
Spiking Neuromorphic Software Defined Networking Completed 4 Cognitive Networking Applied Sciences Inc 2026-01-22 —
Specular Black Coating for Flexible Starshade Optical Sheild Completed 3 Mirror Systems ZeCoat Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Decluttering Earth Orbit to Repurpose for Bespoke Innovative Technologies (DEORBIT) System for Low-Earth Orbit Completed 3 Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats Martian Sky Industries, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Avionic for Low Altitude High Density SUAS - Dynamic Configurable Dual ADS-B with Interrogation Completed 6 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle R Cubed Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robot Simulation Platform for Source Search and Mapping Completed 3 Collaborative Mobility Geisel Software, 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.