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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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 266 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
A Counter for Ice Nucleated in Contrails Homogeneously and Heterogeneously (CINCHH) Completed 4 All-Electric Propulsion Handix Scientific, LLC
Compact High Performance Plasma Propulsion System Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc.
Ultra High Speed Digitizer with Integrated Synchronized Clock Source and Rad Hard SPI Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Advanced Science and Novel Technology
UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Concept Demonstration for 24 Hour Aerial Firefighting Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Trident Sensing LLC
Two-Dimensional Cryogenic Readout for Far IR Bolometers Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes SeeQC, Inc.
Under-Rover Ultra-Wide Band Non-Contact Ground Penetrating Radar Antenna Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Astrobotic Technology, Inc.
Communication and Ranging Subsystem for a Distributed Spacecraft Configuration Completed 4 Optimetrics Aeronix, Inc.
Free-Flying Unmanned Robotic Spacecraft for Asteroid Resource Prospecting and Characterization Completed 5 Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
Fast Pressure-Sensitive Paint System for Production Wind Tunnel Testing Completed 8 Environment Sensors Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Miniaturized Air Dropped Sensors for Environmental Monitoring of Heavy Metals in Water Completed 4 Environment Sensors Nanosonic, Inc.
Space Vehicle Inspection High Range Resolution & Raman Spectral LIDAR Completed 6 Lasers Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation
Solid State Transmitters for Water Vapor and Ozone DIAL Systems Completed 5 Lasers Fibertek, Inc.
Self-Sustaining Crop Production Unit Completed 3 Habitation Systems Freight Farms, Inc.
High Performance Image Processing Algorithms for Current and Future Mastcam Imagers Completed 4 Data Reduction Hardware Systems Applied Research, LLC
Common and Configurable Flash LIDAR Sensor for Space-Based Autonomous Landing, Rendezvous, and Docking Missions Completed 3 Atmosphere Characterization Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC
CMOS Photon-Counting Image Sensor with High Spatial Resolution and Room Temperature Operation for High-Performance Visible-Blind UV/EUV Photon Number Resolving Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Gigajot Technology, LLC
C/C Manufacturing with MG Resin and 3D Preforms Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Cornerstone Research Group, Inc.
Castable Inorganic Composite Potting Material for High-Temperature Electromagnets Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion HiFunda, LLC
Shape Memory Effect Actuators from Chlorides Completed 3 Flexible Material Systems Shape Change Technologies
Packaging and Manufacturing Processes to Enable Production of Very Large Solar Sails for Next Generation Missions Completed 7 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Nexolve Holding Company, LLC
Autonomous Melting Probe for Icy Planets Exploration Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
Novel, Functionally Graded Coating System for Reusable, Very High Temperature Applications Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Allcomp Inc.
Wall Shear Measurement Technology for Plume Surface Interactions Completed 6 Aerodynamics Ahmic Aerospace
High Capacity, High Efficiency 10 to 20 K Pulse Tube Cryocooler Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Madison CryoGroup, LLC
Compact Multi-Watt 2 to 2.13um Holmium Doped Fiber Laser Transmitter for Space Completed 6 Lasers Cybel, LLC
Advanced Multi-Pass Cell Technology Completed 6 Lasers Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Simple Reliable Retractable Lunar Lander Solar Array Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Nexolve Holding Company, LLC
Novel Multilayered Metal Insulation Using Custom Standoffs Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Giner, Inc.
Autonomous Space Traffic Management Technologies for Small Spacecraft Swarms and Constellations Completed 5 Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats Syrnatec, Inc.
Sunflower Array Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.
Regenerable Sorbent for Combined CO2, Water, and Trace-Contaminant Capture in the Primary Life Support System (PLSS) Completed 4 Below-Surface Mobility Advanced Fuel Research, Inc.
Autonomous Nanosatellite Swarming using Radio Frequency and Optical Navigation Completed 5 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Stanford University
An Efficient Parallel SAT Solver Exploiting Multi-Core Environments Completed — Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Aries Design Automation, LLC
An Early and In-Situ Cell Failure Detection and Reconditioning System for Lithium-Ion Batteries Completed 4 All-Electric Propulsion X-wave Innovations, Inc.
Capillary Membrane Distillation and Photocatalysis for Water Reclamation During Space Travel Completed 4 Water Recovery and Management Materials Modification, Inc.
Additive Insulative Layer for Thermal Protection System Completed 4 Thermal Protection Systems Bally Ribbon Mills
Cost Reduction of IMM Solar Cells by Recycling Substrates Using Wet Chemical Etching Completed — Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Self-Organizing Maps for Fast LES Combustion Modeling Completed 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Reaction Systems, LLC
Computer-Controlled Force Generator Completed — Prevention and Countermeasures TDA Research, Inc.
Capacitive Vector Skin Friction Measurement Systems for Complex Flow Fields Completed 4 Aerodynamics Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation
Integrated High Frequency Electric Propulsor for Turbo-Electric Aircraft Completed 4 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Hinetics, LLC
Broadband Vector Vortices for High Contrast Coronagraphy Completed 5 Optical Components BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements
DAAS: Data Analytics for Assurance of Safety Completed 3 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Active Battery Management System with Physics Based Life Modeling Topology Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Electric Power Systems, Inc.
Bio-inspired Cellular Material Optimization for the Design of Additively Manufactured Multi-Functional Lightweight Structures Completed 3 Computational Materials Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies
UAS Flight Planning Tool for Atmospheric Energy Extraction Completed 5 Environment Sensors Swift Engineering, Inc.
Demonstration of "Optical Mining" For Excavation of Asteroids and Production of Mission Consumables Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Integrated Concurrent System Associates, Inc.
Sustained Low Altitude Lunar Orbital Missions (SLALOM) Completed 3 Optimetrics Advanced Space, LLC
Low-Power Radiation Tolerant 4GHz Bandwidth 16k Channel Spectrometer ASIC Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation
Switching Electronics for Space-Based Telescopes with Advanced AO Systems Completed 4 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies Sunlite Science & Technology, Inc.
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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.
💻 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.