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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 271 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Next generation vector vortex waveplates for astronomical coronagraphs Completed 5 Optical Components BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements 2026-01-22 —
Formable Preform for Complex Shaped Hot Structures Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Pepin Associates 2026-01-22 —
3D Print and Play Payload (P3) Systems Completed 4 Electronic Packaging and Implementations nScrypt, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Versatile Fiber Optic 6-Component Force Measurement System Completed — Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing Luna Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Airport Surface State Event Tracker (ASSET) Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Architecture Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Aeroservoelastic Multifidelity Design of Biomimetic Aircraft (AMuBA) Completed 4 Aeroelasticity Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Speed Emission Tomography for Ground Test Facilities Completed 7 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation En'Urga Inc 2026-01-22 —
High-Voltage Gallium Oxide Devices for Space Power Electronics Completed 3 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Condensate Separator for MIcrogravity Conditions (COSMIC) Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Paragon Space Development Corporation 2026-01-22 —
W-Band Solid State Power Amplifier for Remote Sensing Radars Completed 4 Power Efficiency Quinstar Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Scalable Neuromorphic Energy-Efficient Accelerator for Heterogeneous Processor Architectures Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Niobium Microsystems 2026-01-22 —
Incorporating control design for distributed electric propulsion in MDO Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dust Tolerant Electropermanent Magnetic Tool Interface Completed 5 — Altius Space Machines, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
UAM Disturbance Rejection in Conceptual Design Completed 4 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Phase change lubricant for superlubricity of sliding contacts in extreme space environment Completed 4 Coatings ATSP Innovations 2026-01-22 —
Compact Precision Space IMU Completed 7 Navigation Sensors Inertialwave, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robust FARADAYIC CNT Based Coating for Scattered Light Suppression Completed 5 Optical Components Faraday Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Fabrication of T-SOFC via Freeze Cast Methods for Space and Portable Applications Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Yanhai Power, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Novel, Vacuum-Regenerable Trace Contaminant Control System for Advanced Spacesuit Applications Completed 4 Portable Life Support System Precision Combustion, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Self-Biased Radiation Hardened Ka-Band Circulators for Size, Weight and Power Restricted Long Range Space Applications Completed — Flight and Ground Systems Metamagnetics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
CRISSP - Customizable Recyclable International Space Station Packaging Completed 6 Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Processes Tethers Unlimited Inc 2026-01-22 —
An Airborne Particulate Monitor for Spacecraft Completed — Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Computational System for Electrochemical Device Design and Simulation Completed 6 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling IllinoisRocstar, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Fault Management: Degradation Signature Detection, Modeling, and Processing Completed 5 Navigation Sensors Ridgetop Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Towards Exascale Computing of Compressible Flows using LBM Completed 5 Exascale Simulation Kord Technologies 2026-01-22 —
High-Temperature, Flat-Pack Optical Pressure Sensors for Combustion Noise Measurement Completed 5 Aeroacoustics Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Multi-Mode Automation for Trajectory Based Operations Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Architecture Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
ATOM - An AI Environment for New Microgravity Materials Development Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes G-Space, Inc 2026-01-22 —
A Software Tool for High-Order Element Mesh Generation Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Fast Acting Flow Control Valve Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion WASK Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Towards More Efficient Comprehensive Rotor Noise Simulation Completed 4 Aeroacoustics CASCADE Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Heat Switch for Space Applications Completed 3 Heat Transport Atlas Scientific 2026-01-22 —
Collision-Avoidance Radar for Small UAS Completed 7 Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems UAVradars, LLC 2026-01-22 —
An Additively Manufactured, Leak-Proof NTO Swivel Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Audio ADC Completed 3 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Silicon Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
CUA OpenMP Nonlinear Optimization Tool Completed 5 Revolutionary PNT Technologies CU Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Materials for Structural and Thermal Preservation of Sample Return Payload During Earth Entry and Landing Completed 3 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
SCRAMBL (Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering) Completed 4 Cyber Infrastructure Orbit Logic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thin and Automated Blanket Lamination and Encapsulation Systems (TABLES) Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment Completed 4 Portable Life Support System Mainstream Engineering Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Additive Manufacturing of Integrated Sensor System Completed 4 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies RC Integrated Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Additively Manufactured Liquid Injection Thrust Vector Control System Completed 4 Hybrids Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Infiltrated Hafnium Carbonitride Protective Layers for Carbon Composite Hot Structures Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Plasma Processes, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Reversible Copolymer Materials for FDM 3-D Printing of Non-Standard Plastics Completed 5 Sustainable Manufacturing Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Chromatid Painting for Chromosomal Inversion Detection Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis KromaTiD, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency Sintering via Beneficiation of the Building Material Completed 3 Surface Construction and Assembly Cislune Company 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Ignition System for Hybrid Rockets for Sample Return Missions Completed 4 Hybrids Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
Scalable, High Power Cryocooler Controller Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Iris Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Capacitive Deionization (CDI) for Efficient Desalination of Water in Space Completed 4 Water Recovery and Management Vuronyx Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer Completed 3 Optical Components Obsidian Sensors 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.