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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 273 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Thermochromics with Very Low Transition Temperature Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Triton Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Effect of Engine Installation on Jet Noise using a Hybrid LES/RANS Approach Completed 4 Aeroacoustics CASCADE Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Active Debris Removal (ADR) System Architecture Analysis Tool (SAAT) Prototype for Orbital Debris Stabilization and Removal Architecture Development Completed 3 Orbital Debris Mitigation Poulos Air & Space, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
1015 PTT Segment MEMS DM Development Completed 4 Optical Components Iris AO, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact High-Degrees-of-Freedom Freeform Beam-Expander Optics, Phase I Completed 4 Optical Components Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Anticipating the Geoeffectiveness of Coronal Mass Ejections Completed 5 Space Weather Prediction Predictive Science, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Phased Array Instrumentation and Processing for Engine Inlet Measurements Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Torrefaction Processing of Human Fecal Waste Completed 4 Waste Management Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Innovative Non-Contact Metrology Solutions for Large Optical Telescopes Completed 3 Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes SURVICE Engineering Company, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Wide Temperature DC Link Capacitors for Aerospace Power Electronics Completed 4 Management and Control PolyK Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
COxSwAIN COmpressive Sensing for Advanced Imaging and Navigation Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Extreme Environment Ceramic Energy Harvesting/Sensors Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Solid State Ceramics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Infrared Microspectrometer based on MEOMS Lamellar Grating Interferometer Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes EPIR Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Testing of COTS Systems in Space Completed 4 Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling Streamline Automation, LLC 2026-01-22 —
A High Efficiency Cryocooler for In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Toward Reducing Crew Time and Conserving Resources: Superhydrophillic Treatment of Hardware in Crew Hygiene Areas Completed 4 Habitation Systems Innosense Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Self-healing Nanocomposites for Reusable Composite Cryotanks Completed 4 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors NEI Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Propellant Storage and Distribution System Based on Textured Ceramic Valves for Xenon Electric Propulsion Systems Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Energy and Velocity Analyzer for Distributions of Electric Rockets Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Plasma Controls, LLC 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Cleaning Technology for Spacecraft Habitat Completed 5 Habitation Systems nGimat Co. 2026-01-22 —
Fast, Low Loss, Electro-Optic Switch for Quantum Information Processing Completed 3 Detector Development ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Self-Cleaning Dust Proof Fluid and Gas Connector Completed 4 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Off Planet Research, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High-Resolution Detector for At-Wavelength Metrology of X-Ray Optics Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Low-Power Medical Oxygen Generator Completed 3 Long-Duration Health TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Aviation Hazard Detection Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A high performance, electric pump-fed LOX / RP propulsion system Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Astra Space, Inc 2026-01-22 —
RSim: A Simulation Tool Integrating Radiation Codes and CAD. Completed 8 — Tech-X Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High-Repetition-Rate, Two-Line Kr Tagging Velocimetry for Full Boundary Layer Velocity Profile Measurement in a Single Tunnel Test Completed 6 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Hydrazine Monitoring Technology for Spacecraft Cabin Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Mesa Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Soft Robotic Manipulators with Enhanced Perception using Multimodal Sensory Skins Completed 5 — Otherlab, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Production of Electrolysis-Purity Water Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Makel Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Laser Ultrasound Visualization Tool for Non-destructive Evaluation of Composite Aircraft Structures Completed 4 Environment Sensors AlphaSense, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Robust Radiation Hard Low Power DAC Completed 8 Electronics Advanced Science and Novel Technology 2026-01-22 —
Materials and Structures Optimization / Process Development for the Mega-ROSA / ROSA Solar Array Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Deployable Space Systems, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Spectroscopy-grade lasers and PICs operating around 689 nm Completed 5 Lasers Nexus Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Ruggedized MEMS-VCSEL with high speed data acquisition for Fiber Optic Sensing System Completed 9 Lasers Praevium Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
LunarCube for Deep Space Missions Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Lightweight Bolt-on Deorbit Device for Spacecraft Completed 6 Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats L'Garde, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Solid State Large Area Pulsed Solar Simulator for 3-, 4- and 6-Junction Solar Cell Arrays Completed 7 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Angstrom Designs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hyperspectral VSF and Polarization Instrument Completed 4 Lasers Photonics Automation Specialties LLC 2026-01-22 —
Physics-Based Aeroanalysis Methods for Open Rotor Conceptual Design Completed 6 Tools and Methodologies for Vehicle and Concept Definition Activities Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
rHEALTH X for Comprehensive Biomedical Analysis Completed 8 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis The DNA Medicine Institute 2026-01-22 —
Printed Ultra-High Temperature NDE Sensors for Complex Structures Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Quest Integrated, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight, non-mechanical, polarization-independent LiDAR beam steering system Completed 4 Lasers BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements 2026-01-22 —
Hydrogen-Based Energy Conservation System Completed 8 Commodity Recovery Skyre, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SiGe 130 nm-based Rad-Hard ADC for the JEO Mission Completed 4 Data Acquisition Systems Ridgetop Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dualband MW/LW Strained Layer Superlattice Focal Plane Arrays for Satellite-Based Wildfire Detection Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes QmagiQ, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Sun Flower: Systems Design and Technology Maturation of a Sustainable Lunar Power Generation Architecture Completed 4 Lightweight Concepts Trans Astronautica Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Free-Flying Unmanned Robotic Spacecraft for Asteroid Resource Prospecting and Characterization Completed — Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible, High Char Yield Hybridsil Adhesive Materials for Next Generation Ablative Thermal Protecti Completed 5 Thermal Protection Systems Nanosonic, 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.