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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 280 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Damage Detection Using Two-Stage Compressive Sensing Completed 4 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Advent Innovations Limited 2026-01-22 —
High Speed Frequency Locking Module for Lidar Based Remote Sensing Systems Completed 5 Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-Altitude Wind Hazard Alerting and Rerouting Service Completed 3 Ground and Flight Test Technologies ATAC 2026-01-22 —
Space Evaporator Absorber Radiator (SEAR) for Thermal Storage on Manned Spacecraft Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Design and Manufacture of Pin Tools for Friction Stir Welding of Temperature-Resistant Materials Completed 4 Special Materials Transition45 Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reliable Non-Swaged Cathode Heater Designs Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Orbion Space Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Low Power Rad-Hard ADC for the KID Readout Electronics Completed 4 Electronics Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Low-Loss Ferrite Components for NASA Missions Completed 7 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Micro Harmonics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Vapor Cooled Structure MLI: Efficient Vapor Cooling of Structural Elements Completed 4 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Quest Thermal Group 2026-01-22 —
Sail Trimming Actuator for Targeted Reentry (STARTR) Completed 3 Solar Sails Roccor, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Magnetometer Components for Space and Planetary Exploration Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Twinleaf, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Chip-Based High Vacuum Pump for Planetary Mass Spectrometry Completed 5 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Connecticut Analytical Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High Sensitivity, High Frequency Sensors for Hypervelocity Testing and Analysis Completed 4 Thermal Protection Systems Nanosonic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Bendable Electrodynamic Dust Shields Completed 5 Materials for Extreme Environments Hedgefog Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
RFI Mitigating Receiver Back End for Radiometers Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
In-Space Demonstration of Submicron Active Optomechanical Control Completed 8 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advancing Hyperspectral Data Cube Query Capabilities through Apache Spark DataFrame Abstraction Completed 6 Public Cloud Supercomputers Azavea, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Thermally Stable Catalytic Combustors for Very High Altitude Airbreathing Propulsion Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Hybrid Water Removal and Reclaimation System (HyWaRRS) Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Automated VuLnerability Assessment and Risk Mitigation for Future Aviation Systems Safety, ALARM Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies University Technical Services, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reusable Handheld Electrolytes and Lab Technology for Humans (rHEALTH Sensor) Completed — Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis The DNA Medicine Institute 2026-01-22 —
DIHeDRAL: Downhole Regolith Interrogation with Helium-Assisted Drill and LIBS Completed — Sample Handling Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Dissimilar Metal Welding of Refractory Metals Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes GenNEXT Materials and Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Enhancement of the Geomagnetic Cutoff Models inside SIRE2 Completed 3 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling Fifth Gait Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Domestically Available C/C for Hot Structure Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Materials Research and Design, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Agent Cognitive Architectures for Human Exploration Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Soar Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Density Cooling and Efficient Thermoelectric Heat Pumps Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Nanohmics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A SiC-based Microcontroller for High-Temperature In-Situ Instruments and Systems Completed 4 Environment Sensors Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Remote UV Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer Completed — Optical Components Redondo Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Reliable and Real Time Linux for HPSC Completed 7 Robot Navigation and Path Planning Antara Teknik, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Relativity Space: 3D Printing the Future Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Relativity Space, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Quick Spacecraft Thermal Analysis Tool Completed — Thermal Control Analysis LoadPath 2026-01-22 —
High-Capacity, High-Speed, Solid-State Hydrogen Gas Generator Completed 4 Hypersonic Decelerators Anasphere, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
GaN-Based High Power High Frequency Wide Range LLC Resonant Converter Completed 3 Management and Control SET Group, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Assembly of Large Aperture Space Telescopes in Cislunar Space Using a Swarm of Autonomous Small Satellites Completed 3 Mirror Systems Ten One Aerospace LLC 2026-01-22 —
Passive Wireless Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Albido Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Integrated System Health Management for Sustainable Habitats using TEAMS Completed 4 Habitation Systems Qualtech Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Rugged and Low-Cost Atmospheric Ozone DIAL Transmitter Completed 4 Structures and Antennas Bridger Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
NeuRover: Rover Enabled Neutron Energy Detector for Lunar Resource Mapping Completed 4 Destination Resource Exploration Radiation Detection Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Novel Low Cost Booster Propulsion Development and Demonstration Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Compositex, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Full-Scale eVTOL Aircraft Aerodynamic and Acoustic Flight Test, Modeling and Simulation Completed 5 Aeroacoustics Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Uncooled High-Performance InAsSb Focal Plane Arrays Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes SVT Associates 2026-01-22 —
Radiation-Tolerant Neuromorphic Processor Featuring Nonvolatile Compute-in-Memory Architecture Completed 4 Above-Surface Mobility ANAFLASH INC. 2026-01-22 —
The Design and Integration of a Distributed Fan Propulsion System within a Split-Wing Completed 3 Hybrid Electric Systems Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Improved Abrasion Resistance of High Temperature Seals Completed 5 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Jackson Bond Enterprises LLC 2026-01-22 —
Downlink Fiber Laser Transmitter for Deep Space Communication Completed — Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Unsteady Turbulent Combustion Simulation Capability for Space Propulsion Systems Completed 5 Cryogenic Analysis, Safety, and Properties Streamline Numerics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Additively Manufactured Monolithic LOx/Methane Vortex RCS Thruster Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Asynchronous Geiger-mode photon counting arrays for deep space optical communications Completed 6 Detector Development 3D-SensIR, Inc 2026-01-22 —
A Compact, Gravity-Insensitive Gas Trap for Extreme Temperature Environments Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC 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.