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 289 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Laser Absorption Imaging diagnostic system for arc jet facilities	Completed	7	Entry, Descent, and Landing	Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
A Compact In Situ Sensor for Measurement of Absorption and Backscattering in Natural Waters	Completed	4	Lasers	Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
Game-Changing Photovoltaic Flexible Blanket Solar Array Technology with Spectrolab Flexsheets	Completed	4	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Deployable Space Systems, Inc
Improved Design of Radiation Hardened, Wide-Temperature Analog and Mixed-Signal Electronics	Completed	3	Operational Trust Building	CFD Research Corporation
Deployable, Lightweight, Freeze-Tolerant Radiator For Two Phase Thermal Management	Completed	3	Heat Rejection and Storage	Creare, LLC
Boost Compressor for xPLSS CO2/H20 Control on Mars	Completed	6	Portable Life Support System	Creare, LLC
High Performance Hybrid Upper Stage for NanoLaunch Vehicles	Completed	5	Hybrids	Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc.
Deep Learning Processing Subsystem (DLPS): A HPSC-Compatible Deep Learning Coprocessor	Completed	5	Intelligent Data Understanding	Intelligent Automation, Inc.
CETACEAN: Autonomous and Modular Onboard Relative Navigation Software for On-Orbit Proximity Operations & Docking	Completed	5	—	Starfish Space, Inc.
Radiation Hardened Structured ASIC Platform for Rapid Chip Development for Very High Speed System on a Chip (SoC) and Complex Digital Logic Systems	Completed	6	High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays	Microelectronics Research Development Corporation
Bidirectional Dual Active Bridge Power Converter for Spacecraft Power Systems	Completed	4	Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation	Mainstream Engineering Corporation
GPU Accelerated Ultrasonic Guided Wave Simulation Toolbox (UGW-Sim) for Virtual Inspection of Complex Aerospace Structures	Completed	3	Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors	Intelligent Automation, Inc.
A Novel Low-cost, Ka-band, High Altitude, Multi-Baseline Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Sensor for Surface Water Ocean Topography	Completed	7	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc.
Solar Cube 2U: A Heliogyro Propulsion System for CubeSats	Completed	4	Lightweight Concepts	Altius Space Machines, Inc.
Deep Learning Based Real-Time Engine Prognostics and Health Management (DL-RTEPHM)	Completed	4	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
Optimization of Multiphase Injector Dynamics for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines	Active	6	Propulsion Systems	Spectral Energies, LLC
Lunar Heat Flow Probe	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
Integrated Flight Control Design and Multidisciplinary Optimization	Completed	4	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Bechamo, LLC
Miniature Nontoxic Nitrous Oxide-Propane (MINNOP) Propulsion	Completed	4	Solids	ORBITEC
RUSH	Completed	4	High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays	MaXentric Technologies, LLC
Miniature Sensor for Aerosol Mass Measurements	Completed	5	Environment Sensors	MSP Corporation
Separation Technology of On-Orbit Liquid and Excrement (STOOLE)	Completed	5	Waste Management	Paragon Space Development Corporation
High-Performance, Pump-Fed Propulsion for Mars Ascent Vehicle Applications	Completed	4	Earth Storable Propellants	Astra Space, Inc
Plasma Flow Control for Drag Reduction	Completed	3	Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles	Innovative Technology Applications Co.
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Local Oscillator	Completed	3	Optical Components	LongWave Photonics, LLC
Creep-Resistant Aromatic Polyester Thermosets for Thin-Ply Composites	Completed	4	Lightweight Structural Materials	ATSP Innovations
Affordable Resins for High-Performance, Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	Completed	3	Thermal Protection Materials	Cornerstone Research Group, Inc.
Contact Stress Design Parameters for Titanium Bearings	Completed	—	Pressure Garment	Air-Lock, Inc.
Silicon Carbide High Temperature Solid State Memory	Completed	4	Advanced Electronic Parts	CoolCAD Electronics, LLC
ELAS, Electric Lift Augmenting Slats	Completed	7	All-Electric Propulsion	CubCrafters Inc.
Hydrogen Wave Heater for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Component Testing	Completed	5	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	ACENT Laboratories LLC
TRACS -- A Cognitive Architecture for Deep Space Missions	Completed	5	Cryogenic Propulsion	Thinking Robots, Inc.
Miniature Optical Isolator	Completed	4	Optical Components	Physical Optics Corporation
Atmospheric Winds LIDAR Profiler	Completed	6	Lasers	Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation
High Hydrogen Thoraeus Rubber Gossamer Radiation Shielding for Human Protection	Completed	5	Protection Systems	Nanosonic, Inc.
Distributed compact plasma reactor sterilization for Planetary protection and contamination control for space missions	Completed	4	Planetary Protection	SurfPlasma
Seam Joining Techniques for Three-Dimensional Woven Carbon Naterial of at Least 1" Thickness.	Completed	3	Special Materials	Nhung's Notions
Low Cost Polymer Extrusion Real Time Defect Detection and In Situ Process Control	Completed	4	Manufacturing Processes	Titan Robotics Ltd.
Ultra-Miniaturized Star Tracker for Small Satellite Attitude Control	Completed	7	Navigation Sensors	Creare, LLC
Enabling Large-body Active Debris Removal	Completed	5	Capture Sensors	VectorNav Technologies, LLC
1.65um Pulsed Laser for Space Based Winds	Completed	4	Lasers	Fibertek, Inc.
Molten Regolith Electrolysis: The Extraction of Oxygen from Lunar Regolith	Completed	6	Destination Resource Exploration	Lunar Resources, Inc.
NDE Big Data Framework	Completed	6	Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle	—
SparkRS - Spark for Remote Sensing	Completed	3	Intelligent Data Understanding	Spiritus, Inc
Pyramid Comet Sampler	Completed	5	Grappling Technologies	Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
A Queuing Model-Based System for Triggering Traffic Flow Management Algorithms	Completed	5	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Optimal Synthesis, Inc.
Microcrack Resistant Matrix Materials for Out-of-Autoclave Processing of Composite Cryogenic Tanks	Completed	4	Impact, Damage, and Radiation-Resistant Systems	Composite Technology Development, Inc.
Pulsating Heat Pipe for Cryogenic Fluid Management	Completed	3	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Madison CryoGroup, LLC
Micro-Channel Reactor for Processing Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Reactive Innovations, LLC
Modified Ionic Liquid-Based High-Performance Lubricants for Robotic Operations	Completed	6	Surface Mobility	Innosense Corporation

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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.