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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 309 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Kamodo Containerized Space Weather Models Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Ensemble Government Services, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Hydroponic Rego-rock Produced In-Space for Efficient and Healthy Crop Growth Completed 5 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Nanosonic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Additive Manufacturing of Hydrogen-rich Polymer-Regolith Composites for Radiation-Shielding Habitat Materials Completed 4 Protection Systems International Scientific Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Sulfur Polymer Matrix Composites Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Wearable Personal Hydrazine Monitoring System Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry 2026-01-22 —
Vacuum-Regenerable Trace Contaminant Control for Exploration Portable Life Support System Completed 4 Portable Life Support System Precision Combustion, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
DEP Aircraft Terminal Area Ride Quality/Safety of Operations Assessment Tool Completed 4 Flight Mechanics Testing and Flight Operations Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
The Phased Array Terrain Interferometer (PathIn): A New Sensor for UAS Synthetic Vision and Ground Collision Avoidance Completed 5 Aircraft Avionics Systems Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Small Probe Reentry System Completed 3 Thermal Protection Systems Global Aerospace Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Primary Tweeters: Segmented Micro-Mirrors for Picometer-Scale Wavefront Compensation in Space-Based Observatories Completed 4 Mirror Systems Boston Micromachines Corporation 2026-01-22 —
The Compact Hyperspectral Aberration-Corrected Platform (CHAP), an Instrument for Microspacecraft. Completed 4 Environment Sensors Planetary Resources Development Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Production of Geometrically Complex Superalloy Components Completed 6 Solids Transition45 Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Probabilistic Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Composite Aircraft Components Completed 6 Tests, Tools, and Methods Global Engineering and Materials, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Redox Tolerant Cathode for Solid Oxide Electrolysis Stacks Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables OxEon Energy, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Density Hybrid Motors Completed 4 Hybrids Terves Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Cryogenic Propellant Liquefaction System (I-CPLS) Completed 3 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Mainstream Engineering Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Data Mining for Aircraft Health Management Completed 6 Cyber Infrastructure Mitek Analytics LLC 2026-01-22 —
Novel Fluid Preservation System Completed 9 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis ChromoLogic, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Vapor Compression Refrigeration System for Cold Storage on Spacecrafts Completed 4 Long-Duration Health Air Squared, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Frequency-Locked Single-Frequency Fiber Laser at 2 Micron Completed 5 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Space Evaporator Absorber Radiator for Life Support and Thermal Control Systems Completed 6 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Dual Pulsed Pump Laser for Trace Gas Detection Completed 4 Lasers Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Certification and Safety of In-Flight Multi-Objective Decision Making Algorithm Techniques Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Localized 3-D Fiber Reinforcement in C-C and Ceramic Composites Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion North Country Composits, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Customizable InterSystem Wireless Data/Energy Transfer (CUSTOS-WiT) System Completed 5 Distribution and Transmission American GNC Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Based Solid State Smart Circuit Protection Completed 5 Hybrid Electric Systems LaunchPoint Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
VTX HyHeat Completed 6 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion ORBITEC 2026-01-22 —
A LIBS/Raman System for Planetary Surface Measurement Completed 6 Lasers Q-Peak, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact Integrated Midwave Infrared Spectrometer Completed 3 Lasers Mirios, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Radiation-Hardened Power Conversion Completed 3 Dynamic Energy Conversion Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
PM/IDE - An Integrated Development Environment for Planning Models Completed 3 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Space Station Validation of Advanced Radiation-Shielding Polymeric Materials Completed 7 Protection Systems International Scientific Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency Semiconductor Arrays for Hard X-Ray Imaging Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Embedded Multifunctional Optical Sensor System Completed 6 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Physical Optics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Rad-Hard Adaptive Dual-Mode Event-Based Vision and Perception for Autonomous Robot Operations Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
The Small Mixed Field Autonomous Radiation Tracker (SMART) Dosimeter Completed 4 Monitoring Technology Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Frequency Up-Conversion Detection System with Single Photon Sensitivity within 1-1.8 ¿m and 3-4 ¿m for ASCENDS Mission: A Novel Approach to Lidar Completed 6 Lasers ArkLight 2026-01-22 —
Development of a Single-Frequency Narrow Linewidth 1.5mm Semiconductor Laser Suitable for Spaceflight Operation Completed 3 Lasers Redfern Integrated Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra-Lightweight Compact Heat Exchangers for Aerospace Applications Completed 3 Heat Transport microVection, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
RotCFD: A Viscous Design Tool for Advanced Configurations Completed 5 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Sukra Helitek Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Brayton Cryocooler for LOx and LH2 Applications Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Concepts NREC, LLC 2026-01-22 —
MEMS Skin Friction Sensor Completed 6 Aerodynamics Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Deep Learning Applied to Detecting Salient Features and Building Better 3D Models Completed 3 Surface Mobility Mesh Robotics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Stabilized Portable External Cavity Laser (SPECL) Completed — — AOSense, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
3D Printed Food System for Long Duration Space Missions Completed 4 Long-Duration Health Systems & Materials Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Comb Using Photonically Integrated Devices (CUPID) Completed 6 Lasers Vector Atomic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An Ultra Low Power Cryo-Refrigerator for Space Completed 5 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
An Instrument to Measure Aircraft Sulfate Particle Emissions Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Aerodyne Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High-Impulse, Scalable, Metal Plasma Thruster for Cubesat Missions Completed 9 Electromagnetic Propulsion Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Robotic Interface DogTags for Autonomous Habitat Outfitting and Logistics Completed 3 Habitation Systems Altius Space Machines, 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.