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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 310 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Planetary Landing Lidar Completed 5 — Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
uG-LilyPond - Floating Plant Pond for Microgravity Completed 3 Logistics Management Space Lab Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
TRACAIR: TRAjectory Course Anomaly Identifier Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Global Technology Connection, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Net Shape Molding of Monolithic Complex-shaped Damage-Tolerant Cryo-Insulators Completed 3 Launch Vehicle Propellant Applied Analytic Research 2026-01-22 —
Thermal Mapping Airborne Simulator for Small Satellite Sensor Completed 4 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Xiomas Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Lightweight Bolt-on Deorbit Device for Spacecraft Completed 6 Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats L'Garde, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Passively Powered and Programmable Sensor-RFID for ISHM Systems Completed 5 Flight and Ground Systems Mobitrum Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Common and Configurable Flash LIDAR Sensor for Space-Based Autonomous Landing, Rendezvous, and Docking Missions Completed 4 Atmosphere Characterization Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Analysis and Design Environment for Large Scale System Models and Collaborative Model Development Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Phoenix Integration 2026-01-22 —
DIHeDRAL: Downhole Regolith Interrogation with Helium-Assisted DRill And LIBS Completed 4 Sample Handling Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Frequency-Locked Single-Frequency Fiber Laser at 2 Micron Completed 3 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Polybenzoxazine Materials for Radiation Shielding Completed 4 Protection Systems Material Answers LLC 2026-01-22 —
Reservoir Cathode for Electric Space Propulsion Completed 7 Electrostatic Propulsion E-beam, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Versatile 3D Imager for Human/Spacecraft Monitoring Completed 4 Relative Navigation Sensors Meadowlark Optics Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Next Generation Thermal Management Materials: Boron Arsenide for Isotropic Diamond Like Thermal Conductivity - Affordable BAs Processing Innovations Completed 4 Heat Transport Applied Material Systems Engineering, Inc. (AMSENG) 2026-01-22 —
Attitude Control Enhancement Using Distributed Wing Load Sensing for Dynamic Servoelastic Control Completed 4 Environment Sensors Systems Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Spacecraft Swarm Coordination and Planning Tool Completed 3 Fault Response Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
High-Gain, Low-Excess-Noise APD Arrays for Near-Single-Photon-Sensitive LADAR Completed 3 Atmosphere Characterization Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Char Flexible Polymers Completed 3 Flexible Material Systems TDA Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Blade Vibration Measurement System for Unducted Fans Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Mechanical Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
EO Scanned Micro-LADAR Completed 5 Lasers Vescent Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Solar Powered Long Endurance Small UAS Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Metal-Mesh Optical Filter Technology for Mid IR, Far IR, and Submillimeter Completed 5 Optical Components Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion TRACLabs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
INsight to Diverse Information using Graphs and Ontologies (INDIGO) Completed 4 Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling Galois, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Filtering Techniques Applied to Spaceflight Completed 3 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Sensor Processing and Processors IST-Rolla 2026-01-22 —
Multifunctional Environmental Digital Scanning Electron Microprobe (MEDSEM) Completed 6 Lasers ChromoLogic, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Geiger-Mode SiGe Receiver for Long-Range Optical Communications Completed 5 Detector Development Freedom Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Cryogenic Focus Mechanism Completed 3 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Motiv Space Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
GaN MMIC Ka-Band Power Amplifier Completed 3 Innovative RF Technologies Custom MMIC Design Services, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Testing of COTS Systems in Space Radiation Environments Completed 4 Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling Streamline Automation, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Secure Nano Electromechanical Systems-based Software-Defined Radio Completed 4 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Nanohmics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Through Wall Wireless Intelligent Sensor and Health Monitoring (TWall-ISHM) System Completed 5 Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems American GNC Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Powerhead for Methane Propulsion Systems Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion TGV Rockets, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Novel Silicon Carbide Deep Ultraviolet Detectors: Device Modeling, Characterization, Design and Prototyping Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes CoolCAD Electronics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Freeform Optics for Optical Payloads with Reduced Size and Weight Completed 4 Mirror Systems Voxtel, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Vehicle-Propulsion-Control Design for DEP-Enabled Aircraft (IDEA) Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Intelligent Automation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultracapacitor Based Power Supply for CubeSats Completed 3 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage FastCAP Systems Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Onboard Prognostics and Health Management for UAM using Machine Learning Techniques Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Flexible Polymer Sensor for Space Suits Completed 4 Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring Somatis Sensor Solutions 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous, Safe Take-Off and Landing Operations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Near Earth Autonomy, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Sample Encapsulation Device Completed 4 Sample Handling Cadtrak Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Data Fusion for Anomaly and Degradation Detection Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies CAL Analytics 2026-01-22 —
Radiation Hardened High Speed Integrated Circuits Double Data Rate I/O for Extreme Operating Environments Completed 3 Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Microelectronics Research Development Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High Resolution Autostereoscopic Cockpit Display Completed 3 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Dimension Technologies Inc 2026-01-22 —
Miniature Laser Magnetometer (MLM) Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Polatomic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact All Sky Interferometric Doppler Imager (CASIDI) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, LLC 2026-01-22 —
AstroPorter Completed 6 Collaborative Mobility Tethers Unlimited Inc 2026-01-22 —
In-Space Assembly and Manufacturing Using Synchronized Robotics Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Machina Labs, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Wide Throttling, High Throughput Hall Thruster for Science and Exploration Missions Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, 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.