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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 318 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Uncooled Multispectral Photoemissive Infrared Detector Completed 4 Environment Sensors Third Floor Materials 2026-01-22 —
Advanced High Efficiency Durable DACS Thruster Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Systima Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight, High-Flow, Low Connection-Force, In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Coupling Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Altius Space Machines, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low-Cost, Scalable, Hybrid Launch Propulsion Technology Completed 4 Hybrids Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Razor UAS Test and Evaluation System Completed 7 Distributed Simulation Adsys Controls Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Weather Sensor and Data Monitoring (WSDM) Service Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Resilienx 2026-01-22 —
Automated Manufacture of Damage Detecting, Self-Healing Composite Cryogenic Pressure Vessels Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Compact autonomous solar radiometer for atmospheric trace gas sounding Completed 4 Lasers Mesa Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Passive Thermal Control Valves for Loop Heat Pipes and Pumped Systems Completed 4 Heat Transport Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Multifunctional Integrated Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip for Astronaut Health Monitoring Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Non-Mechanical, Electro-Optic Beamsteerers for Space Based Laser Communications Completed 5 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Vescent Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Structural Abort Trigger for Ares Composites Completed 6 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Metis Design Corporation 2026-01-22 —
AutoNav Mark 4: Autonomous Navigation Software Completed 4 Navigation Sensors Blue Sun Enterprise, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Alternative Hydrocarbon Propulsion for Nano / Micro Launch Vehicle Completed 6 Earth Storable Propellants Garvey Spacecraft Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Flame Retardant Polyamide Fibers for Space Crew Clothing Completed 4 Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses Materials Modification, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Floating Seal for Turbopumps Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Kilowatt Level Uplinks for Deep Space Optical Communications Completed 4 Lasers Optical Engines, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Extraction of Supplemental Meteorological Data Completed 3 Planetary Protection Intellisense Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra High Temperature Capacitive Pressure Sensor Completed 6 Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management Sporian Microsystems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
DataCell - A Solar Cell Integrated Modulating Retroreflector Completed 6 Optimetrics Blacksky Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
ORSC Methane Ascent/Descent Engine Technology Development Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Special Aerospace Services 2026-01-22 —
Verification & Validation of Complex Autonomy Concepts Using the Cloud Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Crown Consulting, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Magnetically Actuated Seal Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Temperature, Heat Flux and Recession Sensing for Ablative Thermal Protection Systems Completed 4 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Industrial Measurement Systems Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Dynamically Reconfigurable Software and Mobility Architecture for Autonomous Planetary Rovers Completed 6 Surface Mobility Protoinnovations, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High-Repetition-Rate Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering for Velocity, Density, and Temperature Meas Completed 7 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Expeditionary BVLOS Infrastructure and UTM for Airborne Wildfire Response Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Anzen Unmanned LLC 2026-01-22 —
Compact 2-Micron Transmitter for Remote Sensing Applications Completed — Lasers Beyond Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Pump-fed Transfer Stage for Venture Class Cislunar & Deep Space Missions Completed 5 Earth Storable Propellants Flight Works, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Functionally Graded Polyimide Nanocomposite Foams for Ablative and Inflatable/Flexible/Deplorable Structures Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Koo & Associates International 2026-01-22 —
High Speed Digitizer for Remote Sensing Completed 6 Data Acquisition Systems Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Additively Manufactured Dynamically Adjustable Venturi Completed 8 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
3D Flash LIDARAll Weathr Safety Completed 6 Lasers Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Robotic ISRU Construction of Planetary Landing and Launch Pad Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Fault Tolerant Computing based on a Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Architecture Completed 5 Management and Control Resilient Computing 2026-01-22 —
Broadband Millimeter-Wave Hybrid Circulators for NASA Missions Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Micro Harmonics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Aviation Particle Composition Analyzer Completed 4 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Aerodyne Research, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Integrity GPS Solution for Trusted Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies R Cubed Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
A Robust, Gravity-Insensitive, High-Temperature Condenser Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Throughput Soft X-Ray Filters with Enhanced IR-Rejection Completed 4 Mirror Systems Luxel Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Redox Tolerant Cathode for Solid Oxide Electrolysis Stacks Completed 5 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables OxEon Energy, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Multiple Failure Response Procedure System Completed 6 Fault Response Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SiC-SiC and C-SiC Honeycomb for Advanced Flight Structures Completed 4 Insulation and Interfaces Ultracor 2026-01-22 —
Dust Tolerant Mechanisms Alpha Particle Emitter Coating System (APECS) Completed 5 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation United Protective Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Liquid Sorption Pump Completed 6 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Pioneer Astronautics 2026-01-22 —
Spatially and Temporally Resolved Diagnostics of Dense Sprays Using Gated, Femtosecond, Digital Holography Completed 5 Turbine-Based Jet Engines MetroLaser, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft Comprehensive Analysis and Design Tool Completed 4 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Continuum Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Investigative Research, FMECA and PHM Modeling of Hybrid-Electric Distributed Propulsion System Architectures Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Mega-Watt Class High Voltage, Variable Frequency, Propulsor Power Unit Completed 3 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage Balcones Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Non-Toxic HAN Monopropellant Propulsion Completed — Earth Storable Propellants Plasma Processes, 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.