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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 328 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Robust Trajectory Design in Highly Perturbed Environments Leveraging Continuation Methods Completed 4 Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV) Monitoring System Using Fiber Completed 6 Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Nano and Micro Satellite Launch Stage and Automated Hypersonic Test Platform Completed 6 Solar Thermal Propulsion HyperSciences, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Low Mass Low Power Hall Thruster System Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Specificity BioAerosol Particle (HS-BAP) Sensor Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Photon Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Monolithic Integrated Coherent Optical Receiver for Space Vehicle LIDAR Sensors Completed 4 Lasers Freedom Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Torch-Augmented Spark Igniter for Nanosat Launch Vehicle LOX/Propylene Rocket Engine Completed 5 Earth Storable Propellants Garvey Spacecraft Corporation 2026-01-22 —
ARCSTONE Improvements Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Resonon, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Structural Nervous System Completed 4 Reliability and Sustainment Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low-Cost Beamforming SiGe MMIC Receivers at mm-Wave Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors NxGen Electronics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Picometer-Resolution MEMS Segmented DM Completed 3 Mirror Systems Iris AO, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra Compact Laser for 3D Imaging LIDAR Completed 5 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Q-Peak, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Market Mechanisms for Airspace Flow Program Slots Completed 2 Structures and Antennas Metron Aviation, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Electronic Speed Controller Completed 7 All-Electric Propulsion 4D Tech Solutions, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Cryogenic Cam Butterfly Valve Completed 3 Launch Vehicle Propellant C-Suite Services, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Bifunctional Membrane for High Energy, Long Shelf Life Li-S Batteries Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Navitas Advanced Solutions Group, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Utilization of Materials International Space Station Flight Facility to Advance TRL of Seed Laser for Space-Based Lidar Measurements Completed 5 Lasers ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Two-Phase Flow Phenomena Sensor for Enhanced Thermal Management Control Completed 4 Heat Transport Stratos Perception, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Alignment Advancements for Eye-Safe Coherent Lidar Completed 2 Lasers Beyond Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Suspended Cell Culture ANalysis (SCAN) Tool to Enhance ISS On-Orbit Capabilities Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-01-22 —
Size-Sorted Regolith Streams for ISRU Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Grainflow Dynamics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
RFC Combing Non-Flow-Through Fuel Cell and Self-Pressurized Electrolyzer Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells ElectroChem, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lunar Dust Filtration and Collection System Completed 4 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Analytical Scientific Products LLC 2026-01-22 —
Automated Real-Time Clearance Analyzer (ARCA) Completed 6 Traffic Management Concepts Architecture Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Rechargeable Lithium Battery for Space Applications Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries NextGen Battery Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
High Specific Power Primary Fuel Cell System Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Precision Combustion, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Universal High Efficiency Modular Discharge Over a Wide Input/Output Voltage Range for Hall Thruster Power Processing Unit Completed 4 Management and Control Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Augmented Reality Completed 4 Human Factors Engineering METECS 2026-01-22 —
Non-Mechanical Dual-Mode Beam Control System for LiDARs Completed 4 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements 2026-01-22 —
CubeSat Proximity Operations Demonstration (CPOD) Completed 7 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Sensor Processing and Processors Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Micro GC's for Contaminant Monitoring in Spacecraft Air Completed 6 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Cbana Laboratories 2026-01-22 —
Striction-based Power Monitoring in Space Environment Completed 5 Management and Control QorTek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Warm Gas Generator Resistojet Micropropulsion System Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Benchmark Space Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
METIS: A System and MBSE Methodology for Small Spacecraft Development Completed 5 Model-Based Systems Engineering Orbital Transports, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent, Autonomous Spacecraft Operations Management System Completed 5 — Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
SAVDS - A Decision Support Tool (DST) Enabling UAV Flights Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight Completed 5 Safe All-Vehicle Access SAVDS, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Parallel Enhancements of the General Mission Analysis Tool Completed 3 Software Modeling and Model Checking Thinking Systems, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Graphene for Expandable Space Structures Completed 3 Flexible Material Systems Structured Materials Industries, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
MISSE Experiments for Evaluation of Reliability of Cryogenic Tank Systems and Materials Completed 6 Materials for Extreme Environments CleanNG, LLC 2026-01-22 —
In-Situ Sensing of Additive Manufacturing Process for safety-Critical Aerospace Applications Completed 6 Design and Certification Methods Alpha STAR Corp 2026-01-22 —
Morphing Upper Torso: A Resizable and Adjustable EVA Torso Assembly Completed 5 Pressure Garment David Clark Company Incorporated 2026-01-22 —
All Solid State Li-S Batteries Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Storagenergy Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Innovative Stirling-Cycle Cryocooler for Long Term In-Space Storage of Cryogenic Liquid Propellants Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Converter Source, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Innovative Microbial Surface Sampler Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors QuickSilver Analytics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lightweight Radiation Shielding Composites for Small Spacecraft Completed 5 Lightweight Structural Materials Nanosonic, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Anode Electrocatalysis Concept for Direct Methane SOFCs Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Lynntech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
NanoDrill: 1 Actuator Core Acquisition System Completed 6 Grappling Technologies Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
Contact Stress Design Parameters for Titanium Bearings Completed 6 Pressure Garment Air-Lock, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low Profile, Low Frequency, Adaptively-Tuned Acoustic Liner Completed 4 Lightweight Concepts Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Affordable, Ultra-stable CVC SiC UVOIR Telescope for BENI Mission Completed 6 Mirror Systems Trex Enterprises Corporation 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.