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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 →

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 329 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Advanced Mirror Material System Completed 6 Mirror Systems The Peregrine Falcon Corporation
Low-loss deployable reflector antenna at frequencies up to 200 GHz for small satellites Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology
Acoustic Monitoring for Spaceflight Vehicle Applications Completed 6 State Estimation and Monitoring Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation
Gimbal Mechanism for Extreme Environments Completed 5 Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility Tethers Unlimited Inc
High Performance Solver for Coupled Cavitation and Fluid-Structure Interaction in Cryogenic Environments Completed 6 Collaborative Science and Engineering Streamline Numerics, Inc.
Efficient, High Power Density Hydrocarbon-Fueled Solid Oxide Stack System Completed 5 Dynamic Energy Conversion Precision Combustion, Inc.
Speed Sensor for Planetary EDL: "SPRY" Completed 3 Atmosphere Characterization Michigan Aerospace Corporation
Simulating CubeSat Structure Deployment Dynamics Completed 5 Design and Analysis Tools and Methods MotionPort, LLC
SHIMS -- A Spatial Heterodyne Interferometer for Methane Sounding Completed 6 Optical Components Scientific Solutions
5 Watt per Kilogram Tritium Betavoltaic Completed 6 Dynamic Energy Conversion City Labs, Inc.
Efficient High Fidelity Computational Tool for Acoustically Driven Multiphysics Propulsion Modeling Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Tetra Research Corporation
LiDAR-based Navigation and Mapping for Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, Docking Completed 4 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Astrobotic Technology, Inc.
Additive Manufacturing of Ion Thruster Optics Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Plasma Controls, LLC
Cuberover for Lunar Science and Exploration Completed 6 Astrobotic Technology, Inc.
Volcanic Ash Detection Using Raman LIDAR: "VADER" Completed 4 Environment Sensors Michigan Aerospace Corporation
Innovative High Temperature Heat Pipes for Spacecraft Nuclear Fission Systems Completed Dynamic Energy Conversion Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
High-Performance Recuperators for Low-Temperature Turbo-Brayton Cryocoolers Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Creare, LLC
In-Process X-ray Sensor for Additive Manufacturing Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Advanced Analyzer Labs, Inc.
Visualizing and Comparing Exploration Plan Alternatives and Change Effects (xPACE) Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction TRACLabs, Inc.
High Temperature Bell Motor Completed 4 Surface Mobility Bear Technologies, LLC
CUA OpenMP Nonlinear Optimization Tool Completed 6 Revolutionary PNT Technologies CU Aerospace, LLC
Elemental Resource Breakdown Approach to Crew-Vehicle Design Completed 3 Human Factors Engineering The Space Research Company, LLC
Neuromorphic Processor with radiation tolerant MRAM Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Numem Inc
High Power (50W), 1.5um WDM Fiber Laser Transmitter with Effective FWM Mitigation Completed 6 Optimetrics Fibertek, Inc.
SPRINT: Scheduling Planning Routing Intersatellite Network Tool (SPRINT) Completed 5 Integrated Network Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Near-Zero CTE 3D Printed RoboSiC Deployable Truss Core Structures with Active Precision Adjustment Completed 4 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Goodman Technologies, LLC
High-Purity, Defined-Envelope Pressure Bladder Completed 4 Portable Life Support System RAPA Technologies, LLC
MF-CRA: Multi-Function Cognitive Radio Architecture for Space Communications Completed 4 Spectrum Efficiency EpiSys Science, Inc.
Design and Process Development of Thin-Ply Composites Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Composites Automation, LLC
Intelligent Medical Crew Assistant (IMCA) Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Tietronix Software, Inc.
Metroplex-Wide Runway Configuration Management using COBRA (Configuration Optimization for Balanced Runway/Route Assignments) Tool Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Design and Fabrication of a Mars Ascent Vehicle Reaction Control System Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Ultramet
Development of Non-Contact Trace Contamination Detection Methods and Instrumentation for Spacecraft Cleaning Validation Using Deep UV Chemical Imaging Completed 4 Planetary Protection Photon Systems, Inc.
Interferometric Star Tracker - Phase II Completed 5 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Optical Physics Company
Enabling Model-Based Systems Engineering with Sedaro Satellite Completed 3 Model-Based Systems Engineering Sedaro Corporation
Processor Redundancy Enabled Software Event Recovery with Voting (PRESERV) Completed 4 Quantum Communications Emergent Space Technologies, LLC
Low-Cost, High-Performance Combustion Chamber for LOX/CH4 Propulsion, Phase II Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Ultramet
W-band Array Manufacturing Improvements Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Nuvotronics, Inc
CMOS Compatible SOI MESFETs for Radiation Hardened DC-to-DC Converters Completed 3 Hazard Assessment SJT Micropower
High-Reliability Space-Qualified LIDAR Source Packages Completed 6 Lasers Freedom Photonics, LLC
Fully Printed Flexible 4-bit 2D (4x4) 16-Element Graphene-Based Phased Array Antenna System Completed 6 Innovative Antennas Omega Optics, Inc.
Enabling Technology for Small Satellite Launch Completed 6 Separation Systems Design_Net Engineering LLC
Integrated magnetics, insulation, and cooling architecture for robust eVTOL motors Completed 3 Hybrid Electric Systems Hinetics, LLC
Computational Tool for Coupled Simulation of Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows with Ablation Completed 6 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation
Cyclotronic Plasma Actuator with Arc-Magnet for Active Flow Control Completed 5 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions CU Aerospace, LLC
Electric Potential and Field Instrument for CubeSat (EPIC) Completed 6 High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Composite Technology Development, Inc.
Balloon SATCOM Completed 4 Optimetrics Innoflight, Inc.
Ultra High Energy Solid-State Batteries for Next Generation Space Power Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Solid Power, Inc.
Visible Light Communications for Distributed Space Systems Completed 4 Disruption Tolerant Networking NYRAD, Inc
Intelligent Power Source Reliability Monitoring and Failure Mitigation System Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Alphacore, Inc.
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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.