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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 332 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
High-Purity, Defined-Envelope Pressure Bladder Completed 4 Portable Life Support System RAPA Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
MF-CRA: Multi-Function Cognitive Radio Architecture for Space Communications Completed 4 Spectrum Efficiency EpiSys Science, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Design and Process Development of Thin-Ply Composites Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Composites Automation, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Medical Crew Assistant (IMCA) Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Tietronix Software, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Metroplex-Wide Runway Configuration Management using COBRA (Configuration Optimization for Balanced Runway/Route Assignments) Tool Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Scientific Systems Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Design and Fabrication of a Mars Ascent Vehicle Reaction Control System Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
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. 2026-01-22 —
Interferometric Star Tracker - Phase II Completed 5 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Optical Physics Company 2026-01-22 —
Enabling Model-Based Systems Engineering with Sedaro Satellite Completed 3 Model-Based Systems Engineering Sedaro Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Processor Redundancy Enabled Software Event Recovery with Voting (PRESERV) Completed 4 Quantum Communications Emergent Space Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low-Cost, High-Performance Combustion Chamber for LOX/CH4 Propulsion, Phase II Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
W-band Array Manufacturing Improvements Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Nuvotronics, Inc 2026-01-22 —
CMOS Compatible SOI MESFETs for Radiation Hardened DC-to-DC Converters Completed 3 Hazard Assessment SJT Micropower 2026-01-22 —
High-Reliability Space-Qualified LIDAR Source Packages Completed 6 Lasers Freedom Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Fully Printed Flexible 4-bit 2D (4x4) 16-Element Graphene-Based Phased Array Antenna System Completed 6 Innovative Antennas Omega Optics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Enabling Technology for Small Satellite Launch Completed 6 Separation Systems Design_Net Engineering LLC 2026-01-22 —
Integrated magnetics, insulation, and cooling architecture for robust eVTOL motors Completed 3 Hybrid Electric Systems Hinetics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Computational Tool for Coupled Simulation of Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows with Ablation Completed 6 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Cyclotronic Plasma Actuator with Arc-Magnet for Active Flow Control Completed 5 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions CU Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Electric Potential and Field Instrument for CubeSat (EPIC) Completed 6 High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Composite Technology Development, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Balloon SATCOM Completed 4 Optimetrics Innoflight, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ultra High Energy Solid-State Batteries for Next Generation Space Power Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Solid Power, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Visible Light Communications for Distributed Space Systems Completed 4 Disruption Tolerant Networking NYRAD, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Intelligent Power Source Reliability Monitoring and Failure Mitigation System Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Alphacore, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integration of Tactical Departure Scheduling and Traffic Flow Management Completed 3 Grappling Technologies Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Model-Based Fault-management System Design Completed 4 Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis ASCA, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Enabling Aerial Close-Proximity and Contact Sensing for Inspection of Industrial Infrastructure Completed 6 — Near Earth Autonomy, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Sensitivity Light Gyro and Accelerometers Completed 4 Navigation Sensors Lenzner Research, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Operations Technologies for Ground and Launch Systems (SBIR) Completed 4 Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems American GNC Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Passive Technology to Improve Criticality Control of NTP Reactors Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation-Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Manufacture of Monolithic Telescope with a Freeform Surface Completed 4 Optical Components Optimax Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Accelerating Memory-Access-Limited HPC Applications via Novel Fast Data Compression Completed 7 Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset Accelogic, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Integrated Control and Protection Methodology Based on Energy-Space Modeling for EAP Aircraft Completed 3 All-Electric Propulsion New Electricity Transmission Software Solutions (NETSS) 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Cookware and Techniques for Food Preparation at Reduced Pressure and Gravity Completed 4 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Makel Engineering, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Tunable Narrow-Band Bi-Photon Source in IR Spectral Region for Calibration of High-Performance Transition-Edge Sensors Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes ADVR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Compact, Rugged and Low-Cost Atmospheric Ozone DIAL Transmitter Completed 6 Lasers Bridger Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Rover Slip Estimation and Traction Control for Optimal Mobility in Lunar Environments Completed 7 Surface Mobility Protoinnovations, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Tactile Data Entry System Completed 6 Distributed Collaboration and Coordination Barron Associates, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
DURACON-IR: Durable and Conductive IR witness coatings for High Accuracy IR Thermography Completed 5 Impact, Damage, and Radiation-Resistant Systems Materials Technologies Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Novel Solid State Lasers for Space-Based Water Vapor DIAL Completed 4 Environment Sensors Fibertek, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Millimeter-Wave Camera Completed 6 Destination Resource Exploration Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Lidar Wind Profiler for the NextGen Airportal Completed 5 Lasers Masstech, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Ionomer-membrane Water Processor System Design and EDU Demonstration Completed 5 Water Recovery and Management Paragon Space Development Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High Temperature Sensors Using Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanowires Completed 7 Aerodynamics HARP Engineering, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Miniaturized Radiation Hardened Beam-Steerable GPS Receiver Front End Completed 3 Attitude Estimation Sensors Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc., 2026-01-22 —
Error-Frame Representation for Spacecraft Visual Relative Navigation Completed 6 Optimetrics XAnalytix Systems 2026-01-22 —
UCDS Based Stable Injector Design Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Innovative High Temperature Heat Pipes for Spacecraft Nuclear Fission Systems Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Hybrid Element Method for Compsoite Structures Subjected to Boundary Layer Loading Completed 3 Vibroacoustics Comet Technology Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Rotorcraft Diagnostics Completed 4 Test Instruments and Sensors Qualtech Systems, 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.