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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.

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21,176 projects harvested so far — page 336 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Cryogenic Microphotonic Accelerometer Completed 4 Navigation Sensors OEwaves, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Temperature, Heat Flux and Recession Sensing for Ablative Thermal Protection Systems Completed — Thermal Protection Systems Industrial Measurement Systems Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Injector for LOX-GH Stable Combustion at Low Pressure and High Velocity Completed 6 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rocket Propulsion Systems, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Large-Scale Data Analysis Using Machine Learning Framework for Trajectory Prediction Algorithms Completed 3 Trajectory Design and Analysis Optimal Synthesis, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Additive Manufacturing of Low CTE Open Isogrid Composite Structure Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Continuous Composites Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Characterization and Mitigation of Radiation and High Temperature Effects in SiC Power Electronics Completed 4 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation CFD Research Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Silver Biocide Analysis & Control Device Completed 6 Water Recovery and Management Environmental and Life Support Tech. 2026-01-22 —
HybridSpectral Radiometer Systems to Support Ocean Color Cal/Val Completed 5 Environment Sensors Biospherical Instruments, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
A Novel Passively Mode-Locked Femtosecond Fiber Ring Laser of High Stability and Ultra Compactness Completed 4 Lasers Photonwares Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Requirements Management with Bidirectional Traceability in Modern Version Control Systems Completed 5 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Xwing, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Virtual World Editor Completed 3 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Tietronix Software, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Low Maintenance Lunar Dust Filtration Completed 4 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Thirty Millijoule Single Frequency 2 Micron Fiber Lasers for Coherent Wind Lidar Completed 3 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
ANSIBLE: A Network of Social Interactions for Bilateral Life Enhancement Completed — Behavioral Health and Performance SIFT, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Compact 2-Micron Transmitter for Remote Sensing Applications Completed 4 Lasers Beyond Photonics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Surviving the Lunar Night Using Metal Oxidation Warming Systems Completed 7 Heat Transport Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Instrument for Airborne Measurement of Carbonyl Sulfide Completed 4 Environment Sensors Southwest Sciences, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Aerogel-Filled Foam Core Insulation for Cryogenic Propellant Storage Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Ultramet 2026-01-22 —
Composite Facility Components Completed 4 Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-01-22 —
OrFPGA: An Empirical Performance Tuning Tool for FPGA Designs Completed 3 High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays RNET Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
REACT-EA (Robust Encounter Avoidance and Conflict Resolution using Evolutionary Algorithms) Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Scientific Systems Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency Quantum Well Waveguide Solar Cells Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Magnolia Solar, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
An Enhanced Software Toolkit for OpenNCC to Reduce NOx in Commercial Supersonic Transport Combustors Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Combustion Research and Flow Technology 2026-01-22 —
Next Generation Insulator for NTP Moderators Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation-Technologies 2026-01-22 —
High Performance Arm for an Exploration Space Suit Completed 6 Pressure Garment Final Frontier Design 2026-01-22 —
Multispectral Mid-Infrared Laser Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Mirios, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Projection/Reflection Heads-up Display Completed 6 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Physical Optics Corporation 2026-01-22 —
High-Performance Recuperator for Low-Temperature Turbo-Brayton Cryocoolers Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Low Cost Very Large Diamond Turned Metal Mirror Completed 6 Mirror Systems Dallas Optical Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Manufacture of Monolithic Telescope with a Freeform Surface Completed 5 Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes Optimax Systems, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Developing Near Real-time Data-Assimilative Models and Tools for the Space Environment Completed 3 Science Modeling Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Pyramid Comet Sampler Completed 4 Grappling Technologies Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
VIS-NIR Lightweight Spectrometer for the Sun and the Moon Completed 4 Optical Components EPIR, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Sample Return Regolith Sorter Design Challenge Completed — Lightweight Concepts Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
Water Recovery for Regenerative Life Support Systems Completed 5 Atmosphere Revitalization Creare, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Surface Abrasion Tool Completed 4 Sample Handling Bear Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Space Exposure for Structural-Health Aware Materials Experiment (SESAME) Completed 5 Reliability and Sustainment Made in Space, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks (EDSN) Completed 7 Adaptive Network Topology Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Engineered Alloy Structures by Friction Stir Reaction Processing Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Transition45 Technologies, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Machine Learning for Earth Science Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding Kraenion 2026-01-22 —
High Efficiency Direct Methane Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion NexTech Materials, Ltd. 2026-01-22 —
A Portable, Linear-Array Ultrasonic Imaging System for Rapid Inspection of Large-Area Composite Structures Completed 3 Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis X-wave Innovations, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
High Energy Density Lithium Battery System with an Integrated Low Cost Heater Sub-System for Missions on Titan. Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries American Energy Technologies Company 2026-01-22 —
Additively Manufactured Low Power Thrusters for Secondary Payloads Completed 4 Cold Gas Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Optimal Realtime Damage Identification in Composite Structures Completed 6 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Miniaturized Digital EVA Radio Completed 3 Spectrum Efficiency Bennett Aerospace, LLC 2026-01-22 —
640 GHz Heterodyne Polarimeter Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Virginia Diodes, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
ISS Multi-Material Fabrication Laboratory using Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Technology Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Ultratech Machinery 2026-01-22 —
A SINDA-Compatible Human Thermal Model for Assessing Crew-Induced Loads Completed 7 Heat Rejection and Storage ThermoAnalytics, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Design and Analysis Tools for Deployable Solar Array Systems Completed 5 Design and Analysis Tools and Methods ATA Engineering, 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.