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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 339 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
High Temperature CMOS Control and Power Converter Electronics Completed 5 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation CoolCAD Electronics, LLC 2026-01-22 —
Small-sat Propellant Management Technology Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Purdue University-Main Campus 2026-01-22 —
Stratospheric Parabolic Flight Technology Completed 5 Environment Sensors Purdue University-Main Campus 2026-01-22 —
Smart Propulsion System (SmartProp) Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Iodine Hall Thruster Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Glenn Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) Completed 7 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Hybrid Ultimate Lifting Kit (HULK) Device Demonstration during Parabolic Flight Completed 6 Prevention and Countermeasures Glenn Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Application of controlled vibrations to multiphase systems Testing Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety - High-altitude (ARMAS-Hi) (ARMAS-Hi) Completed 7 Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling Space Environment Technologies, LLC 2026-01-22 —
1U CubeSat Green Propulsion System with Post-Launch Pressurization Testing Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Busek Company, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Micro-Avionics Multi-Purpose Platform (MicroAMPP) (MicroAMPP) Completed 9 Avionics Systems and Subsystems Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Suborbital Testing of Liquid Acquisition Devices for Cryogenic Fluid Management Completed 6 Earth Storable Propellants Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio 2026-01-22 —
High Energy Li-Ion Battery (HEB) Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray Propulsion Demonstration (TILE) Completed 8 Electrostatic Propulsion Accion Systems, Inc 2026-01-22 —
Triboelectric Nano Generator (TENG) for Mars Exploration and High Altitude Power Generation on Earth Completed 4 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Applying Optimization and Artificial Intelligence to NASA’s Communications Networks: Cognitive Real-Time Link Layer Adaptations to Rapid Constellation Planning Completed 3 Flight and Ground Systems Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 2026-01-22 —
Sintering of Composite Materials under Reduced Gravity Conditions Completed 8 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Advanced Technical Institute I.T.I.S "E. Fermi" 2026-01-22 —
Dynetics Nanolaunch Study Completed — — Langley Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Universal Access Tranceiver (UAT) Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) Completed 7 Range Tracking, Surveillance, and Flight Safety Technologies FAA-AST 2026-01-22 —
A Suborbital Evaluation of Paraffin and Beeswax Formation in Microgravity for Low-Earth-Orbit Propulsion Applications Completed 6 Solids Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2026-01-22 —
Resource Recovery with Ionic Liquid for Exploration (RRILE) Canceled 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration (CCTD) Completed 6 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Facility for Microgravity Research and Submicroradian Stabilization using sRLV Testing Completed 9 Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies Controlled Dynamics Inc. 2026-01-22 —
MOJO-Micro: Multi-Orthogonal Jaunting rObot in Microgravity Completed 5 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2026-01-22 —
Flight Test of a Balloon-borne Aeroseismometer Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Sandia National Laboratories 2026-01-22 —
CubeSat Articulated Boom Option Optimization in Microgravity (CABOOM) (CABOOM) Completed 6 Dexterous Manipulation University of Iowa 2026-01-22 —
Collection of Regolith Experiment (CORE) on a Commercial Suborbital Vehicle Completed 6 Destination Resource Exploration University of Central Florida 2026-01-22 —
Data Buoy for NASA's Long Duration High Altitude Balloons Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Near Space Corporation 2026-01-22 —
Evaluation of Medical Chest Drainage System Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Orbital Medicine, Inc 2026-01-22 —
ORBITEC Water Capture Device (WCD) Parabolic Flight Test Completed 6 Water Recovery and Management Sierra Nevada Corporation 2026-01-22 —
In-Space Robotic Servicing (ISRS) Completed 9 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-01-22 —
Evaluation of the Biosleeve Gesture Control Interface for Telerobotics in Microgravity Completed 5 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-01-22 —
Qualification Testing of Nanosatellite Propulsion System (Stellar Exploration) Completed 8 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
Diapason Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors DTM Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) Completed 7 Thermal Protection Systems Langley Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Autonomous Sampling Technology for Biological Research During Suborbital Rocket Flight Completed 6 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville 2026-01-22 —
Advanced Developments Projects (ADP) Flight Avionics Completed 6 Aircraft Avionics Systems Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot (SPIDER) Completed 6 Dexterous Manipulation Maxar Technologies 2026-01-22 —
Zero-gravity Green Propellant Management Technology Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Purdue University-Main Campus 2026-01-22 —
Viability of in-situ Lunar Manufacturing of Life Support Systems using a Direct Writing Technique Completed 6 Atmosphere Revitalization University of Colorado Boulder 2026-01-22 —
Autolanding for Robotic Precursor Missions Completed 6 Touchdown Systems Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-01-22 —
Parabolic Flight: Validation of Electro-Hydrodynamic Gas-Liquid Phase Separation in Microgravity Completed 6 Atmosphere Revitalization New Jersey Institute of Technology 2026-01-22 —
Reusable Vehicle Systems Manager (RVSM) Completed 3 — Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Lunar Oxygen/Water Extraction (LOWE) Canceled 6 Environment Testing Johnson Space Center 2026-01-22 —
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) (ADS-B) Completed 4 Aeroacoustics FAA-AST 2026-01-22 —
Nephelometer Experiment (NephEx) Completed 6 Environment Sensors Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) Completed 6 — Ames Research Center 2026-01-22 —
Testing Near-Infrared Neuromonitoring Devices for Detecting Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes in Parabolic Flight Completed 7 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts General Hospital 2026-01-22 —
Trajectory Tracking in Nonlinear, High-Order, Underactuated Robotic Systems Completed 3 Path Planning University of California-Berkeley 2026-01-22 —
Modal Propellant Gauging in Microgravity Testing Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Carthage College 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.