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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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 345 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Droplet-Sizing Liquid Water Content Sensor Completed 6 Engine Icing Anasphere, Inc.
Miniaturized Variable-Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope Completed 5 Environment Sensors Creare, LLC
A Multi-Environment Thermal Control System With Freeze-Tolerant Radiator Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC
SiLix-C Nanocomposites for High Energy Density Li-ion Battery Anodes Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Superior Graphite Co.
Advanced Nanocomposite Membrane Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Lynntech, Inc.
5 in 1 Drill For Mars Sample Return Mission Completed 3 Sample Handling Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
High Efficiency Hall Thruster Discharge Power Converter Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc.
Microplate Heat Exchanger Completed 4 Heat Acquisition Micro Cooling Concepts, Inc.
A Miniaturized UV/VIS/IR Hyperspectral Radiometer for Autonomous Airborne and Underwater Imaging Spectroscopy of Coastal and Oceanic Environments Completed 7 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
Thermopile Area Array Readout Completed 3 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies Black Forest Engineering, LLC
A Two-Phase Cooling Loop for Fission Surface Power Waste Heat Transport Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Creare, LLC
Cost Reduction of IMM Solar Cells by Recycling Substrates Using Wet Chemical Etching Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power MicroLink Devices, Inc.
Efficient Lightweight AC-AC Power Control for Solar UAV Completed 3 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation Astral Infiniti, LLC
EDL Sensor Suite Completed 3 Lasers Optical Air Data Systems, LLC
Additive Friction Stir Deposition of Aluminum Alloys and Functionally Graded Structures Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Schultz-Creehan Holdings Inc
A High Performance Approach to Improving Auscultation Capability in Noisy Environments Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Signal Processing, Inc.
Stochastic Queuing Model Analysis to Support Airspace Super Density Operations (ASDO) Completed 3 Lasers Optimal Synthesis, Inc.
Fusion of Built in Test (BIT) Technologies with Embeddable Fault Tolerant Techniques for Power System and Drives in Space Exploration Completed 7 Navigation Sensors Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Three Dimensional Situational Awareness Sensor to Assist Descent and Landing of the Mars Lander Spacecraft Completed 4 Atmosphere Characterization Tetravue
Nano-Particle Scandate Cathode for Space Communications Completed 6 Power Efficiency E-beam, Inc.
High Efficiency Switching Power amplifier for Earth Radar Observation System (HESPEROS) Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Nu Waves, Ltd.
Development of a Low-SWAP, RAD-Tolerant, Thermally Stable, 10Gbps per Channel Fiber Optic Transceiver for Harsh Environment Networking Applications Completed 3 High-Speed Onboard Interconnects and Networks Space Photonics, Inc.
Radiation Mitigation Methods for Advanced Readout Array Completed 3 Optical Components RNET Technologies, Inc.
Long-Range Nondestructive Testing System Completed 5 Solar Thermal Propulsion MetroLaser, Inc.
Lunar Organic Waste Reformer Completed 5 Logistics Management Pioneer Astronautics
High Performance Ultra Low-Power ADCs and DACs Completed 5 Power Efficiency Microelectronics Research Development Corporation
An Implant-Passivated Blocked Impurity Band Germanium Detector for the Far Infrared Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes TechnoScience Corporation
A 750MHz and a 8GHz High Bandwidth Digital FFT Spectrometer Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Mosaix Technologies, Inc.
1.55 Micron High Peak Power Fiber Amplifier Completed 4 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc.
Automated Hybrid Microwave Heating for Lunar Surface Solidification Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Ceralink, Inc.
Design Environment for Multi-Fidelity and Multi-Disciplinary Components Completed 7 Tools and Methodologies for Vehicle and Concept Definition Activities Mechanical Solutions, Inc.
High Performance Plasma Channel Insulators for High Power Hall Thrusters Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Sienna Technologies, Inc.
Novel Wick Structures for Improved Heat Pipe Performance Completed 3 Heat Transport Thermacore, Inc.
Advanced Lightweight Metal Matrix Composite Segmented Optic Manufacture Completed 5 Mirror Systems Hardric Laboratories, Inc.
Expendable Guided Dropsonde Completed 6 Aerodynamic Decelerators Latitude Engineering
Extreme Temperature Gearhead Completed 5 Surface Mobility Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
Metric Tracking of Launch Vehicles Completed 4 Site Management for Launches, Tests, and Operations Toyon Research Corporation
In Situ Water Isotope Analyzer for Moon Exploration Completed 5 Environment Sensors Vista Photonics, Inc.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integration into the NAS Completed 2 Cryogenic Propulsion Metron Aviation, Inc.
Inexpensive Reliable Oil-Debris Optical Sensor for Rotorcraft Health Monitoring Completed 6 Optimetrics Translume, Inc.
Expandable/Foldable Structures for Habitat Completed 4 Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts Folded Structures Company, LLC
Nonventing Thermal and Humidity Control for EVA Suits Completed 3 Portable Life Support System Creare, LLC
High Temperature Sensors Using Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanowires Completed 4 Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management HARP Engineering, LLC
Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor Array Completed 5 Environment Sensors VIP Sensors
Deep Space Navigation and Timing Architecture and Simulation Completed 6 Navigation Sensors Microcosm, Inc.
Experimental Model Based Feedback Control for Flutter Suppression and Gust Load Alleviation Completed 5 Ground and Flight Test Technologies ZONA Technology, Inc.
Advanced Nanostructured Cathode for Ultra High Specific Energy Lithium Ion Batteries Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Scientic, Inc.
Smart Adaptive Flight Effective Cue (SAFE-Cue) Completed 6 Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Systems Technology, Inc.
Software for Automated Generation of Reduced Thermal Models for Spacecraft Thermal Control Completed 5 Thermal Control Analysis CFD Research Corporation
Atmospheric Aerosol Analysis using Lightweight Mini GC Completed 6 Environment Sensors Seacoast Science, 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.