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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 350 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
A miniaturized UV/VIS/IR hyperspectral radiometer for autonomous airborne and underwater imaging spectroscopy of coastal and oceanic environments Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) 2026-02-13 —
In Situ Laser Diagnostics for Arc-Jet Facilities Completed 6 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies Los Gatos Research 2026-02-13 —
A Compact Safe Cold-Start (CS2) System for Scramjets using Dilute Triethylaluminum Fuel Mixtures Completed 5 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle ACENT Laboratories LLC 2026-02-13 —
Narrow Wavelength, Frequency Modulated Source at 1.5¿ Wavelength Completed 6 Electronics Princeton Optronics, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Power Room Temperature Terahertz Local Oscillator Completed 4 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies Desert Beam Technologies, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Low Power 1-Bit ADC Array with Serial Output Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Pacific Microchip Corporation 2026-02-13 —
High-Efficiency, High-Power Laser Transmitter for Deep-Space Communication Completed — Lasers Vega Wave Systems, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Energy Density, High Power Density, High Cycle Life Flywheel Energy Storage Systems Completed 4 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage Balcones Technologies, LLC 2026-02-13 —
ATC Operations Analysis via Automatic Recognition of Clearances Completed 6 Traffic Management Concepts Mosaic ATM, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Accelerated Scientific InSAR Processing Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding Neva Ridge Technologies, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Minimally Machined HoneySiC Mirrors for Low Areal Cost and Density Completed 3 Mirror Systems Trex Enterprises Corporation 2026-02-13 —
SPHERES/Universal ISS Battery Charging Station Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge 2026-02-13 —
Fusion of Built in Test (BIT) Technologies with Embeddable Fault Tolerant Techniques for Power System and Drives in Space Exploration Completed 4 Navigation Sensors Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 2026-02-13 —
HybridSpectral Radiometer Systems to Support Ocean Color Cal/Val Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Biospherical Instruments, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Input Voltage Hall Thruster Discharge Converter Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Space Electronics Operating at High Temperatures and Radiation Levels Completed 7 Space Radiation Analysis and Modeling QorTek, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Precise Thrust Actuation by a Micro RF Ion Engine Completed — Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Lightweight IMM Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Flexible Blanket Assembly Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Deployable Space Systems, Inc 2026-02-13 —
High Efficiency, High Output Plastic Melt Waste Compactor (HEHO-PMWC) Completed 3 Waste Management ORBITEC 2026-02-13 —
Low-Power Wideband Digital Spectrometer for Planetary Science Completed 2 Data Acquisition Systems HYPRES, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Micro tube heat exchangers for Space Completed 7 Heat Transport Mezzo Technologies 2026-02-13 —
Titan Montgolfiere Terrestrial Test Bed Completed 5 Atmosphere Characterization Near Space Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Design Support and Analysis Tool for Pyrotechnically Actuated Valves Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Combustion Research and Flow Technology 2026-02-13 —
Innovative Ground Habitats for Lunar Operational Outpost (IGLOO) Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators NextGen Aeronautics, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Novel Lithium Ion High Energy Battery Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Farasis Energy, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Piezoelectric Structural Microensor Technology for Extreme Environments (> 1800 F) Completed — Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management TRS Ceramics, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Ground Processing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques Completed 6 Mission Planning Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Multilayer Polymeric Shielding to Protect Humans from Galactic Cosmic Radiation Completed 5 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines International Scientific Technologies, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
C-SiC Honeycomb for Advanced Flight Structures Completed 4 Insulation and Interfaces Ultracor 2026-02-13 —
Microfabricated Millimeter-Wave Antenna Arrays Completed 6 Structures and Antennas Nuvotronics, Inc 2026-02-13 —
Nitrous Oxide Ethane Ethylene Engine Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Pioneer Astronautics 2026-02-13 —
Compact High-Performance Laser Gyro Completed 4 Navigation Sensors MagiQ Technologies, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Novel Microfluidic Instrument for Spacecraft Environmental Monitoring Completed 6 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors HJ Science & Technology, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Microwave Radiometer for Aviation Safety Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology 2026-02-13 —
CO2 Removal from Mars EMU Completed 5 Atmosphere Revitalization TDA Research, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Performance Miniature Bandpass Filters Completed 5 Attitude Estimation Sensors LW Microsystem, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Performing PFPE Nanofluid Lubricants Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
A Miniaturized Sensor for Microbial Monitoring of Spacecraft Water Environment Completed 3 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors CFD Research Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Compact, Airborne Multispecies Sensor Completed 4 Lasers Novawave Technologies 2026-02-13 —
Quantitative kHz to MHz Frame Rate Flow Diagnostics for Aerodynamic Ground Test Facilities Completed 3 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Cloud Liquid Water Content Sensor for Radiosondes Completed 6 Engine Icing Anasphere, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Coherent Optical Transceiver using Circular Polarization-Based Balanced Mixing Completed 3 Detector Development Meadowlark Optics Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Serious Games for Team Training Completed 2 Behavioral Health and Performance Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Integrated Visualization Environment for Science Mission Modeling Completed 6 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Phoenix Integration 2026-02-13 —
Fabrication Process and Electronics Development for Scaling Segmented MEMS DMs Completed 4 Mirror Systems Iris AO, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Highly Durable Catalysts for Ignition of Advanced Monopropellants Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Eltron Research & Development, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Manufacture of Novel Cryogenic Thermal Protection Materials Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Advanced Materials Technology, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Skin Friction and Pressure Measurements in Supersonic Inlets Completed 6 Aerodynamics Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
High Efficiency Microchannel Sabatier Reactor System for In Situ Resource Utilization Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables UMPQUA Research Company 2026-02-13 —
Cryocooler With Cold Compressor for Deep Space Applications Completed 4 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Madison CryoGroup, LLC 2026-02-13 —
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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.