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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 355 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
MMOD-IMLI: Integrated Thermal Insulation and Micrometeoroid/Orbital Debris Protection Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Quest Thermal Group 2026-02-13 —
Tunable Single Frequency 2.054 Micron Fiber Laser Using New Ho-Doped Fiber Completed 4 Lasers AdValue Photonics, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Development of a Novel, Reactive Extrusion Process for Continuous Production of Long, Pure Carbon Nanotubes for Application in Lightweight Composite Materials Completed 3 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Nanomatronix, LLC 2026-02-13 —
A 10kWatt 36GHz Solid-State Power Amplifier using GaN-on-Diamond Completed 8 Innovative RF Technologies Group4 Labs, LLC 2026-02-13 —
FINE-FILAMENT MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE FOR TURBOELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Hyper Tech Research, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Adaptive Drainage Slots for Acoustic Noise Attenuation Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Reliable Direct Bond Copper Ceramic Packages for High Temperature Power Electronics Completed 6 Electronics Sienna Technologies, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
SiC Matrix Composites for High Temperature Hypersonic Vehicle Applications Completed 4 Advanced Electronic Parts Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc 2026-02-13 —
Long Life, High Energy Cell Development Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Physical Sciences, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Longwave Imaging for Astronomical Applications Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes QmagiQ, LLC 2026-02-13 —
High Performance Negative Feedback Near Infrared Single Photon Counting Detectors & Arrays Completed 7 Detector Development Amplification Technologies, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
X-Band GaN Power Amplifiers for Long Range Space RF Telecommunications Completed 5 Power Efficiency Nitronex Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly (PETA) Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Espace, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Lightweight High Efficiency Electric Motors and Actuators for Low Temperature Mobility and Robotics Applications Completed 4 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices QM Power, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Plasma Sensor for High Bandwidth Mass-Flow Measurements at High Mach Numbers with RF Link Completed 6 Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Spectral Energies, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Lattice Regenerative Cooling Methods (LRCM) Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion ORBITEC 2026-02-13 —
Low-Noise Analog APDs with Impact Ionization Engineering and Negative Feedback Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Princeton Lightwave, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Flight Deck I-Glasses Completed 3 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Microvision, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Uncertainty Quantification for Production Navier-Stokes Solvers Completed 5 Uncertainty Quantification and Nondeterministic Simulation Methods Combustion Research and Flow Technology 2026-02-13 —
Advanced Capabilities Medical Suction Device Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis UMPQUA Research Company 2026-02-13 —
The First Monolithic Silicon Carbide Active Pixel Sensor Array for Solar Blind UV Detection Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes United Silicon Carbide, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
A Dropsonde Glider with Adaptive Trajectory Planning Completed 6 Trajectory Design and Analysis Barron Associates, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Formal Verification of Software Completed 4 V&V of Software systems Aries Design Automation, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Aluminum-Lithium Alloy 2050 for Reduced-Weight, Increased-Stiffness Space Structures Completed 3 Special Materials Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. 2026-02-13 —
Propellant Flow Actuated Piezoelectric Rocket Engine Igniter Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Innovative Engineering Solutions 2026-02-13 —
Manufacturing of Nanocomposite Carbon Fibers and Composite Cylinders Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Wright Materials Research Co. 2026-02-13 —
Reactive Rendezvous and Docking Sequencer Completed 7 Rendezvous and Docking Algorithms Blue Sun Enterprise, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Cold Weather Technology Development for Low Altitude Ultra-Long Endurance Applications Completed 6 Mission Planning Vanilla Aircraft, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Plasma Catalytic Extraction of Oxygen from the Martian Atmosphere Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables UMPQUA Research Company 2026-02-13 —
Deep Space Navigation and Timing Architecture and Simulation Completed 3 Navigation Sensors Microcosm, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Projection/Reflection Heads-up Display Completed 4 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Physical Optics Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Surface-Borne Time-of-Reception Measurements (STORM) Completed 4 Test, Operations, and Systems Safety Invocon, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Silicon Carbide Lightweight Optics With Hybrid Skins for Large Cryo Telescopes Completed 5 Mirror Systems Optical Physics Company 2026-02-13 —
Develop High Efficiency Liquid-Feed PEM Electrolyzer Based on Integrated Flow Field (IFF) Structure Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables ElectroChem, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
50 mJ Monolithic 2 um Pulsed Fiber Laser Transmitter in 200 ns Regime with Transform-Limited Linewidth Based on Highly Tm-Doped Germanate Fibers Completed 4 Lasers NP Photonics, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Small Space Platform Enhanced Internet Protocol Stack Device Completed 6 Flight and Ground Systems Broadata Communications, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI) Completed 9 Atmosphere Characterization Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) Completed 7 Timekeeping and Time Distribution Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-13 —
Human Exploration Telerobotics (HET) Completed 7 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Evolvable Cryogenics (eCryo) Completed 6 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Glenn Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Composites for Exploration Upper Stage (CEUS) Completed 6 Manufacturing Processes Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
Integrated Solar Array and Reflectarray Antenna (ISARA) Completed 7 Innovative Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-13 —
PhoneSat Completed 7 Avionics Component Technologies Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Nanosatellite Payload Reentry and Recovery Completed 4 Orbital Debris Mitigation Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Autonomous Assembly of Structures in Space Completed 3 Microgravity Construction and Assembly University of Colorado Boulder 2026-02-13 —
Automatic Parallelization of Serial Programs for NASA Space‐Based Computing Systems Completed 3 Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset University of Maryland-College Park 2026-02-13 —
Implementation and Assessment of a Time-Accurate Aeroelastic Model for Analysis of Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators Completed 3 Aerodynamic Decelerators Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 2026-02-13 —
Development of Magnetic-Plasmonic Nanoparticle Sensors for the Apprehension, Removal and Treatment (ART) of Microbial Contamination in Water Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Case Western Reserve University 2026-02-13 —
Human-In-The-Loop Control of a Bipedal Robot with Variable Levels of Autonomy Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Rice University 2026-02-13 —
Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments Mission Design Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 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.