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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 362 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Inflatable Antennas for CubeSats Communication and Science in Deep Space, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
On Sky Observation of Delta doped CCDs Project Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Active Millimeter and Submillimeter Sensing Applications Project Completed 1 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
PEAC: A Power-Efficient Adaptive Computing Technology for Enabling Swarm of Small Spacecraft and Deployable Mini-Payloads Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Novel Methodology for Control and Stabilization of Spacecraft with Captured Asteroid, Year 1 Completed 6 Robot Control for Vehicle Capture and Berthing Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
High-Frequency Antenna Arrays and Coupling Structures Project Completed 2 Structures and Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Rapid Advanced Heliocentric Mission Design for L3, L4, L5, NEO Rendezvous, Capture, Sample Return, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Hypothesis-Driven Microexplorers, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Solid-State Magnetometer for Vectorized Field Sensing in Harsh Planetary Environments Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
MEMS Shutter for Spectrometer Calibration Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Ultra-Low Power Extreme Environment Capable Avionics System-on-a-Chip Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Inflatable Antennas for CubeSats Communication and Science in Deep Space, Year 1 Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Replicating Active Thin Mirrors (JPL) Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
MHz pulsed microchip lasers for planetary Raman spectrometers Completed 7 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Nonlinear Optical Terahertz Technology Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Micro Mercury Ion Clock (MMIC) Project Completed 2 Timekeeping and Time Distribution Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Resilient Space Systems Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Distributed Pyro Initiation System Project Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Demonstration of Autonomous Navigation for Deep Space CubeSat Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
All-Metal Dual-Polarized W-band Patch Element for Phased Array Antenna Applications, Year 2 Completed 2 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Rapid Advanced Heliocentric Mission Design for L3, L4, L5, NEO Rendezvous, Capture, Sample Return, Year 3 Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Electronics Modernization Project Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Novel Highly Efficient Compact Rotary-Hammering Planetary Sampler Actuated by a Single Piezoelectric Actuator Project Completed 3 Mechanical Drive Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Cubesat Constellations for Heliophysics Project Completed 2 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
High Temperature Superconductor Resonator Detectors, Year 1 Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
High Operational Temperature MWIR detectors with optical concentrators, Year 1 Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Frequency Agile Optical Communications Laser Completed 7 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 3 Completed 5 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
In-Space Hybrid Energy Storage System Demonstration on CSUNSat1 Completed 9 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Nanofabricated Optomechanical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators, Year 1 Completed 2 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Free Form Mirrors for Ultra Compact High Speed Optical Systems Project Completed 5 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Fabrication Process Development for Light Deformable Mirrors, Year 1 Completed 2 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Printed Spacecraft Workshop Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Low Power Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers from 1-300GHz Project Completed 2 Electronics Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Four Thruster Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion (MEP) Cubesat Board Demonstration, Year 2 Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Subnanosecond scintillation detector for high energy cosmic rays Project Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
T6 Ion Thruster Technology Development Project Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 4 Completed 7 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Mobile Platform Development for SSC Propulsion Test Operations, Year 1 Completed 4 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Hot Hydrogen Heat Source Development Project Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Novel Data Acquisition and controls System (DACS) Demonstration Project Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Self-Contained Portable Data Acquisition/Control System Unit for Hydrogen Environments Project Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
High Power Density, Lightweight Thermoelectric Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting Completed 3 Dynamic Energy Conversion Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Cryogenic Acoustic Suppression Testing Project Completed 3 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Innovation Center Smart Light for Enhancing Creativity Project Completed 6 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Oxygen Containment System Options for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Testing Project Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Optical Interferometry with Flexible Coherent Fiber Bundle for Measuring Deposits or Contamination on Surfaces and Inside Tubes Project Completed 4 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Subscale Design of an NTP Engine Exhaust Containment System Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Development of CFD Approaches for Modeling Advanced Concepts of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Test Facilities Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
An Intelligent Strain Gauge with Debond Detection and Temperature Compensation Completed 6 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
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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.