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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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13,351 projects harvested so far — page 1 of 268.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Laser Source for Atomic Gravity Wave Detector Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Liquid Crystal Elastomer Membranes and the Wrinkling Instability Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials California Institute of Technology
High Power Transmitter Technologies for Ultra Wideband Multi-Function RF Operation Completed 3 Innovative RF Technologies Ohio State University-Main Campus
Reusable Feedstock Materials Using Polymer-Coated Microparticles for In-Space Manufacturing Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Ames Research Center
Polaris Project: Tall Lunar Tower (TLT) Completed 4 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Langley Research Center
Patterned Magnetic Hold/Release Phase 2.5 Completed 4 Flight Vehicle Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
A High dV Miniature Ion Thruster for SmallSat Primary Propulsion Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Southern California
Advancement of Planetary Protection to Complete Biologic Inventory via Cryo-Electron Microscopy (EM) Completed 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Improving the Fidelity of General Flexible Multibody Dynamic Simulations Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Texas A & M University-College Station
X-ray Optics for Wide Field-of-View X-ray Imaging Completed 5 Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Incoherent Laser Thomson Scattering Experiments for Predictive Hall Thruster Modeling Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Metallic Environmentally Resistant Coating Rapid Innovation Initiative (MERCRII) Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Marshall Space Flight Center
Integrated Submillimeter‐Wave InP HBT Electronics for Atmospheric Radiometry Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves University of Colorado Boulder
SPEAR Probe - An Ultra Lightweight Nuclear Electric Propulsion Probe for Deep Space Exploration Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Howe Industries, LLC
Molecular simulation aided design of textured cooling loops minimizing Kapitza resistance for high power density space applications Completed 3 Heat Transport California Institute of Technology
Hydrogen Plasma-Enhanced Reduction for ISRU of Oxygen Natives (HYPERION) Active 2 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Machine Learning to Improve Friction Stir Welding Quality Completed 3 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Silicon Carbide Power Components for NASA Lunar Surface Applications Completed 5 Distribution and Transmission Vanderbilt University
Developing a multi-scale understanding of the kinetics of dehydration and rehydration in a model cellular food system Completed 3 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Harvard University
PLANET: Planner-in-the-Loop Assistant for Novelty Extraction and Targeting Completed 3 Mission Planning and Scheduling Arizona State University-Tempe
Spacecraft Architecture Aide (SPAIDE) Completed 4 Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Marshall Space Flight Center
Passively-Coded Embedded Wideband Microwave Sensors for Material Characterization and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Completed 3 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Iowa State University
Towards Validated, Accurate, & Predictive Simulations of High-Speed Particle-Laden Flows, Year 1 Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Prandtl Propeller: Design Process, Verification and Testing, Year 3 Completed 4 Aerodynamics Armstrong Flight Research Center
Micro-cathode Arc Thruster PhoneSat Experiment Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Ames Research Center
Micro-scale modeling of ablative thermal protection systems during atmospheric entry Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Stanford University
ISRU-based 3D printed solid Polymer electrolyte for Na-ion batteries (ISPOLYTE) Completed 3 Energy Storage Marshall Space Flight Center
Multiscale Modeling to Enable Physics-Based Simulations of Plume-Surface Interactions with Quantified Uncertainty Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Silent, Solid-State Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles Completed 3 All-Electric Propulsion Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration (APPLE) Completed 3 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power The Aerospace Corporation
Novel Aerogel-Based Catalysts for Spacecraft Life Support Application Completed 5 — Marshall Space Flight Center
SonicSonde: Instrumentation for a Tethered Atmospheric Sensor Suite System, Year 2 (SonicSonde) Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Novel Metrology Concept for High Resolution Grazing Incidence Optics Completed 6 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Modular Joints for Soft Robots Completed 3 Dexterous Manipulation University of California-San Diego
Investigation of Frequency Comb Generator as Potential Millimeter Wave Beacon Source for Atmospheric Propagation Studies Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
High Temperature InGaN-based Solar Cells Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Arizona State University-Tempe
Metamorphic III-V on Si multi-junction solar cells Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
High-Fidelity Modeling of High-Energy Density Plasma Systems for Fusion Propulsion Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stanford University
Development of High-Performance Green Hypergolic Propellants for Small Spacecraft In-Space Propulsion Systems Completed 2 Cryogenic Propulsion Purdue University-Main Campus
Gandalf’s Staff Walking Stick for Lunar EVA Support and Surface Science Completed 4 Innovative Antennas Johnson Space Center
Rapid PetrifilmTM Plates (RPPs) for Reducing Planetary Protection Assay Time and Cost, Year 1 Completed — Planetary Protection Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Evaluation of SPE and GCR Radiation Effects in Space Suit, Inflatable, and Habitable Composite Materials, Year 3 Completed 7 — Johnson Space Center
Next Generation Integrated Coherent Sources from Visible to Mid-Infrared Using Nanophotonic Lithium Niobate Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology
Scalable Autonomously Configured Integrated DAQ/Control System, Year 1 Completed — Test Instruments and Sensors Stennis Space Center
Localized radiation-induced damage mitigation in metal-nanomaterial composites with high aspect ratio pathways Completed 2 Materials for Extreme Environments University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Information Fusion and Data Analytics for Human Lunar Exploration, Year 1 Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Johnson Space Center
Development of a methodology for characterizing the tool/part interface in friction stir welding for improvement of predictive modeling in aluminum alloys Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Brigham Young University-Provo
Secondary Electron Suppression with Carbonized Aerogels Completed 4 — Glenn Research Center
Characterization of Lunar Polar Volatiles for Curation and ISRU, Year 2 Completed — Planetary Protection Johnson Space Center
Heat Transfer Mechanisms for Flow Boiling in Microgravity using Fluorescing Materials as Temperature Sensors Completed 3 Measurement and Control University of Maryland-College Park
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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.