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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 10 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
An Optimization Process to Maximize Aircraft Nacelle Active Noise Attenuation, Phase I Completed — Sustainable Manufacturing Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Drag &Drop, Mixed-Methodology-based Lab-on-Chip Design Optimization Software, Phase II Completed — Thermal Control Analysis Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Technology Development for an AC-Multiplexed Calorimeter for ATHENA Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Low Phase Noise Universal Microwave Oscillator for Analog and Digital Devices, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advancing the Next Generation of UV Instrumentation to Flight Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
A Solid Expellant Plasma Source/Contactor for Electrodynamic Tethers, Phase I Completed — Solids Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High-Power Pump Laser for Ozone Lidar, Phase I Completed — Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Compact Terahertz Heterodyne Receivers, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Unraveling the history of the Milky Way through chemical tagging Completed — Attitude Estimation Sensors — 2018-10-10 —
Interface Everywhere: Further Development of a Gesture and Voice Commanding Interface Completed 3 Architecture and Design of Software systems Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Noise High-Resolution Multiplexer Electronics for Deformable Mirrors, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
High Efficiency S-Band 20 Watt Amplifier Completed 4 Power Efficiency Wallops Flight Facility 2018-10-10 —
Optical Components for Space Based Solar Plant Lighting System, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Better Pressure Vessel Impact Resistance Utilizing Filament Wound Hybrid Fibers., Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Charlotte: Scientific Modeling and Simulation Under the Software as a Service Paradigm, Phase I Completed — Collaborative Science and Engineering Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High temperature superconductor bolometers for spectral imaging of cold planetary objects Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Flash 3D Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing Sensor Hardening, Phase I Completed — Relative Navigation Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
An Adaptive Chemistry Approach to Modeling Emissions Performance of Gas Turbine Combustors, Phase II Completed — Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
SpaceCube Core Software Completed 7 High-Performance Processors Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Broadband Active Segmented Aperture and Radial Shear Nulling (VNC) Completed — Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Nanoscale Cathode Materials for High Capacity Li Ion Batteries, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Measurement/Model of Effects of Grazing Flow on Resonator Impedance, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Integration of Garnets and Magnets for Waveguide Isolators, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Visual Interfaces for Parallel Simulations (VIPS), Phase I Completed — Collaborative Science and Engineering Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Cost, Polymer-Derived Interface Coatings for CMC Applications, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Commercial Framework for Bi-Level Integrated System Synthesis, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Primary Endmember Analysis for Compression of Hypercubes, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
High Pressure Micro-Sampling System for In Situ Deep Subsurface Measurements, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
FRET Aptamer-Based Glucose Sensor for the Rotating Space BioReactor, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Tethered Artificial Gravity Spacecraft (TAGS), Phase I Completed — Electromagnetic Tethers Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Lightweight, High Conductivity Metal Matrix Composite, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High-speed Pulsed Raman (HiPuR) for Identification of Minerals and Organics Completed — Lasers — 2018-10-10 —
Distributed Operations Software for Wireless Handheld Computers, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Seeking Signs of Life in an Ancient Martian Hot Spring. Completed — Sample Handling — 2018-10-10 —
Twenty-First Century Spectroscopic Data for Determinations of Interstellar Ice Abundances Completed — Engine Icing — 2018-10-10 —
Real-time Aeroelastic Measurement System (RAMS) for in-Flight Flutter Testing, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Smart Thin Film NiTi Based Membranes for Space Based Deployables, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Characterization of the Time Projection X-ray Polarimeters for GEMS and XACT Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
A pixelated Liquid Crystal etalon with application to spectral imaging, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Gyroplane Development and Demonstration using a Unique Bearingless Rotor System, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Current Superconducting Magnets Operating at up to 10K, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Stacked Wafer Gradient Index Silicon Optics with Integral Antireflection Layers Completed — Mirror Systems — 2018-10-10 —
Integration of Unmanned Air Vehicles with the National Airspace System, Phase I Completed — Architectures and Infrastructure Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Co-Generation of High Purity Hydrogen and Electric Power, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Diamond-Based Sub Millimeter Backward Wave Oscillator, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Ultra-compact high power micro-chip lasers, Phase I Completed — Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Beamed Energy Driven MHD Chemical Rocket Motor for Advanced Space Propulsion, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Software to Enable Modeling & Simulation as a Service (M&SaaS) Completed 6 Cyber Infrastructure NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
High Temperature Energy Storage for In Situ Planetary Atmospheric Measurement Technologies, Phase II Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Annular Hybrid Rocket Motor, Phase I Completed — Hybrids Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
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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.