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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 100 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Compact, Low Cost APD Arrays with Built-in Optical Amplification, Phase II	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Lightweight EVA Emergency System, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Conversation Interface Domains for Rapid Programming of Complex Natural Language, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Lightweight, Wearable Metal Rubber-Textile Sensor for In-Situ Lunar Autonomous Health Monitoring, Phase II	Completed	—	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	Johnson Space Center
High-Efficiency, High-Power Laser Transmitter for Deep-Space Communication, Phase I	Completed	—	Lasers	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High-Performance, Radiation-Hard, 2-D, Near-Infrared, Avalanche Photodiode Arrays, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Self Healing Coating/Film (KSC)	Completed	3	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Kennedy Space Center
Parametric Amplifiers for Microwave Kinectic Inductance Detector (MKID) Readout	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
High-Temperature/Pressure Sampling System, Phase I	Completed	—	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Atmosphere and Regolith COllector/PrOcessor for Lander Ops (MARCO POLO) Atmospheric Processing Module (MARCO POLO APM)	Completed	4	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Kennedy Space Center
Model-Based Design Tools for Extending COTS Components To Extreme Environments, Phase II	Completed	—	Advanced Commercial-off-the-Shelf Technologies	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Environment Automated Alerts and Anomaly Analysis Assistant (SEA^5) for NASA (SEA5)	Completed	4	Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis	Goddard Space Flight Center
Non-Pyrotechnic Latch and Release System for Aerospace and Other Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Docking and Berthing Mechanisms and Fixtures	Kennedy Space Center
An Analytical Particle Biogeochemical Sensor, Phase I	Completed	—	Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Supervisory Engine for Multi-Spacecraft Formation Flying, Phase II	Completed	—	Onboard Maneuvering, Pointing, Stabilization, and Flight Control Algorithms	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1024 x 1024 Liquid Crystal Multi-Level Spatial Light Modulator, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Ames Research Center
Lightweight Ultrahigh Temperature CMC-Encased C/C Structure for Reentry and Hypersonic Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Protection Materials	Johnson Space Center
High Performance Low Mass Nanowire Enabled Heatpipe, Phase II	Completed	—	Heat Transport	Johnson Space Center
DC-Motor Drive Encompassing SiGe Asynchronous Control Electronics for Ultra-Wide (-230 °C to +130 °C) Environments, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Inflatable Solar Concentrator Using Formed-Gore Technology, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Power Replenishment Patch for Spacecraft Health Monitoring Sensors, Phase I	Completed	—	Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Model-Based Torque Control of Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Johnson Space Center
Minimum Cost Nanosatellite Launch System, Phase I	Completed	—	Launch Vehicle Propellant	Ames Research Center
Nanostructured Tungsten Rhenium Components for Propulsion Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Marshall Space Flight Center
Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations, Phase II	Completed	—	Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies	Langley Research Center
Optimal Composite Materials using NASA Resins or POSS Nanoparticle Modifications for Low Cost Fabrication of Large Composite Aerospace Structures, Phase I	Completed	—	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Langley Research Center
Space Qualified Non-Destructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring Technology, Phase I	Completed	—	Reliability and Sustainment	Langley Research Center
Formation Flying for External Occulters	Completed	3	Distributed Aperture	—
An Efficient Parallel SAT Solver Exploiting Multi-Core Environments, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	Ames Research Center
ISS Inventory Tracking System, Phase I	Completed	—	Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility	Johnson Space Center
Advanced Ionic Liquid Monopropellant for Payload Ascent Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Low-Cost, Space-Worthy, Read-Out Electronics For Transition-Edge Sensors	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Hybrid End-to-End Architecture that uses Model- and Rule-Based Inferencing, Phase II	Completed	—	High-Performance Processors	Ames Research Center
Computational Tool for Kinetic Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Multiphase Flows in Ablation, Phase I	Completed	2	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Armstrong Flight Research Center
AUTOMATED LEARNING FOR REAL-TIME EXPERT SYSTEM IN MONTORING AND CONTROL, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
Ceramic Heat Exchangers and Chemical Reactors with Micro-Scale Features for In-Situ Resource Processing, Phase I	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	Johnson Space Center
AlN Based Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Detectors, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Velocity-Control Framework for Kinematically Redundant Manipulators, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Novel Medical Diagnostic Instrument based on Real-time Breath Analysis, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
ATLAST: Optical Systems Engineering & Development	Completed	1	Observatories	Goddard Space Flight Center
Thermophotovoltaic and Thermionic Power Systems with Film Concentrators, Phase I	Completed	—	Static Energy Conversion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Cognitive Modeling for Closed-Loop Task Mitigation, Phase I	Completed	3	Reliability and Sustainment	Langley Research Center
A Data Abstraction Architecture for Spacecraft Autonomy, Phase II	Completed	—	Data Acquisition Systems	Ames Research Center
Portable Gene Expression Array Reader for NASA Applications, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
High-Frequency Low-Temperature Regenerative Heat Exchangers, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nanopowder Synthesis in a Microgravity Environment, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
In-Service Aircraft Transmission Life Modeling for Improved Flight Safety, Phase I	Completed	—	Distribution and Transmission	Glenn Research Center
600 Volt Stretched Lens Array for Solar Electric Propulsion, Phase II	Completed	—	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Glenn Research Center
Power for Vehicle Embedded MEMS Sensors, Phase I	Completed	—	Above-Surface Mobility	Langley Research Center
Building Blocks for the Rapid Development of Parallel Simulations, Phase I	Completed	—	Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development	Ames Research Center

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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.

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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.