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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 11 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Advanced Flow Analyses in Complex Feed Systems, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Reclamation of Space Mission Water, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High Framing Rate Imaging of Velocity and Minor Species Concentrations, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High-Pressure Oxygen Concentrator, Phase II Completed — Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Micromechanical Models for Composite NDE and Diagnostics, Phase II Completed 5 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Magnetic Refrigerator for Cooling at 2 K, Phase II Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Chronic Telemetric Biofluid Flow Monitoring Device, Phase I Completed — Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Radiation Resistant, Improved Emissivity Solar Cell System using PBO Film, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Ka-Band PAA for Satellite Telemetry System for RLVs & Aircraft, Phase II Completed — Innovative Antennas Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High Power Platform for the Stretched Lens Array, Phase II Completed — Static Energy Conversion Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Asteroid Icy Regolith Excavation and Volatile Capture Completed 3 Destination Resource Exploration Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
An In-situ, Biogeochemical Sensor using Excitation-Emission Matrix Fluorometry, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultrasensitive Atmospheric Analyzer for Miniature UAVs, Phase I Completed — Safe All-Vehicle Access Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Lunar Regolith Stabilization for Excavation, Phase I Completed — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Integrated Device to Sample and Identify Surface Microorganisms, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Water Reclamation using Spray Drying, Phase I Completed — Water Recovery and Management Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Enabling Cluster Based Architecture for Virtual Platforms and Sensor Webs, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Radiation Resistant, Improved Emissivity Solar Cell System using PBO Film, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Technology Advancement in Support of NASAs Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) System Power Processing Unit (NEXT PPU) Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Blocking Filters with Enhanced Throughput for X-Ray Microcalorimetry, Phase II Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Front Turbine Engine Concept, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Optical Sensor for Detection of Fatigue Damage Precursors, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Topology Control Algorithms for Spacecraft Formation Flying Networks Under Connectivity and Time-Delay Constraints, Phase I Completed 2 Onboard Maneuvering, Pointing, Stabilization, and Flight Control Algorithms Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Bit Transparent Ternary SERDES for Intra-System Data Transfer, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for High Data Rate Receivers, Phase I Completed — Knowledge and Model Building Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
PISCES: An Integral Field Spectrograph to Advance High Contrast Imaging Technologies Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Tradespace Analysis Tool for Designing Earth Science Distributed Missions Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
Collaborative Workbench to Accelerate Science Algorithm Development (CWB) Completed 2 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
The Small Bodies / Icy Moon Penetrator Organic Analyzer (SB/IM-POA): Early TRL Development of a Robust Microfluidic Instrument for Raman, UV-Vis and Fluorescence Spectroscopy on Kinetic Penetrator Missions Completed — Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment — 2018-10-10 —
Reusable Handheld Electrolytes and Lab Technology for Humans (rHEALTH Sensor), Phase I Completed — Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Soft Magnetic Nanocomposites for High-Frequency Power Applications, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Computer Controlled Optical Surfacing of Bare Beryllium Aspheric Optics, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
The Constant Force Resistive Exercise Unit (CFREU) for Multi-Functional Exercise, Phase II Completed — Prevention and Countermeasures Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultrahigh Volumetric Energy Density PEM Fuel Cells, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Rational Engineering of Carbon Nanotube Surfaces, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Thermal Pyrolytic Graphite Enhanced Components, Phase I Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Two Phase Flow Tools for Solid Motors with Dynamic Burning Surface Recession, Phase I Completed — Solids Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Complementary Bayesian and mAchine Learning Toolbox (CoBALT) Completed 2 Event and Trend Identification Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Commercial GIS extension for visualization of large unstructured geospatial data, Phase II Completed — Static Energy Conversion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Use of Capillary Discharge Non Thermal Plasma for Sterilization of Material, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Maneuvering Rotorcraft Aeromechanics, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Low Temperature Dehydration and Sterilization of Wet Wastes, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Transdermal Delivery System for Therapeutic Molecules, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Integrated Power, Avionics, and Software (IPAS) Flexible Systems Integration Completed 6 Control Force and Torque Actuators Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Aircraft Parachute Recovery System, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Phase Change cell demonstration onboard the International Space Station in support of the CLARREO Mission Completed 5 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
Ultrahigh Throughput Flow Cytometer for Cell and Molecular Analysis in uG, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Accurate TTV Characterization of Kepler Planetary Systems, and the Implications for Their Dynamics and Formation Completed — Sample Handling — 2018-10-10 —
Automated, Universal Software for Cloud and Cloud Shadow Detection in RS Data, Phase I Completed — Public Cloud Supercomputers Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
A High Performance, Low Mass, XPS for Biosignature Detection, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 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.