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 128 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
A feasibility study of Raman optical activity for the detection and discrimination of chiral biological compounds for planetary science instrumentation	Completed	1	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Flight Deck of the Future: Virtual Windows and e-textile iGear	Completed	—	Human-System Performance Modeling	Johnson Space Center
Game Changing Augmented Reality Training and Assistance for Maintenance Repair	Completed	4	Maintainability and Supportability	Johnson Space Center
300 microWatt Amplifier and Coupler packaging and low power Linearity investigation enabling OST/Lynx Detector Readout - LinearAmp lowPowerOST (LAmPOST)	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Estimating picometer level low-order wavefront aberrations for ultra-stable telescopes for direct imaging of exoplanets imaging using machine learning	Completed	1	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Avatar Robot for Crew Performance and Behavioral Health	Completed	3	Execution and Control	Johnson Space Center
Radiation Shield Optimizer using Genetic Algorithms	Completed	1	Protection Systems	Langley Research Center
Mars Intelligent Landing System	Completed	3	Navigation Sensors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High-solidity and supersonic tip speed rotor test for Mars rotorcraft	Completed	5	Aero Propulsion	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
GeoCAPE Airborne Simulator (GCAS)	Completed	5	Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle	Goddard Space Flight Center
Novel Techniques for Background / Foreground Rejection in Particle Instruments	Completed	4	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Thermal Mapping Airborne Simulator for Small Satellite Sensor	Completed	4	Cryogenic/Thermal Systems	Xiomas Technologies, LLC
Automation of Safety Analysis with SysML Models	Completed	3	Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis	Johnson Space Center
Earth/Mars Landing Impact Attenuation Using Foam	Completed	6	Insulation and Interfaces	Johnson Space Center
Open Science Data Repository (OSDR)	Active	9	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Ames Research Center
Mars Returned Sample Handling (MRSH)	Completed	3	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Femtosecond Laser Welding for Flight Instrument fabrication	Completed	4	Manufacturing Processes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrated Plan-Procedures-Telemetry Ops Concept and Prototype	Completed	2	Human Factors Engineering	Johnson Space Center
GeoLab Sample Handling System	Completed	—	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Johnson Space Center
Development of Lunar Vehicle and Payload Thermal Control Systems for Extreme Lunar Environments	Completed	—	Heating Systems	Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
Attitude and Orbit Navigation Scanner for sub-Nanosat Scale Platforms	Completed	3	Attitude Estimation Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
LunaNet Network Layer Services	Completed	5	Internetworking	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Propellant Loading Project	Completed	5	Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer	Kennedy Space Center
SRI CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science (SRI-CIRES)	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	—
LCRD Payload Operations	Active	7	Optical Communications	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Nested Skin Structure Approach to Increasing Aerodynamic Heating Capability of a Sounding Rocket Payload	Completed	6	Thermal Protection Systems	Wallops Flight Facility
Soft X-ray Absorbers Enabling Study of the Diffuse X-ray Background	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Night Rover Challenge	Completed	2	Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage	Marshall Space Flight Center
Development of a Rugged Seismometer for Venus Surface Deployment	Completed	1	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	Arizona State University-Tempe
Multi-Mission Multi-Messenger Observation Planning Toolkit (M4OPT)	Completed	3	Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling	Goddard Space Flight Center
RASPBERRY SI: Resource Adaptive Software Purpose-Built for Extraordinary Robotic Research Yields - Science Instruments (USC) (RASPBERRY SI)	Completed	4	Learning and Adaptation	University of South Carolina-Columbia
Monitoring of Thermal Protection Systems using Robust Self-Organizing Optical Fiber Sensing Networks	Completed	3	TPS Instrumentation	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Lunar 3rd Generation Partnership Project (Lunar 3GPP)	Active	5	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Glenn Research Center
PIXIE Precision Technology Demonstration	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Methane Lidar Transmitter Development for Space	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Electric Propulsion: Challenges and Opportunities	Completed	3	Hybrid Electric Systems	Ohio State University-Main Campus
Multi-directional Ring Particle Damper	Completed	—	—	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Core Flight Software (CFS) Maturation Towards Human Rating	Completed	—	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Development of an Integral Field Spectrograph to Advance High Contrast Imaging Technologies	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrated Ground Operations Demonstration Units (IGODU)	Completed	4	Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer	Kennedy Space Center
Enhanced In Situ Sampling Capabilities with a Compact UV Laser System	Completed	2	Static Energy Conversion	Goddard Space Flight Center
STP-H6/XCOM NavCube GPS On-Orbit Validation and Optimization	Completed	5	Revolutionary PNT Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Multi-axis Attitude Control and Energy Storage on Small Satellites	Completed	6	Control Force and Torque Actuators	Goddard Space Flight Center
Multispectral Imaging Compact Radiometer (MICR)	Completed	4	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Johns Hopkins University
Characterizing a Polarization Detector for the Goddard Miniature Coronagraph (GMC)	Completed	3	Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis	Goddard Space Flight Center
Deep Space Habitat Project (DSH)	Canceled	3	Logistics Management	Johnson Space Center
Miniaturization of Power System Electronics Housekeeping Functions (RH-PSEHK)	Completed	3	Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lander Technology: LOX/CH4 Engine	Completed	4	Cryogenic Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Antenna-Coupled TES Bolometer Arrays for CMB Polarimetry	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Compact Coronagraph Design for Heliophysics Missions	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight 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.

💻 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.