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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 13 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
An Ozone DIAL Transmitter Module for Airborne Applications, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Broad-bandwidth Metamaterial Antireflection Coatings for Sub-Millimeter Astronomy and CMB Foreground Removal Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Improved Transition-edge Sensors Project Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Multi-Axial Damage Index and Accumulation Model for Predicting Fatigue Life of CMC Materials, Phase I Completed — Computational Materials Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
An On-Chip Nano-Plasmonics Based Urine Protein Assay Cartridge, Phase II Completed — Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Hydrogen-Rich, Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites for Radiation Shielding, Phase II Completed — Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Near Earth Application of Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking in Operational Networks Completed 5 Disruption Tolerant Networking Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Crucial Component Damage Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation, Phase I Completed — Fault Response Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Non Intrrusive, On-line, Simultaneous Multi-Species Impurity Monitor in Hydrogen, Phase II Completed — Commodity Recovery Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Highly Reliable LOX Pump for Vehicle Loading Operations, Phase II Completed — Robot Navigation and Path Planning Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Electrochemical Ethylene Sensor for Monitoring Low Levels in Plant Environments, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Advancement of the Space Exploration Synthetic Aperture Radar (SESAR) Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultra-small, low-cost Earth horizon sensor, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Citric Acid Alternative to Nitric Acid Passivation Completed 5 Coatings Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Novel Force Sensor for Robotics, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Enabling Technologies for Fabrication of Large Area Flexible Antennas, Phase I Completed — Thermal Control Analysis Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Commercial GIS extension for visualization of large unstructured geospatial data, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
SiC Avalanche Photodiodes and Arrays, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Holographic Image Plane Projection Integral 3D Display, Phase I Completed — Behavioral Health and Performance Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Cost Lightweight Attitude-Command Augmentation System for Civil Helicopters, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
ALD Sapphire Coating for Large Area Soft X-ray Mirrors Completed 3 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
An Ultra-Narrow Tunable Optical Bandpass Filter, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Deep UV Semiconductor Sources for Advanced Planetary Science Instruments, Phase II Completed 5 Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Novel Polyethers Doped with Nanoscale Insulating oxides for Lithium Battery Elec, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Maneuvering Rotorcraft Aeromechanics, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Data Reduction Techniques for Real-time Fault Detection and Diagnosis, and Multiple Fault Inference with Imperfect Tests, Phase II Completed — Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Airborne Electromagnetic Sounding of the Interiors of Venus, Mars, and Titan Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors — 2018-10-10 —
NextGen Stress & Fracture for Lightweight Structures Completed 4 Design and Analysis Tools and Methods Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
In-Situ Cohesion Quantification and Sample Collection Through Electrostatic Lofting Completed 2 Environment Sensors University of Maryland-College Park 2018-10-10 —
Carbon Nanotube Based Electric Propulsion Thruster with Low Power Consumption, Phase II Completed — Real-Time Software Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A compact high-resolution grating spectrograph for spaceborne infrared astronomy Completed 3 Public Cloud Supercomputers — 2018-10-10 —
Coatings for Foil Seals/Foil Bearings for Gas Turbine Engines, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Impact Energy Absorbing Matrix Completed 2 Shock and Impact Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A High-Performance Deformable Mirror with Integrated Driver ASIC for Space Based Active Optics Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Deployable Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Space Synthetic Biology (SSB) Completed 4 Logistics Management Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Portable Thermal Linescan Inspection System, Phase I Completed — Heat Transport Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Identification of optimal ablation wavelength and pulse-durations for improved in-situ dating Completed 1 Lasers Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio 2018-10-10 —
Conformal Space Suit Antenna Development for Enhanced EVA Communications and Wearable Computer Applications, Phase II Completed — Informatics and Decision Support Systems Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Sputter-Resistant Materials for Electric Propulsion, Phase I Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
High Interactivity Visualization Software for Large Computational Data Sets, Phase I Completed — Semantic Technologies Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Stress Iridium Coatings for Thin-Shell X-Ray Telescopes, Phase I Completed 4 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Innovative Deep Throttling, High Performance Injector Concept, Phase I Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
355nm Photon-Recycled Fringe Imager for HSRL, Phase I Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
On-demand, Controller-based Simulation for Human-Automation Training, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Aircraft Parachute Recovery System, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Capacity Anodes for Advanced Lithium Ion Batteries, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Wafer-Based Microfluidic System for Lab-On-a-Chip Technologies, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Batch Fabricated Multifunctional Thermal Sensors for high Temperature Propulsion Testing Environments Completed 4 Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Miniature Sample Collection and Delivery System using Gas-Entrained Powder Transport, Phase I Completed — Sample Handling 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.