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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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 138 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Space Flight Solid Phase Microextraction (Space Flight SPME) Completed 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Measurement of Interfacial Tension of Additive Materials using the Electrostatic Levitation System (ELS) Completed 4 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
A Micro Cylindrical Ion Trap (µ-CIT) Micro Mass Spectrometer Instrument System (µMSIS) for NASA Planetary Exploration Completed 3 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Re-Inventing 3-D Mapping Lidars Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Prototype Design for NASA SpaceCube Intelligent Multi-Purpose System for Enabling Remote Sensing, Communication, and Navigation (SpaceCube IMPS) Completed 5 Spacecraft Command and Data Handling Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Harnessing Commercially-Available Technologies to Probe Boundary-Layer Clouds (ARCS) Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Universal MEMS Seismometer Completed 2 Environment Sensors California Institute of Technology
A Radiation Hardened Compact Multi-Channel DAC (RH-DAC) Completed 7 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Melt-Probe Penetration of Dirty Ice with Clean Sampling for Life Detection Completed 3 Environment Sensors University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Hyperspectral and SWIR camera integration for UAS deployments (SAGE UAS) Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Uncooled 2D materials-based IR detector triggered by photo-induced strain Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
FY17 GRC: Magnetic Gearing - Establishing Core Competency Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Glenn Research Center
Deployable Telescopes with Free-form Optical Correction Enabling Large Aperture ESPA-Class SmallSat LIDARs Completed 3 Structures and Antennas Goddard Space Flight Center
Detector Evaluation for Lidar System to Measure Ocean Sub-Surface Temperature and Salinity Profiles Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Bringing a Gravitational Wave Imager Into Focus Completed 2 Observatories Goddard Space Flight Center
Comparative Analysis of ASIC and Dual-mode FPGA-based Digital Spectrometers Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Millimeter Wave Airborne Radar System for Earth Science Applications Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Distributed Robotic Interoperability with NASA’s core Flight System Completed 3 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Goddard Space Flight Center
Non-Mechanically Scanned Green Lidar for Bathymetry Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Towards a Structure and Function of Ecosystems (SAFE) Smallsat Constellation Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center
In-Situ Resource Utilization: Oxygen Production (ISRU) Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Glenn Research Center
A Multi-Scale, Multidisciplinary, System Approach to Radiation Effects Mitigation to Benefit Human and Robotic Missions Completed 1 Habitation Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Nanopore Sequencing for Automated Ocean World Life Detection Completed 4 Environment Sensors —
Noiseless Single Photon Counting Mid-Infrared Detector Completed 2 Quantum Communications Goddard Space Flight Center
Distributed Systems Missions: Whole System Environment (DSM WSE) Completed 4 Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center
Eureka Model Based Systems Approach for Space Architecture Definition Completed 1 Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis The Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation
Characterizing the Performance of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Fuels for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Technology Completed 3 Thermal Protection Components and Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Feasibility Study on the Recycling Method for Material Preparation for the In-Situ 3D Printing of Electronics Completed 1 In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair Alabama A & M University
High-Performance Fully Coupled Radiation-MHD Simulations of Accreting Black Hole Systems Completed 4 Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation Goddard Space Flight Center
Solid-state Laser Scanning – Enabling Space-based Imaging Lidar (SLS) Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Geolocation for The Canopy Height And Glacier Elevation (CHanGE) mission: a pathway to commercial data fusion Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Ion Mass Spectrometer for Heliospheric Missions Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
The Charge Analyzer Responsive to Local Oscillations Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Marshall Space Flight Center
An integrated, modular, near real time passive-active processing system for upcoming suborbital field campaign announcement opportunities. Completed 3 Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center
Investigation of the Optimum Cooling Channel Spacing in Nuclear Fuel for SNP Applications Completed 2 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Multi-Functional Boron Nitride Nanotube-Reinforced Titanium-Based Metal Matrix Composites For Space Vehicles And Structures With Improved Wear Resistance And Radiation Shielding Property (BNNT) Completed 2 Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
In-Situ Resource Utilization: Carbon Dioxide Collection, Separation, and Pressurization (ISRU) Completed 2 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center
Lander Technology: ALHAT capabilities including Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) (COBALT) Completed 4 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing NASA Headquarters
Next Generation Post-Flight Processing and Analysis With Data Mining Toolset Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Armstrong Flight Research Center
Radiation Tolerant Digital Processing Unit for Neutron Spectroscopy Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Advancing Digital Engineering at NASA: Cloud-Based CAE Tools and AI-Enabled Automation Completed 6 Design and Analysis Tools and Methods Goddard Space Flight Center
Evaluation of Alternative Nickel Based Superalloys for Additive Manufacturing of Liquid Rocket Engine Components Completed 3 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Black Sprayable Molecular Adsorber Coating Completed 5 Coatings Goddard Space Flight Center
Rapid Model-Based Assessment of RDRE Injector and Chamber Designs Completed 3 — —
All Metal X-band Antenna for Omni and High Gain Feed Completed 4 Radio Frequency Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrated Modeling and Error Budget Framework Development for Future Large Missions Completed 5 Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center
Adaptive Estimator and Controller for Line-of Sight Pointing Errors for Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions Completed 1 Aerodynamic Decelerators Goddard Space Flight Center
Printed Hybrid Electronics for Demonstrations on Next Generation Microshutter Array Assemblies and Sounding Rocket Launch Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Next Generation Tunable 353/530 nm Fiber Laser formaldehyde (HCHO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Adaptive Digital Pre-distorter for Higher-Order Modulation Nonlinearities and Data Jitter Completed 3 Spectrum Efficiency 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.