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.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 140 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
High-Resolution Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer for Outer Planetary Missions (PlanTIR)	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
The NASA Technology Taxonomy Recommender System (T-Rex)	Completed	9	Intelligent Data Understanding	ARES Corporation
Deep Space Quantum Link (DSQL)	Completed	2	Quantum Communications	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Material Characterization and Certification of Additively Manufactured Metal for Flight Hardware Applications	Completed	4	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Wallops Flight Facility
Compact Ka-band Feed Design Validation and Shaped Reflector Design for ISS and Ka-band RF Comm Demonstration for future Earth Observing Missions	Completed	4	Innovative Antennas	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Novel Receiver for Coherent Communications	Completed	3	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Deep Learning for Communication Limited Spacecraft (CLDL)	Completed	4	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Environmental Effects on Flight Experiment Materials	Completed	7	Thermal Protection Materials	Marshall Space Flight Center
Sodium Lidar Laser Transmitter TRL Advancement	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Combined artificial star, temperature lidar and magnetometer	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Design of the Goddard Tethered-Balloon Observation Sensor System (GT-BOSS) for Boundary Layer Measurements	Completed	4	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Robust and Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility (AVIATE)	Completed	3	Safe All-Vehicle Access	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
First Flight for a prototype non high voltage electron spectrometer for lower atmosphere studies	Completed	5	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Weather Intelligent Navigation Data and Models for Aviation Planning (WINDMAP)	Completed	4	Weather and Environment	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus
Multiband RF Receiver Front End for Data Relay Ka-band uplinks and crosslinks	Completed	4	Spectrum Efficiency	Goddard Space Flight Center
Quantifying bimetallic joints formed using direct metal deposition processes to improve the reliability and increase the technical readiness level for an additive manufactured rocket engine component	Completed	2	Grappling Technologies	University of Alabama in Huntsville
Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge II Sub-Project (ACTE II)	Completed	6	Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Sublimation Rates and Sample Stability for In Situ Ocean Worlds Measurements	Completed	6	Sample Handling	Goddard Space Flight Center
High Temperature Electronics	Completed	5	Environment Sensors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Improved Estimate of Sample Mass by Piezo Impedance Sensing	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Tank Health Monitoring	Completed	6	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Carthage College
Next Generation Laser for Vegetation Canopy and Cryosphere Altimetry Missions	Completed	5	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Verification of Molecular Contamination Transport Model	Completed	4	Modeling	Goddard Space Flight Center
Next-generation Goddard multi-regime GNSS receiver	Completed	4	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
BioSentinel	Completed	6	Long-Duration Health	Ames Research Center
Opening the Door to New Science -- Enabling High Speed (40Mbps) Telemetry for Sounding Rocket Experiments	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
CubeSat Capabilities for Space Science Missions	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
FY18-C2 GRC: Green Propulsion Catalyst Test Article	Canceled	4	Electrostatic Propulsion	Glenn Research Center
ProSECT: Programmable Scanning Experiment for Cloud Tomography	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Thermal Imaging Instrument with Uncooled Detectors	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops 6U Deployer Improvements	Completed	5	Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces	Goddard Space Flight Center
In-Situ Resource Utilization: Methane Fuel Production (ISRU)	Completed	4	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Glenn Research Center
Schematic Window Methodology Project	Completed	4	Mission Planning	Goddard Space Flight Center
Application of Machine Learning to Planetary Spectroscopy	Completed	6	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
WASP - Wallops Arc Second Pointer (WASP)	Completed	7	Detectors and Focal Planes	Wallops Flight Facility
CO2 Sounder Lidar for Earth Science Missions	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
An Onboard Implementation of Autonomous Celestial Navigation	Completed	3	Navigation Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Design and Testing of Advanced Composites and Coatings for Radiation Environment Shielding Applicable to Crew Vehicles, Habitats, and Avionics (ACCRES)	Completed	2	Materials for Extreme Environments	Marshall Space Flight Center
Toward Fine Strip Pitch Germanium Detectors in Space	Completed	6	Cryogenic/Thermal Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Series-Bosch System for CO2 Reduction/Resource Recovery	Completed	2	Logistics Management	Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Branch
Development of absolute radiometric response functions for HyPlant & G-LiHT using SIRCUS: Spectral Irradiance and Radiance responsivity Calibrations using Uniform Sources (SIRCUS)	Completed	6	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE)	Completed	6	Thermal Management Systems	Glenn Research Center
A Microbial Characterization System for Advancing Planetary Protection Bioburden Assessments	Completed	4	Planetary Protection	Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrated/Arrival/Departure/Surface Operations	Completed	4	Traffic Management Concepts	Ames Research Center
Mars Subsurface Access (MSA)	Completed	3	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
FY18-C2 GRC: Light-Weight Hollow-Strut Metal Foam Supported- Solid Oxide Fuel Cells	Completed	3	Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells	Glenn Research Center
Tunable Fiber Laser for OH LIF: Tunable fiber laser	Completed	3	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Quantifying Radiation Storm Impacts on Interplanetary Missions (Radiation Storm Impacts)	Completed	—	Space Weather Prediction	Goddard Space Flight Center
Precise Laser Measurements of Miniscule Electric Field Sensor Displacements to Determine Upper Atmosphere Properties	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Dedicated High-Performance Radiation-Tolerant Processor for On-Board Instrument Processing and In-Situ Science Autonomy (RADICAL)	Completed	3	High-Performance Processors	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.