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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.

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

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 141 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
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 2025-12-02 —
Ion Mass Spectrometer for Heliospheric Missions Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
The Charge Analyzer Responsive to Local Oscillations Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
In-Situ Resource Utilization: Carbon Dioxide Collection, Separation, and Pressurization (ISRU) Completed 2 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
Next Generation Post-Flight Processing and Analysis With Data Mining Toolset Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Armstrong Flight Research Center 2025-12-02 —
Radiation Tolerant Digital Processing Unit for Neutron Spectroscopy Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
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 2025-12-02 —
Black Sprayable Molecular Adsorber Coating Completed 5 Coatings Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Rapid Model-Based Assessment of RDRE Injector and Chamber Designs Completed 3 — — 2025-12-02 —
All Metal X-band Antenna for Omni and High Gain Feed Completed 4 Radio Frequency Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Integrated Modeling and Error Budget Framework Development for Future Large Missions Completed 5 Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Adaptive Estimator and Controller for Line-of Sight Pointing Errors for Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions Completed 1 Aerodynamic Decelerators Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Printed Hybrid Electronics for Demonstrations on Next Generation Microshutter Array Assemblies and Sounding Rocket Launch Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Next Generation Tunable 353/530 nm Fiber Laser formaldehyde (HCHO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Adaptive Digital Pre-distorter for Higher-Order Modulation Nonlinearities and Data Jitter Completed 3 Spectrum Efficiency Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
FY18-C1 GRC: H2O Electrolysis with Impure Water Source Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Glenn Research Center 2025-12-02 —
Utilizing Bosch Generated Carbon for Additive Manufacturing Completed 1 Logistics Management Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
FY17 IRTD Flammability and Corrosion Testing of Lightweight Magnesium Alloys for Mass Reduction and Radiation Mitigation in Spacecraft Applications Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Kennedy Space Center 2025-12-02 —
Atoms to Aircraft to Spacecraft (A2A) Completed 2 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing University of South Carolina-Columbia 2025-12-02 —
Advancing Particle Tracking Techniques Using Novel Silicon Photomultipliers Designs Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
New polarization capabilities for the the McPherson VUV reflectometer Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Additively Manufactured Advanced Space Engines (AMPT) Completed 3 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
SWaP-efficient, fast-wavelength-steering and time-division-multiplexing lidar technology capable of multi-beam ranging and concurrent hyper-spectral imaging (CASALS) Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Long-duration independent gondola attitude sensor package for shock and termination measurements (DINGO) Completed 3 State Estimation and Monitoring Wallops Flight Facility 2025-12-02 —
FY17 GRC: Testing Power Systems for Venus Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center 2025-12-02 —
FY17 GRC: Activation of Hydrocarbon Fuel Qualities and Fuel reforming via High-Voltage Non-equilibrium Nanosecond Pulsed Plasma Completed 2 Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Glenn Research Center 2025-12-02 —
Noise-free Cryogenic Cooling Systems Canceled 1 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
EUV Doppler Imaging for CubeSat Platforms Completed 4 Observatories Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
ElectroHydroDynamic (EHD) Completed 4 Heat Transport Glenn Research Center 2025-12-02 —
Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project: Variable-Speed Power Turbine Technology Demonstration Completed 3 Propulsion Systems Langley Research Center 2025-12-02 —
MACROS: Molecular Analyzer for Complex Refractory Organic-rich Surfaces Completed 3 Environment Sensors Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie 2025-12-02 —
Development of High Contrast Lenslets for Integral Field Spectroscopy Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Balloon Platform for Ultra-Low-Background Spectroscopy Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Surface irregularity and spectral characterization of UV enhanced lithium fluoride, aluminum tri-fluoride, and magnesium fluoride coatings Completed 4 Planetary Protection Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Degradation of Vitro-Lube after environmental exposure (Tribology Testing) Completed 1 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Enabling Autonomous Differential Drag Control and Attitude Maneuvering Using Onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) for SmallSat Distributed Space Missions (DSMs) Completed 5 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Lunar Flashlight Completed 5 Destination Resource Exploration Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-12-02 —
Fabrication of Amorphous Metallic Glass in Space (FAMIS) Completed 2 Special Materials Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-12-02 —
HCAAM VNSCOR: Virtual Assistant for Spacecraft Anomaly Treatment During Long Duration Exploration Missions Completed 4 Human Factors Engineering Johnson Space Center 2025-12-02 —
Additive Construction of Spaceport Infrastructure (Water Tank) - FY19 IRTD Completed 4 Mission Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Supportability Kennedy Space Center 2025-12-02 —
Textural Pattern Recognition for Life Detection (TPR) Completed 1 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Fuzzing Flight Software: A "Black Hat" Approach to Software Testing Completed 6 Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Far-ultraviolet coating enhancement of digital micromirror devices for use in multi-object spectrographs Completed 4 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
High precision relative position sensing system for formation flying spacecraft Completed 4 Distributed Aperture Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
Development of a Transition-Edge Sensor Anti-Coincidence Detector for a Probe Class Mission Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-12-02 —
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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.