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 142 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
NextSTEP Phase 2 Environmental Control Life Support Systems Modularity Study (NSTEP ECLSS)	Completed	3	Atmosphere Revitalization	NASA Headquarters
Formaldehyde Differential Absorption Spectroscopy	Completed	2	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lidar Laser Development and PBL Detection Techniques	Completed	3	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Low Loss Amorphous Silicon for MKID Detectors	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
High-Efficiency Feedhorn-Coupled Detector Arrays to Enable Next-Generation Space-Based CMB Polarization Missions	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Adaptive Aerostructures for Revolutionary Civil Supersonic Transportation	Completed	3	Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles	Texas A & M University-College Station
Spaceflight Injectable Delivery System	Canceled	4	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
GeneLab	Active	9	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Ames Research Center
Wide-Band Phase Calibration Spectral Analyzer	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Performance Characterization the Compact Astrometric Alignment Sensor (CAAS) for Precision Formation Flying (CAAS)	Completed	4	Other GN&C Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Commercial TDRS compatible cubesat communications solution	Completed	6	Quantum Communications	Goddard Space Flight Center
Exploration Docking Hatch (EDH)	Completed	7	Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces	Johnson Space Center
A Laboratory Demonstration of Quantum-Noise-Limited Amplifiers for Future Instruments at both GHz and mm bands (LDQNLA)	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of a compact optical pointing and tracking design to correct ranging error in laser satellite to satellite tracking (PAT)	Completed	3	Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Frequency agile heterodyne detector for submillimeter spectroscopy of planets and comets	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Preliminary Investigation into Dissolvable Supports for Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 Components	Completed	2	Manufacturing Processes	Arizona State University-Tempe
Miniaturized Scrubber System for Long Duration Exploration and Habitation Applications (MSS)	Completed	3	Atmosphere Revitalization	Dynetics, Inc.
Enabling Rapid, End-To-End, Medium-Fidelity Optimization of New Classes of Planetary Science Missions	Completed	5	Other Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Logistics Materials for Reuse	Completed	3	Waste Management	Kennedy Space Center
ESCAPE Mirror Module Assembly Development (ESCAPE MMA)	Completed	3	Optical Components	Marshall Space Flight Center
Radiometer Concept Design for the Future of Precipitation Mapping	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development and Characterization of Detector Electrodes of Molecular Electronic Transducer Seismometers	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Artemis Suit Materials (ASM)	Active	3	Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems	Johnson Space Center
Novel Ionic Liquid Monopropellant Development	Completed	3	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Marshall Space Flight Center
Enabling Time-Domain/Multi-Messenger Mission Readiness (ETDAMMR)	Completed	3	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Process Development of Rapid Powder Removal for AM GRCop Copper Alloys	Completed	1	Ground and Surface Logistics	Marshall Space Flight Center
Engineering Concept Design & Assembly in VR Program	Completed	5	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Navigation for Co-Orbiting Spacecraft (AIDNav)	Completed	6	Navigation Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Precision Landing of a Hexacopter Drone by Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor	Completed	3	Entry, Descent, and Landing	Marshall Space Flight Center
511 keV Focusing Telescope	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Laboratory-scale demonstration of a Trajectory Control System for Balloons	Completed	1	Environment Sensors	Wallops Flight Facility
Sample Processor for Life on Icy Worlds (SPLIce)	Completed	4	Environment Sensors	—
Rebuild PISCES for Exoplanet Spectroscopy Demonstrations at Goddard	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Preparing for aerial magnetic surveys at Mars	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	—
Wireless Communication Demonstration of Hardware Accelerated cFS Disruption Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol	Completed	4	Disruption Tolerant Networking	Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrated Demand Management	Completed	4	Traffic Management Concepts	Ames Research Center
Cognitive Work Analysis for Manual Steering of Highly Automated Systems	Completed	3	Informatics and Decision Support Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Mid-Infrared Quasi-Optical Filter Development	Completed	4	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
EarthShine: Our World as an Exoplanet, from the Surface of the Moon	Completed	5	Destination Resource Exploration	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Guidelines for Use of Proton Single-Event Test Data to Bound Single-Event Effect Susceptibility Due to Light Ions	Completed	6	Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling	Goddard Space Flight Center
FY17 GRC: Supercritical Water Plasma-Assisted Oxidation	Completed	3	ECLSS Modeling and Simulation Tools	Glenn Research Center
Test Bed for Human Performance in Mockup Suit	Completed	2	Human-System Performance Modeling	Johnson Space Center
Atomic Interferometer Gravity Gradiometer Simulation Environment	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of an Additive Manufacturing Ecosystem for Qualification of Additive Manufacturing Processes and Materials in Aviation	Completed	2	Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing	Carnegie Mellon University
FY18-C2 GRC: SiC Charged Particle Telescope	Completed	2	Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management	Glenn Research Center
Ultra-Low Noise Bolometric Detectors for Mid- to Far-IR Space Observatories	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Nyquist Imaging Radiometer for K to W-band	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Passive Microwave Instrument Studies for Next Generation Precipitation and Cloud Measurements	Completed	1	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Communications Relay Demo Experiments (LCRD-X)	Completed	8	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of New Enhanced Measurement Techniques and Synergies for Continuous Air Quality Observations	Completed	2	Collaborative Science and Engineering	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.