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 143 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
AI Prediction Algorithms for Autonomous Science and Operations (AIPM)	Completed	4	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars Exploring by Analog Drilling (MEAD)	Active	4	Exploration Destination Systems	Ames Research Center
CubeSat Attitude Control System Testbed	Completed	3	GN&C Ground Testbeds and Test Facilities	Wallops Flight Facility
Applied Principal Component Interferometry (PCI)	Completed	3	Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle	Goddard Space Flight Center
Mid-Infrared Microlens Array Fabrication for KIDs by Silicon Etching	Completed	4	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lowering Emissions and Environmental Impact from Civil Supersonic Transport	Completed	4	Turbine-Based Jet Engines	Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Novel Ka-band High Gain Antenna Design for Comm Systems for future Earth Observing Missions	Completed	1	Innovative Antennas	Goddard Space Flight Center
Consistent Practices for Characterizing the Detection Limits of Inspection Systems (POD)	Canceled	4	Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors	White Sands Test Facility
The Canopy Height And Glacier Elevation mission: a next generation topographic concept for ecosystem and cryospheric science (CHANGE)	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Exploring 3-Axis Fluxgate Magnetometer Sensor innovations	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Linear Mode Photon Counting HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Multi-beam Laser Altimeters	Completed	2	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Nanosensor Fabrication with 3D Manufacturing Techniques	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Chemical Gardens (CG)	Completed	2	Dynamic Energy Conversion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Creating a NASA Data Oriented Transformer Framework for Next Generation Retrieval and Modeling	Completed	3	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
Automated Vascular Access for Spaceflight (PI: Buckland)	Completed	3	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Large Scale Cleaning Telescope Mirrors with Electron Beams Project	Completed	4	Mirror Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Non-Scanning 3D Imager for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking	Completed	3	Relative Navigation Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
FY18-C2 GRC: Flow Batteries with High Specific Energy and High Specific Power for Electric Aviation	Completed	2	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	Glenn Research Center
Instrument Development for the Orbiting Artificial Star for High-Resolution Coronal Imaging from the Ground (ORCAS)	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) Embedded GPS Receiver	Completed	6	Safe All-Vehicle Access	Goddard Space Flight Center
Toward Resilient Spacecraft: Artificially Intelligent Reasoning for Diagnosing Safe Modes	Completed	4	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
Supercooled Liquid and Mixed-phase Cloud Profiler (SLiM)	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Hot Gas Facility Skin Friction Measurements	Completed	4	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Marshall Space Flight Center
Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project: Two-Speed Drive System Demo	Completed	4	Turboelectric Propulsion	Langley Research Center
Microwave AeroGel Volatile Collector (MAGVC) Gas Filtration and Collection Subsystem	Completed	2	Ground, Test, and Surface Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Development of a Novel Magnetic Susceptibility Instrument	Completed	1	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
NOS3 for DSM	Completed	3	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Millimeter-wave spectrometer for chirality and relative abundance determination of amino acid biomarkers	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Autonomous Navigation, Guidance and Control (autoNGC)	Active	5	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Hard X-ray Photoelectric Polarimeter	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Redeployment of SVGS for Rendezvous and Docking in Space Applications	Completed	2	Relative Navigation Sensors	Florida Institute of Technology
Low-cost Mars telecom relay antenna	Completed	4	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	—
FY17 GRC: Shock/Corrosion Proof Bearings for Space Mechanisms	Completed	4	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Glenn Research Center
LIfE: Luminescence Imager for Exploration	Completed	4	Environment Sensors	—
Advancing Lithography In the Detector Development Laboratory	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
High Performance Infrared Filters using a Low Loss Polymer	Completed	3	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Off-Earth Servicing Component Advancement (OESCA) Flight-like Coriolis Mass Flowmeter Development (OESCA)	Completed	4	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Kennedy Space Center
Low Cost, Low Noise, High Voltage Pulser-Driver for Spaceborne Electro-Optics for Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing (HVPD)	Completed	5	Above-Surface Mobility	Goddard Space Flight Center
Deep Space Quantum Link (DSQL)	Active	2	Quantum Communications	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Next Generation Fine Sun Sensor for Nanosatellites	Completed	3	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Applied Traffic Flow Management	Completed	3	Traffic Management Concepts	Ames Research Center
The AMEGO-X Tracker Design	Completed	4	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Satellite-based Measurements of Vegetation Optical Depth and Vegetation Water Content (SM_VOD_VWC)	Completed	2	Thermal Control Analysis	Goddard Space Flight Center
Demonstrating SWIR performance of SLS detectors and compact optical designs for Earth science applications	Completed	4	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Auto-pointing Mechanism for Lunar Lander Laser Retroreflectors (ALLLR)	Completed	3	Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices	Goddard Space Flight Center
Ion Control System (ICS) Characterization	Completed	5	Electromagnetic Propulsion	Goddard Space Flight Center
Returning to Fundamentals: Using Nascent Technologies to Make Modern Radiometers	Completed	3	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Seismometer for a Lunar Network (SLN) (SLN)	Completed	5	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	University of Arizona
Building an Onboard AI to Act as Advance Science Team	Completed	5	Learning and Adaptation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Polaris Project: Enabling Full Scale Laser Procressed Condensing Heat Exchanger (LP-CHX) Manufacturing (LP-CHX)	Completed	4	Atmosphere Revitalization	Glenn Research 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.