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 145 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Portable Passive Fast Light Optical Gyroscope (FLOG)	Completed	5	Navigation Sensors	Marshall Space Flight Center
Coordination Mechanisms for Human-Robot Teams in Space	Completed	3	Distributed Collaboration and Coordination	Tufts University
Full Lunar Surface Visualization and Simulation Platform Year 1 of 2	Completed	3	Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design	Johnson Space Center
Heat Transfer Manipulation via Switchable Wettability Surfaces	Completed	3	Heat Transport	Cornell University
Integrated Display & Environmental Awareness System (IDEAS)	Completed	5	Mission Success Technologies	Kennedy Space Center
Woven TPS A Revolutionary Approach to Tailorable TPS Design & Manufacturing for Thermal Management Systems & Entry, Descent & Landing Systems, Year 1	Completed	3	Thermal Protection Systems	Ames Research Center
Manipulating the Toughness of Rocks through Electric Potentials, Year 1	Completed	3	—	Ames Research Center
Plume Surface Interaction (PSI)	Completed	6	Other Entry, Descent, and Landing	Marshall Space Flight Center
Structure-Property Correlation of Alloys via Physics-Guided Deep Learning	Completed	3	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Marshall Space Flight Center
LOX/Methane Regeneratively-Cooled Rocket Engine Development	Completed	5	Cryogenic Propulsion	Johnson Space Center
Programmed reconfiguration and locomotion of untethered compliant structures	Completed	3	Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts	California Institute of Technology
Resource Prospector Support	Completed	4	Destination Resource Exploration	Johnson Space Center
Shock Mitigation Via Wire Bristles	Completed	3	Structural Dynamics	Marshall Space Flight Center
Advancement of Miniature Optic Gas Sensor (MOGS) Probe Technology Project	Completed	7	Portable Life Support System	Johnson Space Center
Four-Mirror Freeform Reflective Imaging Systems	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	University of Rochester
Modeling Small Volume Ni-Co Plating Bath Electrodeposition for Production of High-Angular Resolution Optics	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
µ2 Lab: Microfluidic Microbiology Lab	Completed	4	—	Johnson Space Center
Fundamental Research into Hyperelastic Materials for Flight Applications Element, Year 2	Completed	6	—	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Enabling Exploration of Permanently Shadowed Lunar Craters	Completed	—	Innovative RF Technologies	Glenn Research Center
On Orbit Ultraviolet-Cured Hybrid Inflatables	Completed	4	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Electric Sail Control System	Completed	2	Advanced Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Additive Manufacture of Molybdenum Thruster & Iridium Catalyst	Completed	4	Manufacturing Processes	Marshall Space Flight Center
Understanding and Improving Gas Core Nuclear Rocket Fissioning Fuel Confinement, Stability, and Heat Transfer through modeling and validation experiments	Completed	3	Solar Thermal Propulsion	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Biomimetic strategies for selective carbon dioxide capture with metal-organic frameworks	Completed	3	Atmosphere Revitalization	Ohio State University-Main Campus
Neutral characterization in Electrospray Propulsion Technology Using Novel Experiment (NEPTUNE)	Completed	2	Electrostatic Propulsion	Cornell University
OptoGeneSat: An Optogenetic Experimental Platform For Space	Completed	4	—	Ames Research Center
Collaborative Manipulation for Space Exploration and Construction	Completed	3	Distributed Collaboration and Coordination	Stanford University
Compact Pressure Regulating Subsystem (CPRS) for CubeSat Bimodal Propulsion	Completed	4	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Development and Characterization of 3D Woven Thermal Protection System via Arc Jet Testing	Completed	3	—	T.E.A.M., Inc.
A Drag Device and Control Algorithm for Spacecraft Attitude Stabilization and De-Orbit Point Targeting using Aerodynamic Drag	Completed	3	Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats	University of Florida
Atom Interferometry for detection of Gravity Waves-a	Completed	3	Navigation Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
AeroDrop: Study of Direct Atmospheric Entry for Secondary Payloads on Aerocapture Missions	Completed	3	Architecture Design and Analysis	University of Colorado Boulder
Versatile Inverted-Hand Robotic Design for Mobile Manipulation in Space Environments	Completed	3	Surface Mobility	Stanford University
Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit for Space Habitation and Exploration (V2Suit)	Completed	3	Vibroacoustics	The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
Arcjet Modeling	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Passively cooled superconductors in space	Completed	4	Aerospace Power and Energy Storage	Kennedy Space Center
Development of a Long-Life 50-kW Class Nested Hall Thruster	Completed	3	Electrostatic Propulsion	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Development of Benchtop Evaluation Capability for Analog Probability Processing Technology	Completed	4	—	Goddard Space Flight Center
Modeling Oxygen Production on Mars and Extension to a Human-Scale Mission	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Next generation global atmospheric water content observations leveraging Starlink constellation	Completed	2	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Langley Research Center
Micro-scale Electrohydrodynamic Thermal and Fluid Management for Advanced On-Board Processing Systems	Completed	3	Heat Rejection and Storage	Goddard Space Flight Center
Electromagnetic Solar Sail Coupling	Completed	4	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Geopolymer and Lunamer Binders as Radioactive Shielding Materials for Space Applications	Completed	2	—	Stennis Space Center
Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration (Saffire)	Completed	7	Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery	Glenn Research Center
Towards Validated, Accurate, & Predictive Simulations of High-Speed Particle-Laden Flows, Year 2	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Multi-resolution Traversability Assessment for Collaborative Surface Navigation, Year 2	Completed	5	Mobility	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Passive Radiation Shielding: Integrating Multilayer and Multipurpose Materials into Space Habitat Design	Completed	3	Protection Systems	University of Colorado Boulder
Extraterrestrial Marangoni Mining	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Marshall Space Flight Center
Vibrational Locomotion Enabling Subsurface Exploration of Unconsolidated Regolith, Year 2	Completed	4	—	Glenn Research Center
Autonomy Strategies: Ontology and Implementation	Completed	5	Mission Planning and Scheduling	Stennis Space 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.