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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.

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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 146 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Robust Path Planning for Space Exploration Rovers Completed 3 Path Planning Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Temperature‐Modulated Radiative Coatings for Dynamic Thermal Management of Spacecraft Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Arizona State University-Tempe
Astrobotic Software Defined Reliability (ACO-ASDR) Completed 6 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Langley Research Center
Development and Characterization of a Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Device Using Torsional Magnetic Reconnection Active 2 Electromagnetic Propulsion University of Alabama in Huntsville
Low Loss Tapered Fiber Waveguide Modulator for Crew Cognitive State Monitoring (CSM) Completed 3 Behavioral Health and Performance Glenn Research Center
Ultra High Temperature and Multifunctional Ceramic Matrix Composite - Coating Systems for Light-Weight Space and Aero Systems Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials Glenn Research Center
Towards Real-Time and High-Precision Trajectory Simulation for Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, Year 2 Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Langley Research Center
Transitioning from Extent Estimation to Individual Tracking Following an Orbital Break-up Event Completed 3 Orbital Debris Tracking University of Maryland-College Park
Pulsar Navigation for Crewed Exploration of the Solar System, Year 2 Completed 4 — Johnson Space Center
A robust, cell-free production system for on-demand protein synthesis in space Completed 2 — Ames Research Center
Nanoengineered Ultra High-Temperature Ceramics for High Strength and Toughness Multifunctional Composites for Space Applications Active 2 Materials for Extreme Environments Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coherent Thomson Scattering to Investigate Lower-Hybrid Instabilities in the Front Pole Region of a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster Active 2 Electrostatic Propulsion Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Planetary Mobile Mining and Scalable In-Situ Water Extraction System for Mars Surface Completed 2 — Kennedy Space Center
Bend-Forming of Large Electrostatically Actuated Space Structures Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3-D Printed Thrust Takeout Structure Challenge, Year 2 Completed 4 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation Stennis Space Center
Infrared Plasmonic Nanoantennas Completed 3 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Additive Manufacturing of Novel Transition Metal Boride Material System Resistant to Wear and Corrosion for Lunar and Planetary Exploration, Year 1 Completed 2 Materials Langley Research Center
Optimizing Carbon Nanotube Composite Performance via Novel Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning Methods Active 2 Computational Materials Virginia Commonwealth University
Protein Colloidal Aggregation Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for the Optimization of Hybrid Rocket Motors Completed 2 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Icy-Moon Cryo Environment Penetrating Ice Claw (ICE-PIC) Completed 4 Surface Mobility University of Maryland-College Park
Communication of Robot Status to Improve Human-Robot Collaboration Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction University of Southern California
Fabrication and Characterization of a Grooved Ring Fuel Element for a Nuclear Thermal Rocket Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Look-down Sensor for Soil Erosion, Year 2 Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Development of the Fast-Acting, Deep-Throttling Hybrid Motor Completed 4 Hybrids Marshall Space Flight Center
Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Texas A & M University-College Station
PIPES: Piezoelectric Instrument for Precision Exploration Sampling Completed 3 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors University of Illinois Chicago
Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robotics (PUFFER) Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Liquid-Vapor Diagnostics in Rotating Detonation Combustors for Liquid Rocket Engines Completed 2 Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion Purdue University-Main Campus
Development of a Restartable, Green-Propellant Thruster for Small Spacecraft Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Utah State University
Solid-State Thermionic Power for Human Exploration and Commercial Generation, Year 2 Completed 5 — Johnson Space Center
Polaris Project: Spaceflight Autonomous Multigenerational Microbial Sequencer (SAMMS) Completed 4 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Kennedy Space Center
Trajectory Construction within Multi-Body Systems via Roadmap Generation Completed 3 Mission Planning and Scheduling University of Colorado Boulder
Innovative Techniques for Micro-scale Additive Manufacturing for Sensors Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Turion Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Mission Concept Study (SSPICY Turion) Completed 4 Orbital Debris Characterization Turion Space Corp.
Thermo-structurally optimized lattice materials and structures for large-scale space applications Completed 4 Lightweight Structural Materials University of California-Irvine
Metal Extraction from Trash via Trash-to-Gas Processing Completed 3 Waste Management Kennedy Space Center
Magneto-Inductive Communications for Ocean Worlds Completed 3 Innovative RF Technologies Glenn Research Center
Energy Accommodation from Surface Catalyzed Reactions in Air Plasmas Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Vermont
Conformal Pinhole-free Metallic Nanofilms for Advanced Particle Fuel Coating by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion University of Colorado Boulder
Topology Optimization for Additively Manufactured Designs, Accounting for Material Variability, Location and Geometric Dependencies, and the Detection and Repair of Flaws Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Johns Hopkins University
Lightweight Multifunctional Planetary Probe for Extreme Environment Exploration and Locomotion Completed 3 Other Entry, Descent, and Landing SUNY Buffalo State
Dynamically Step Locked Seed Laser for Cross-Cutting SmallSat Water Vapor and Methane DIAL, Year 1 Completed 4 Electronics Langley Research Center
Developing Highly Multiplexed Detectors for MUSTANG2 Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Pennsylvania
Supersonic Trajectory Optimization Completed 3 Flight Vehicle Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Design of Tunable Terahertz Receiver Based on Quantum Cascade Laser Completed 2 Lasers Glenn Research Center
Low Temperature Liquid CO2 Laundry for Logistics Reduction Completed 4 Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems Kennedy Space Center
ISRU-Water Electrolysis Trade Study-BAA (WES) Completed — Sample Handling Collins Aerospace
NanoTHOR: Low-Cost Launch of Nanosatellites to Deep Space Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Tethers Unlimited Inc
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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.