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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 148 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Deep Space Radiation Effects on Inflatable Habitat and Spacesuit Materials, Year 1 (MRAD) Completed 4 Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) Completed 6 — Ames Research Center
Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers for 3D Integrated Circuits, Year 2 Completed 4 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Cold Plasma Cleaning and Disinfection of Produce and Surfaces, Year 2 Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Space Rated Plasma Generating Power Supply Development Completed 4 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation Kennedy Space Center
Visual Radar, Year 2 Completed 5 Navigation Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bioremediation of Microgravity Biofilms and Water Processor Health Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Marshall Space Flight Center
Low-Thrust Many-Revolution Trajectory Optimization Completed 3 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination University of Colorado Boulder
EM Acoustic Transducers and Eddy Current Testing for NDE of Welds in Space Completed 3 — —
Plasma Deflection and Detachment Methods in a Pulsed Magnetic Field Completed 3 Electrothermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
High Temperature Contactless RF Probing of Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC) Devices Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Quantum-cascade metasurfaces for THz semiconductor lasers and amplifiers Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Regolith Biters: A Divide-And-Conquer Architecture for Sample Return Missions Completed 2 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Metal Matrix Composites for On-orbit and On-surface Services in Extreme Space Environment, Year 2 Completed 3 Materials for Extreme Environments Langley Research Center
Gandalf Staff Mobile Tool for Lunar Exploration YEAR 2 Completed 5 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Johnson Space Center
Lightweight Deployable Integrable Antenna (LiDIA) Completed 3 Innovative Antennas Marshall Space Flight Center
Magnetic Active Radiation Shielding System Using Helmholtz Coil Lattices Completed 1 Protection Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Composite Conductor Power Cable Tether Completed 2 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Regenerative Ammonia Recovery from ISS Wastewater to facilitate Plant Growth, Year 2 Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Kennedy Space Center
Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Characterization of Slosh Dynamics Applied to In-Space Propellant Storage, Management, and Transfer Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Florida Institute of Technology
Self-Cleaning Boudouard Reactor, Year 2 Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Kennedy Space Center
Development of an Adaptive Second-Order Time Discretization Algorithm for Unsteady Flow Analysis using Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program (GFSSP) Completed 3 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Development of Laser Assisted Manufacturing Processes for Spaceflight Applications Completed 5 Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Cryogenic Reservoir Inventory by Cost-Effective Kinetically Enhanced Technology (CRICKET) Completed 2 Destination Resource Exploration Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory
Space Suit Composites (SSC) Completed — Portable Life Support System Johnson Space Center
Closed-loop physics-based manipulation under uncertainty Completed 3 Dexterous Manipulation University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Pulsar Navigation for Crewed Exploration of the Solar System, Year 3 Completed 4 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Johnson Space Center
Collaborative Mixed-Reality Engineering Tool, Year 3 (MRET) Completed 6 Simulation-Based Training and Decision Support Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Model Development and Experimental Validation of Reactive Gas and Pyrolysis Product Interactions with Hot Carbon Chars Completed 4 Thermal Protection Systems University of Kentucky
Fluid Fitting Torque Guidance Completed 3 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center
Development of 3-D Printed Molecular Electronic Transducer Seismometers Completed 2 Environment Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Soft-Robotic Rover with Electrodynamic Power Scavenging Completed 2 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Cornell University
Self-Healing Electronics for Deep Space Missions Completed 5 Integrated Risk Assessment Tools Ames Research Center
Characterize Human Forward Contamination Project Completed 8 — Johnson Space Center
Scotch-Tape Mirror for Hard X-rays, Year 2 Completed 1 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Thermo-Photo-Catalysis of Water for Crewed Mars Transit Spacecraft Oxygen Supply Completed — Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Precision Combustion, Inc.
Evaluation of Photon Sieve for Lidar Systems, Year 3 Completed 4 Lasers Langley Research Center
Truly Flexible Heat Pipe Using Amorphous Metal for Advanced Electronic Devices Completed 2 Heat Transport Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Gravitational Wave Detector Based on an Atom Interferometer Completed 5 Design and Certification Methods Goddard Space Flight Center
Novel Solid Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolyte to Enable Lithium Metal Safely Cycling for Next Generation High Energy Battery Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Sparse Wavefront Control: A New approach to exoplanet high-contrast imaging Completed 3 Mirror Systems Ames Research Center
NexTrack: sun tracking through cloud edges for next-generation sunphotometry using a multi-spectral machine vision system Completed — Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Ames Research Center
Exploratory Planning for Search and Detection of Subsurface Voids Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Completed 3 Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Carnegie Mellon University
Plasma-Assisted Life and Ecological Operating System (PALEOS) Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Glenn Research Center
Human Persistence on the Lunar Surface Enabled by Artificial Photosynthesis Completed — Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Glenn Research Center
Experimentation and Modeling of Hypervelocity Impacts of Spacecraft MMOD Shielding with Incorporated Shear Thickening Fluid Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Mississippi State University
Probabilistic approaches for robust thermal process prediction in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing Completed 3 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
End-to-End Mission Design & Trajectory Optimization Completed 7 Trajectory Design and Analysis Johnson Space Center
Dust Abrasion Damage on Martian Solar Arrays Completed 4 — Glenn Research Center
Guidance of Swarms Deployed from Back Shell of the Mars Spacecraft for Distributed Science Completed 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.