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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 151 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Advanced Lithography to Maximize Performance of Wafer-thin Integrated Photonic Spectrographs, Year 1 Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Experimental Investigation and Chemical Modeling of Thruster Plumes for Planetary Landers Active 2 Propulsion Systems for Landing University of Central Florida
Novel Material Systems and Methodologies for Transient Thermal Management, Year 2 (RPT & CIF) Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Aftshell Radiative Heating During Planetary Entry Completed 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Stanford University
Mitigating Aerospace Vehicle Communication Blackout by an Experimental Demonstration of ‘Magnetic Windows’ Completed 5 Launch and Reentry Communications Glenn Research Center
Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission Completed 2 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Glenn Research Center
E-Glider: Active Electrostatic Flight for Airless Body Exploration Completed 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Study of Micro/Nano Scale EHD-Driven Flow Distribution Control and Heat Transfer Enhancement for Thermal Control Systems Completed 3 Heat Transport Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Damage-Tolerant, Lightweight, High-Temperature Radiator for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft, Year 2 Completed 2 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Autonomous Navigation and Multi-Modal Path Planning in Lunar Craters Using a Modular Snake-like Robot Completed 2 Surface Mobility Northeastern University
Developing x-ray laboratory astrophysics capability with a portable miniature permanent magnet EBIT Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Robotic Deposition Technology (RDT-ACO ) Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.
Using Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Microscale Geometry for Enhanced Thermionic Energy Conversion in Space Applications Completed 3 Static Energy Conversion University of Notre Dame
Development of Spike Ejector Technology Completed 3 Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management Stennis Space Center
Propellant and Terrestrial Fuel Production from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Year 1 Completed 4 — Glenn Research Center
Green Energy for the Red and Blue Planets Completed 2 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Ames Research Center
End-to-End Mission Design & Trajectory Optimization Year 2 of 3 Completed 4 Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Brane Craft Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors The Aerospace Corporation
SPYDER Technology GNC AVA Development Completed 7 GN&C System Architectures, Requirements, and Specifications UP Aerospace, Inc
Computational Modeling of Ablative Materials: Application to Phenolic Pyrolysis Completed 2 — Ames Research Center
TitanAir: Leading-Edge Liquid Collection to Enable Cutting-Edge Science Completed — Sample Handling Planet Enterprises
Structural Health Monitoring of Flight Structures, Year 2 Completed 4 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
An RFID-Enabled Sensor Interface for the EV Modular Instrumentation System Completed 4 — Johnson Space Center
Flexible, Lightweight Quantum Dot Solar Cells Using Plasmonic-Enhanced Light Absorption Completed 3 Dynamic Energy Conversion University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Soil Conditioning Device for ISRU Preparation and Excavation Tools Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center
Extended Reality Displays for Electric Powertrain Digital Twins Completed 5 Model-Based Systems Engineering Glenn Research Center
Ink-jet printable infrared detectors for in-space deployment Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis University of Miami
Verifiable Plans for Spacecraft Autonomy Completed 3 Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Ames Research Center
High-speed multiphase flow in plume-surface interaction Completed 3 Propulsion Systems for Landing Johns Hopkins University
Cryo Fluid Technologies (CFT) Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Glenn Research Center
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for High-Data-Rate Deep-Space Optical Communication Completed 3 Detector Development Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photophoretic Propulsion Enabling Mesosphere Exploration Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion University of Pennsylvania
Spaceflight Oculometric System for Mars Astronaut Robust Surveillance (SOS4MARS) Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
Additively Manufactured Ceramic Rocket Engine Components Completed 6 — HRL Laboratories, LLC
Autonomous Assembly of Solar Array Modules by a Team of Robots, Year 3 Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Langley Research Center
Development and Testing of Autonomous On-Orbit Assembly and Servicing Systems Using the SPHERES Testbed Completed 3 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantitative Dual-Band IR Thermography for Global Temperature Measurements Completed 2 Test Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center
Tendon-actuated Structural Modules for Enhanced Segmented Aperture Reflectors Completed 2 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Controllable Combustion of Metal Fuels for Space Power Systems Completed 4 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage The University of Texas at El Paso
Multiphysics Integrated Modeling of Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welding Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Ohio State University-Main Campus
Rover Technologies Completed 6 Surface Mobility Johnson Space Center
Integrated tapered active modulators for high efficiency Gbps PPM laser transmitter PICs Completed 4 Quantum Communications Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Assessing the Feasibility of Using Co-electrolysis to Concurrently Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water into Methane and Oxygen for Propellant and Life Support on Mars Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables University of Colorado Boulder
A Miniature Multimodal Imaging System for Medical Diagnostics and Interventions in Space Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis University of Akron Main Campus
Microlithography Fabricated Attenuators for X-Ray Detectors Completed 3 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
Ultra-thin diffractive lenses for next-generation earth radiation budget instruments Completed 3 Optical Components Langley Research Center
Quantum-based Distributed Estimation for Multi-Agent Planetary Exploration Completed 3 Sensing and Perception Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Integrated Photonics for Adaptive Discrete Multi-carrier Space-based Optical Communication and Ranging Completed 4 Quantum Communications University of California-San Diego
Direct Thrust Measurements of Electrostatic Sail Tethers Completed — Electrostatic Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Health monitoring of future space infrastructure using embedded material sensing systems, Year 2 Completed 3 Mechanical Systems 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.