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.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 153 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
High-current Hollow Cathode Development	Completed	4	Electric Space Propulsion	Glenn Research Center
Adaptive Sampling to Enable Autonomous Systems Analysis and Design	Completed	1	Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle	Langley Research Center
ADEPT-Spider weave thermal testing (Spiderweave-ACO)	Completed	4	Hypersonic Decelerators	Bally Ribbon Mills
Deep Machine-Learning Methodology for Space Exploration Medical Diagnosis, Year 2 (DML MD)	Completed	4	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Advanced Space Technology Roadmapping Architecture (ASTRA)	Completed	4	Model-Based Systems Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photophoretic propulsion enabling mesosphere exploration	Active	—	—	Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania
Particle Impact Simulation and Ignition Prediction	Completed	6	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Johnson Space Center
Gravity Poppers: Hopping Probes for the Interior Mapping of Small Solar System Bodies	Active	—	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hydrogen Peroxide / Kerosene Engine Development	Completed	6	Earth Storable Propellants	Dynetics, Inc.
Power Beaming for Long Life Venus Surface Missions	Completed	2	Distribution and Transmission	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ultrafast Laser Material Processing: Welding, Drilling and Waveguide Inscription, Year 1	Completed	1	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar-Polar Propellant Mining Outpost: Affordable Exploration and Industrialization (LPMO)	Completed	3	Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation	Trans Astronautica Corporation
In situ Recovery of Oxygen and High Purity, Single Element Metals from Regolith using Task Specific Ionic Liquid Facilitated Electrochemical Solvent Extraction	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	University of Colorado Boulder
Plant Leaching for Nutrient Recovery in Closed Loop Systems, Year 1	Completed	8	—	Kennedy Space Center
Scalable Metaverse Enabled Digital Twin Platform Year 1 of 3	Completed	4	Model-Based Systems Engineering	Johnson Space Center
Flame Propagation in a Dump Combustor with Shear Layer Excitation	Completed	3	Other Propulsion Systems	Purdue University-Main Campus
Flow Boiling and Condensation in Microgravity	Completed	3	Thermal Control Analysis	Purdue University-Main Campus
First Demonstration of Pulsar Positioning System, Year 2 (PPS)	Completed	6	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Electrostatic Droplet Dispensing System	Completed	5	—	Glenn Research Center
Electrochemical Detection of Biological Catalysts as Signatures of Life	Completed	4	—	Ames Research Center
Large, High-Efficiency Sieves for High-Resolution, Fast-Cadence Solar Imaging	Completed	4	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Broadband Silicon Dielectric Mirrors for Infrared Astronomy	Canceled	4	—	Goddard Space Flight Center
Prototyping Tensegrity Landers for Ultra-Low Cost Secondary Payloads on Unknown Terrain, Year 1	Completed	4	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Evolvable Habitation Architectures for Long-duration Human Exploration Systems	Completed	3	Habitation Systems	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Extreme Solar Sailing for Breakthrough Space Exploration	Completed	3	Propulsion Systems	University of Southern California
A Novel Receiver for Coherent Communication	Completed	3	Atmospheric Mitigation	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Holistic Bayesian Framework for Intelligent Calibration of Constellations of Sensors	Completed	3	Architecture and Design of Autonomous Systems	Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Store-Carry-and-Forward Research	Completed	3	—	Glenn Research Center
Physical Processes in High Current Hollow Cathodes	Completed	3	Electrostatic Propulsion	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Integrated computational materials modelling framework for investigating the process-structure-property linkage of the lunar metal welding with internal defects	Active	—	Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing	The University of Texas at Dallas
FFRE Afterburner	Completed	4	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Spacecraft Rendezvous Techniques for Multi-Body Gravitational Environments	Active	2	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Purdue University-Main Campus
Silicon and Iron Regolith Extraction on the Moon (SIRE)	Completed	5	Destination Resource Exploration	—
ISRU of Recycled Thermoplastic and Lunar Regolith as Composites for Lunar Habitats	Completed	4	—	—
Chemical Mechanical Planarization technology enabling higher performance detectors, multiplexers, and microwave devices for astrophysics missions, Year 1	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
CO2 Breathing Ramjet Propulsion for Planetary Exploration Applications	Completed	2	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Langley Research Center
Compact Microtube Igniter for Methane Rockets	Completed	5	Cryogenic Propulsion	Glenn Research Center
Mobility in the Small Body Environment: Close Proximity Landing and Surface Dynamics	Completed	3	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	University of Colorado Boulder
Multi-scale Analysis of Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet Laminates for Space Radiator Applications Using NASMAT	Completed	2	Heat Rejection and Storage	Utah State University
In-Space/On-Surface 3D Printing of Sodium-Ion Batteries Using In-Situ Resource Utilization Materials (SIBatt-3D)	Completed	5	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	Marshall Space Flight Center
MoBall: An Energy-Harvesting & Self-Propelling Spherical Sensor Platform	Completed	3	Dynamic Energy Conversion	California Institute of Technology
Frequency Selective Reflector Antenna	Completed	3	Innovative Antennas	Glenn Research Center
Moon Medicine: Blood Staining and Novel Miniaturized Imaging Technology to Facilitate Critical Lunar Diagnosis YEAR 3	Completed	7	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Technology Readiness Level Elevation of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) for Outer-Planetary in situ Organic Analysis	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
mSTAR	Completed	6	—	Ames Research Center
Electrostatic Coating for Lunar Space Suit	Completed	3	Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation	Johnson Space Center
Outpost Cargo Ferry: A Rapid Cargo Downmass Vehicle	Completed	6	Other Exploration Destination Systems	Outpost Technologies Corporation
Progressive Failure Analysis and Plasma Etch Studies	Completed	3	—	Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Aggregating Proteins and Amyloid Fibers	Completed	3	—	Kennedy Space Center
Intelligent MTconnect Eddy-Current Valve Probe Pilot Project within the High Pressure Gas Facility (HPGF) Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator Systems	Completed	6	—	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.