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 154 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Ultralow Density Aerogel Mirrors	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
EGO-xO: Nanosats for Advanced Gravity Mapping and Crosslink Occultation	Completed	5	—	Geo Optics, LLC
A New Experiment for Determining Evaporation and Condensation Coefficients of Cryogenic Propellants and Development of an Efficient Computational Model of Cryogenic Film Stability in Microgravity	Completed	4	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Michigan Technological University
Upper-Atmospheric Space and Earth Weather Experiment Element, Year 1	Completed	6	—	Armstrong Flight Research Center
3D Printing Heat Shields, Year 2	Completed	3	—	Johnson Space Center
Rapid Process Development of Aerospace Alloys using Small Punch Test	Completed	3	Computational Materials	Marshall Space Flight Center
Game Changing Transformable Entry System Technology (TEST) Applicability to Robotic Venus Science Missions, Year 1	Completed	3	Hypersonic Decelerators	Ames Research Center
Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	California Institute of Technology
Autonomous Medical Operations (AMO)	Completed	4	Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis	Ames Research Center
Learning the Electron Density Fields Predicted by Density Functional Theory Using Physics-Inspired Machine Learning Approaches	Completed	3	Computational Materials	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Development of Novel Electrolytes for High-Energy Lithium Metal Batteries Operating at Ultra-Low Temperatures	Completed	3	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	University of California-San Diego
Optimizing Materials for Energy Harvesting on Interplanetary Return Missions	Completed	3	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Carnegie Mellon University
Innovative Health Monitoring Techniques for High Temperature Composites	Completed	3	—	Glenn Research Center
Autonomous Phase-Space Mapping and Navigation for Spacecraft Operations in Extreme Orbital Environments	Completed	3	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	University of Colorado Boulder
Illumination Invariant Terrain Relative Navigation	Completed	3	Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
New Class of Bimodal NTP/NEP with a Wave Rotor Topping Cycle Enabling Fast Transit to Mars	Completed	—	Solar Thermal Propulsion	University of Florida
Ultra-efficient Micropatterned Variable Emissivity Coatings Engineered for Extreme Environments	Completed	3	Heat Rejection and Storage	Purdue University-Main Campus
The Impact of Particle-Laden Flows on Planetary Entry Aerothermodynamics	Completed	3	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Missouri University of Science and Technology
Demonstration of a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector (SNSPD) with a flight-like 1 K cooling system	Completed	5	Detector Development	Goddard Space Flight Center
Data Anomaly Detection System	Completed	3	Environment Testing	Glenn Research Center
Reducing Risk and Increasing Exploration Payoff with Symbiotic Rover Pairs	Completed	3	Management and Control	Carnegie Mellon University
Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator - NuSil (PICA-N)	Completed	5	Simulation	Ames Research Center
Self-Cleaning Boudouard Reactor for Full Oxygen Recovery from CO2	Completed	5	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Kennedy Space Center
Granular Metamaterials and Periodic Structures for Protection from High-Velocity Impacts	Completed	3	Lightweight Structural Materials	California Institute of Technology
Flight Research of Hyperelastic Materials, Year 3	Completed	5	—	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Robust 3D Modeling via Neural Radiance Fields	Completed	3	Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis	Ames Research Center
Propellant Delivery Via VDC Driven Pump, Year 1	Completed	—	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Stennis Space Center
Scale-Up of Thermal Runaway Resistant Li-Ion Battery Cases, Year 1	Completed	4	Energy Storage	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Focal plane wavefront estimation for space mission coronagraphs.	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	Ames Research Center
Multi-Gbps Spatial Mode-Diversity Coherent Optical Receiver	Completed	5	Innovative Signal Modulations	Glenn Research Center
Miniaturized Waveguide Fourier Transform Spectrometer	Completed	3	—	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Radioluminescent Tritium Material for High Visibility Applications	Completed	4	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Marshall Space Flight Center
Enabling Neptune Aerocapture by Enhancing TPS Performance with Thermal Barrier Coatings	Completed	2	Thermal Protection Systems	Ames Research Center
Augmented analysis and data collection for materials design and evaluations	Completed	1	Intelligent Data Understanding	Langley Research Center
Temperature tunable solar blocking etalon filter for space-based water vapor differential absorption lidar	Completed	3	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Langley Research Center
Condition Matched Radiant Testing (CMaRT)	Completed	2	Entry, Descent, and Landing	Armstrong Flight Research Center
MINERVA: Using Small, Fully Robotic Telescopes to Search for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets	Completed	3	Distributed Aperture	California Institute of Technology
Armstrong Flies on Mars, Titan, and Venus: Simulation capability development to facilitate UAV exploration of other planets	Completed	3	Autonomous Systems	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Wavelength Division Multiplexing with 2-D PPM for Optical Space Communications	Completed	3	Optimetrics	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Detectors for Hard X-ray Imaging Velocity Tomography of Supernova Remnants	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	California Institute of Technology
Ultrasonic Teeth for Lunar Bucket Excavation	Completed	2	Destination Resource Exploration	Glenn Research Center
VESsel GENeration Analysis Software	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Holographic Projection of Structured Beams of Light for Target Ranging, Remote Velocimetry, and Sample Acquisition	Completed	2	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Variable property fluids for dynamic environments	Completed	3	Heat Rejection and Storage	Johnson Space Center
Spallation Effects in TPS Models	Completed	2	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	University of Kentucky
Novel Wind Tunnel Flow-Through Balance Capability for Human Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Testing	Completed	6	Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing	Langley Research Center
Design, Fabrication, and Control of a Robotic Gripper Powered by Compliant and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators	Completed	3	Dexterous Manipulation	University of Nevada-Reno
Integrating Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials and Molecular Dielectrics for Radiation-Hard Non-Volatile Memory	Completed	3	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Northwestern University
Modular Magnetic Mobile Manipulators for Microgravity Environments	Completed	3	Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility	University of Utah
Science-Enabling Atmospheric Entry at Venus	Completed	3	—	Goddard Space Flight 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.