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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 16 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Data Analysis and Instrument Performance Assessment for Regional Carbon Flux Estimates Completed 7 Environment Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Spacesuit Monitor, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Novel Catalysts for HAN/HEHN Based Monopropellants, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Power Platform for the Stretched Lens Array, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Sputter-Resistant Materials for Electric Propulsion, Phase II Completed — Electromagnetic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
PolyRAD Space Radiation Shield for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Microelectronics, Phase II Completed — Protection Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Optical Fiber Microsensors for Monitoring Protein Crystal Growth, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Automated Test Generation in Intelligent Systems (GENISYS), Phase II Completed — Decompression Sickness Mitigation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Digital Conically Scanned L-Band Radar, Phase I Completed — Innovative Antennas Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Spaceflight Urine Analysis System, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Improved Crashworthy Aircraft Seat Design, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Field Emission Vacuum Electronic Devices for Operation above 500 degrees Celsius Completed 3 Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies — 2018-10-10 —
SmallSat Constellation Inter-satellite Link System Simulator Completed 7 Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Differencing Electrostatic Optical Sensor (DEOS), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Metabolic Heat Regenerated Temperature Swing Adsorption for CO2, Thermal and Humidity Control, Phase II Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Nytrox Oxidizers for NanoSat Launch Vehicles, Phase I Completed — Launch Vehicle Propellant Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Highly multiplexed superconducting detectors and readout electronics for balloon-borne and space-based Far-Infrared imaging and polarimetry. Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Model Updating Nonlinear System Identification Toolbox, Phase I Completed — Operations Effectiveness Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Control Instrumentation for Advanced Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerators, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Development of Boundary Vorticity Dynamics Based Closed Loop Flow Control, Phase I Completed — Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Ground Systems Maintenance Anomaly Detection (AGSM) Completed 4 Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High Temperature Polyimides for Resin Transfer Molding Process, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High-throughput Tilt-compensated Interferometer, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Biodegradable Nanocomposites for Advanced Packaging, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Phase I Demonstration of a Heat Pump Loop Thermal Control System, Phase I Completed — Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Design Sensitivities of Response/Fatigue Life of Panels to Thermo-Acoustic Loads, Phase I Completed — Decompression Sickness Mitigation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Silicon Lighweight Mirrors (SLMs) for UV and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Mirrors, Phase II Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Miniaturized instrument to obtain atmospheric profiles of NO, NOx, and NOy, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Broadband Terahertz Frequency Multipliers, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Low Cost/Mass Electrostatically Clean Solar Array (ESCA) System, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Intelligent Fault Tolerant Control of Spacecraft, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Precision Formation Alignment Navigation System (pFANtASY) Completed 3 GN&C System Architectures, Requirements, and Specifications Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Photon-Counting Spectrometer for Elemental Analysis using LIBS, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
UltraWIS, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Chronic Telemetric Biofluid Flow Monitoring Device, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Imaging Spectropolarimetric Sensor for Airborne Retrieval of Aerosol Properties, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Hybrid Piezoelectric/Fiber Optic System for Structural Health Monitoring, Phase I Completed — Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Avionics for Scaled Remotely Operated Vehicles, Phase II Completed — Architectures and Infrastructure Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Single Crystal Piezoelectric Actuators for Membrane Optics, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Nanostructured Cathode Materials for High Energy Density Lithium Batteries, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Photonic Phased Array Antenna, Phase II Completed — Innovative Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
High-Frequency, Low-Noise Nitride-Based Power Transistors Grown on Bulk III-N, Phase I Completed — Power Efficiency Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Rendezvous and Docking Sensor Suite, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Self-Contained Distributed Cooling Module for High Heat Sources, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Innovative Low Power AWG and Data Acquisition for Spaceborne SAR (FDM) Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Laser Gain Media for Wavelength Specific Applications, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Zero Loss Dewar Study Completed 6 Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Towards Miniaturization of Instrumentation for In-Situ Organic Detection: Hands-Off PicoTOF Completed — Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment — 2018-10-10 —
MMW Pyroelectric Sensor Array, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Swift Survey and Kepler Light Curves: Rigorously Probing AGN Accretion Completed — Sample Handling — 2018-10-10 —
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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.
  • Contribution potential is our estimate, not NASA data: an Active project at a low TRL has more room for outside research involvement than a flight-proven one. High = Active + TRL 1-3, Medium = Active + TRL 4-6, Low = Active + TRL 7-9. "Active" does not mean NASA is seeking external contributors or that funding exists — treat this purely as a shortlisting aid.
  • Last updated is TechPort's own lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".
💻 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.