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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.

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

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 164 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Large Vehicle Landing Surface Interaction (Lpad-ACO) Completed 4 Touchdown Systems SpaceX
A Solar Powered, Ceramic Oxygen Concentrator Project Completed 3 — Johnson Space Center
Sky Based Background Oriented Schlieren for Flight Test, Year 2 Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Light Weight Multifunctional Planetary Probe for Extreme Environment Exploration and Locomotion Completed 3 Aerodynamic Decelerators Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
OWIS: Orbital Welding in Space Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Goddard Space Flight Center
Multi Electrode Shock Attenuation Model Design Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Rocket Noise Reduction Using Nozzle Flow Conditioning Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Glenn Research Center
Virtual Reality NASA Storytelling Completed 4 Flight Computing and Avionics Armstrong Flight Research Center
Production and Hot Hydrogen Testing of Molybdenum Matrix Cermet Fuels for NTP Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Ice Tanker Capture and Transport of Extracted Polar Water Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Glenn Research Center
Raman Life Detection Instrument Development for Icy Worlds Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Explainable and Verifiable Models for Human-Robot Teaming Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction University of Rochester
High Spatial and Temporal Frequency Active Surfaces for Diffraction Controlled Telescopes Completed 4 Mirror Systems California Institute of Technology
NiTi60 as A Bearing Material in Cryo-Vacuum Conditions Completed 2 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Florida State University
In Situ Oxygen Generation from CO2 under Benign Conditions, Year 2 Completed 2 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Machine Learning Model for Oxygen Diffusion in Silica Thermally Grown Oxide Layers as a Function of Additive Content for Environmental Barrier Coating Life Modeling Completed 2 Coatings Glenn Research Center
Additive Manufacture of Dispersion Strengthened Refractory Metal Hollow Cathode Tubes Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Glenn Research Center
Flight Demonstration of Novel Atmospheric Satellite Concept Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach
Modeling, Testing, and Simulation of Heavy-Ion Basic Mechanisms in Silicon Carbide Power Devices Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Vanderbilt University
Addressing key challenges to mapping sub-cm orbital debris in LEO via plasma soliton detection Active — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems University of Maryland-College Park
Optimization, Design, and Demonstration of 1 kW Stirling Controller using Capacitor-based Power Factor Correction Completed 4 Dynamic Energy Conversion Glenn Research Center
Optically Coupled Laser and Ultra-cold Particle Beam for Breakthrough In-space Propulsion Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Texas A & M University-College Station
Edge Machine Learning Predictive Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Operations Completed 5 Anomaly Detection Stennis Space Center
Reliable Ignition of LOX Methane Propellants in Thermal Vacuum Environment Completed 5 Cryogenic Propulsion Johnson Space Center
Autonomous Operations at Small Solar System Bodies Completed 4 Onboard Navigation Algorithms University of Colorado Boulder
Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) Completed 7 Solar Sails Marshall Space Flight Center
Logistics Reduction: Multipurpose Crew Transfer Bag (LR-MCTB) Completed 7 Logistics Management Johnson Space Center
Development of Machine Learning Protocols Towards the Non-destructive Evaluation of Polymeric Cable Insulations Through Colorimetry Completed 3 Reliability and Sustainment Glenn Research Center
A Range Resolved CO2 Backscattering Profile Measurement Technique for Ground Calibration Completed 3 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Photonics chip laser metrology system Completed — Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Application of Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Processing for Joining of Shape Memory Alloy Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Robot Learning and Autonomy with Reduced Supervision through Active Reward Design Completed 3 Learning and Adaptation University of California-Berkeley
Low Creep/Low Relaxation Materials for Deployable Structures, Year 1 Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center
Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Space Studies Institute
Design, Test and Control of a Magnetorheological Universal Gripper for Use On-Orbit Completed 4 Grappling Technologies University of Maryland-College Park
Rapid Prototyping of Active Microwave Metasurfaces by Inkjet Printing Completed 2 Electronics Ames Research Center
Laser Analysis for Surface Preparation of Composite Bonded Joints Completed 4 Design and Certification Methods Ames Research Center
Low-Power Real-Time Planning for Robots in Uncertain Environments Active 2 Execution and Control Rice University
Development of TWT 2nd Harmonic for Potential Use as Millimeter Wave Beacon Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Astrobee Completed 7 Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility Ames Research Center
A Sample Delivery System for Planetary Missions Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Lunar Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO): A Breakthrough for Lunar Exploration & Industry Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Trans Astronautica Corporation
Weather Hazard Alert and Awareness Technology Radiation Radiosonde (WHAATRR) Glider Completed 2 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Armstrong Flight Research Center
An Estimation Algorithm for Detecting and Reconstructing Optimal Maneuvers from Measurement Residuals Completed 3 Onboard Attitude and Attitude Rate Estimation Algorithms University of Colorado Boulder
Advanced Fluidic Architecture for Compact Electronic Systems Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Glenn Research Center
Optical Transmitter Terminal for Selective RF High Frequency Bans, Year 1 Completed 3 Optimetrics Glenn Research Center
Rapid assessment of AM metal performance through dislocation physics and machine learning Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Mobility Evaluation of a Planetary Rover with Gyroscopic Force Redistribution Control Completed 3 Surface Mobility University of California-Berkeley
Spacecraft Formation Flight by Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) Completed 4 GN&C Marshall Space Flight Center
Breakthrough Distributed Power Architecture for In Situ Lunar Missions (BDPA) Canceled 6 Distribution and Transmission 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.