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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 165 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Enhancing Sensitivity by Integrating a Custom Front End Electronics with Nanosensor Printed using 3D Printing Technique, Year 1 Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Surface Spectroscopy Center of Excellence Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Pathway toward high-efficiency III-V/Si tandem solar cells Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Meteorologically Driven Dengue and Chikungunya Forecasts Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Ultrafast Laser material processing, Year 2 Completed 5 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Augmented Reality Electronic Procedures Development and Deep Machine Learning Technology Integration Completed 5 Maintainability and Supportability Johnson Space Center
Advanced Aerogel Scattering Materials for Control of Infrared Radiation Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Glenn Research Center
MEMS for Space Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Predictive modeling of chemical and structural failure of porous ablative materials Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Electro-Magnetic Flow Control to Enable Natural Laminar Flow Wings Project Completed 3 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Nonequilibrium Plasma Applications for Water Purification Supporting Human Spaceflight and Terrestrial Point-of-Use Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Glenn Research Center
In-Space Manufacturing of Astronaut Clothing Completed 3 Habitation Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
In-Situ Consolidation of Triaxially Braided Thermoplastic Composites, Year 1 Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Glenn Research Center
InAs Schottky Diode Based Mixers for Submillimeter-wave Heterodyne Instruments, Year 2 Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Microorganisms that use carbon monoxide to reduce perchlorate at low pressure, high salinity, and low water activity: Applicability to bioremediation of a significant health risk for the exploration of Mars Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Technology Maturation and Flight Validation for Air Launched Liquid Rockets Completed 6 — Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc.
Augmentation of Sensorimotor Adaptability Using Stochastic Resonance Technologies Completed 3 Prevention and Countermeasures Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High-Performance Quantum-Classical Hybrid Deep Generative Modeling Parameterized by Energy-based Models for Flight-Operations Anomaly Detection Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Miniaturized Power Processing Unit Study: A Cubesat Electric Propulsion Technology Enabler Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Diagnostic Demonstration of Particle-Laden Jets Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Photobioreactor Development for Space Applications, Year 2 Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Compact Augmented Spark Impinging Igniters for Liquid Rocket Engines Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Vanderbilt University
Stitched Camera Array for Clearance Monitoring Completed 5 — Johnson Space Center
Advancing the State of the Art for RF GaN HEMT Radiation Hardness Assurance Completed 5 Power Efficiency Goddard Space Flight Center
Affordable Reusable Extreme Temperature Structural Materials Completed — Lightweight Concepts Langley Research Center
Plasma Activated Water from Gases for Resource Production Completed 3 Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems Kennedy Space Center
Aerocapture System as an Enabling Technology for Ice Giants Missions Completed 4 Architecture Design and Analysis Langley Research Center
Scaling the Power of the Astronaut via Workload-aware Robotic Apprenticeship and Explainable Autonomy Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Onboard Adaptive Safe Site Identification System, Year 1 (OASSIS) Completed 3 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Johnson Space Center
Diffractive Lightsails Completed 3 Solar Sails Rochester Institute of Technology
Pellet-Beam Propulsion for Breakthrough Space Exploration Completed — Solar Thermal Propulsion University of California-Los Angeles
CREW HaT: Cosmic Radiation Extended Warding using the Halbach Torus Completed 3 Protection Systems University of Wisconsin-Madison
Modulating Retro-Reflectors: High-speed Asymmetric Laser Communications with Low-Fidelity Pointing Requirements (Phase II): Testing and Risk Reduction, Year 2 Completed 6 Innovative Signal Modulations Ames Research Center
Arc Heater Simulator (ARCHeS) Toolkit Completed — Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Ames Research Center
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Operating on Hydrocarbon Fuel Completed 2 Dynamic Energy Conversion Glenn Research Center
Novel Electrode Material Synthesis and Testing for Molten Regolith Electrolysis Completed 2 In Situ Resource Use Kennedy Space Center
Minimum-Fuel Supersonic Test Trajectories Completed 7 Trajectory Design and Analysis Armstrong Flight Research Center
Vastly Improved Search for Interstellar Asteroids, Year 1 Completed — Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Knudsen-Pump-Based Propulsion for Atmospheric and Martian Exploration Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion University of Pennsylvania
Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs Completed 4 Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Terahertz Heterodyne Spectrometer for In Situ Resource Utilization (THSiRU) Completed 5 Destination Resource Exploration Goddard Space Flight Center
Sweeping Arrays for Film Cooling, Year 2 Completed 4 — Glenn Research Center
SonicSonde: Instrumentation for a Tethered Atmospheric Sensor Suite System, Year 3 Completed 7 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Wing -Tip Vortex Sensor Studies for Formation Flight for Drag Reduction Completed 4 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Design of Laser Communications Module for Small Satellites Completed 3 Lasers Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Solar System Escape Architecture for Revolutionary Science (SSEARS) Completed 3 Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Station Explorer for X-Ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) Completed 7 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Goddard Space Flight Center
Advanced 1.65 Micron Seed Laser for LIDAR Remote Sensing of Methane (Seed Laser) Completed 6 Lasers Freedom Photonics, LLC
Enhanced Ground Control for ISS Robotics Completed 8 Autonomous, Real-Time Command and Control Johnson Space Center
Gaseous Helium Compressor for In-Space and Surface Pneumatic System Resupply Completed 3 Infrastructure Optimization Kennedy 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.