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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 169 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Journey to the Center of Icy Moons Completed 3 Below-Surface Mobility Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Development and Validation of a Physics-Based Model for Deployable Hypersonic Decelerator Flexible Thermal Protection Systems Completed 3 Thermal Protection Systems Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
The Fabrication of Ultra-Light Full-Shell Replicated x-Ray Optics by 3D-Printing, Year 1 Completed 2 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Additive Manufacturing of Thermal Protection System (AM-TPS) Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Johnson Space Center
Thermal and Mechanical Optimization of Structural Thermal Insulation Composites Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
SCEPS In Space - Non-Radioisotope Power Systems for Sunless Solar System Exploration Missions Completed 3 Below-Surface Mobility Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Heaterless Hollow Cathode Ignition and Operation Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Colorado State University-Fort Collins
F-15 Aero Tow Vehicle Development, Year 1 Completed 4 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Superconducting Readout Circuits for SNSPD Arrays, Year 1 Completed 3 Detector Development Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Engineered Hybrid 2D/1D Material Foam - Polymer Composites via Freeze-Drying Completed 3 Thermal Protection Materials Florida International University
Glider Swarm Sensor Distribution Study, Year 1 Completed 3 Destination Resource Exploration Armstrong Flight Research Center
Holographic Optical Method for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (HOMES) Completed 2 Mirror Systems 3DeWitt LLC
Ionic Salt Cocrystals as Green Propellants Completed 2 Solids University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Predicting deformation and stress as a function of additive manufacturing process parameters for Europa drill Completed 2 Computational Materials Ames Research Center
SAGE IV Pathfinder Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Automating Task Network (TN) Generation with Goal Dictionaries, Year 1 Completed 3 Reasoning and Acting Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Physics Based Vision Systems for Robotic Manipulation Completed 3 Sensing for Robotic Systems Carnegie Mellon University
Cloud Computing for Science Data Processing in Support of Emergency Response Project Completed 3 Public Cloud Supercomputers Stennis Space Center
In-situ temperature, velocity, and density measurements in high-speed flows using burst-mode filtered Rayleigh scattering Completed 3 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Purdue University-Main Campus
Photonic Integrated Circuits for Adaptive Ranging and Detection (PICARD) Completed 5 Vehicle Systems Langley Research Center
Crystal Shielding for Space Radiation – 2nd year renewal Completed 3 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Langley Research Center
Adaptable Single Active Loop Thermal Control System (TCS) for Future Space Missions Completed 4 Heat Rejection and Storage Purdue University-Main Campus
Electrostatically Enhanced Microbe Collection in the Troposphere and Stratosphere Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Kennedy Space Center
Automated Task Monitoring, Feedback and Training for Critical Missions Completed 3 Human-System Performance Modeling University of Wisconsin-Madison
Laser Processed Heat Exchangers Completed 4 — Johnson Space Center
Commanding and Planning for Robots in Space Operations Completed 3 Execution and Control Rice University
ZnO Piezoelectric Nanowires for Use in a Self-Powered Structural Health Monitoring Device for Fiber-Reinforced Composites Uploading Attachment Instructions Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Exploration of Sintered Aluminum for In-Space Manufacturing Applications Completed 3 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Venus Surface Sample Fetch Vehicle Rendezvous and Retrieval Completed 4 Robotic Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Safe and Reliable Li-Metal Anode Technology to Enable Next Generation High Energy Battery Completed 2 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Poly(ionic liquid)-ionic liquid membranes reinforced by graphene sheets for CO2 capture and conversion in microgravity Completed 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Case Western Reserve University
Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration Completed 2 Below-Surface Mobility Ames Research Center
Acoustic Signatures of Helium Abundance in the Gas Giants Completed 4 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Ames Research Center
Development of III-V/Si Multijunction Space Photovoltaics Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Ohio State University-Main Campus
Tractor Beams for Optical Micromanipulation Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors New York University
New Lithographic Techniques for X-Ray Spectroscopy Completed 3 Optical Components Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Radiation Protection and Architecture Utilizing High Temperature Superconducting Magnets Completed 2 Protection Systems Johnson Space Center
Multiple SmallSats Cross-correlation Localization Technique Completed 4 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Marshall Space Flight Center
Ultrafast Lasers for Flight Instrument Fabrication and Packaging, Year 3 Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Asteroid Surface Resource Characterization through Distributed Plasma Analysis of Meteoroid Impact Ejecta Completed 4 Destination Resource Exploration Stanford University
High Efficiency Powertrain for Hybrid Aircraft (HEPHA) Completed 6 Hybrid Electric Systems Ampaire Inc
Crew Health Countermeasures (CHC) Systems Capability Leadership Team (SCLT) Completed 3 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
In-Space Brazing for ISAM Applications Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center
Biomedical Monitoring by a Novel Noncontact Radio Frequency Technology, Year 2 Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Kinetic models of the facility effects and beam neutralization for high-power electric propulsion systems Completed 2 Electrostatic Propulsion Stanford University
Trajectory Design in a Combined Low-Thrust Multi-Body Environment Completed 3 Trajectory Design and Analysis Purdue University-Main Campus
Particle filter Simulation and Analysis Enabling Non-Traditional Navigation Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Developing ExoPlanetSat: Finding Earth-like Planets with a Small Budget Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Graphene Field Effect Transistors for Radiation Detection Completed 6 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Computational Materials/Engineering Enabling Interstellar Probe Feasibility Completed 2 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Ames Research 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.