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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 171 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Long-Term Rotational Dynamics of Defunct Earth-Orbiting Satellites Completed 3 Orbital Debris Characterization University of Colorado Boulder
High Thrust & High ISP Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) Grooved Ring Fuel Element (GRFE) Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Plasma Rapid Oxidation Technique for Extending Component Tenability (PROTECT) Completed 3 Environment Testing Kennedy Space Center
Kilometer Space Telescope (KST) Completed 3 Structures and Antennas Raytheon Company
Additively Manufactured Hermetically Sealed Isolation Valve Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Goddard Space Flight Center
Flexible Matrix Composites for Passive Flutter Suppression Completed 2 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) Completed 4 Ground, Test, and Surface Systems Langley Research Center
Field Demonstration of the Ground to Space Laser Calibration: Illumination of NASA's Earth Observing Sensors Completed 2 Lasers Langley Research Center
Green PCB Remediation from Sediment Systems (GPRSS) Completed 4 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation Kennedy Space Center
Low Divergence Hall Effect Thruster to Simplify Spacecraft Integration Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Glenn Research Center
High Pressure Plasma-assisted Combustion Completed 4 Hybrids Glenn Research Center
Rapid Electrochemical Detection and Identification of Microbiological and Chemical Contaminants for Manned Spaceflight Completed 5 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Johnson Space Center
Surface Decontamination and Biofilm Eradication using Focused Microwave Energy Completed 8 Remediation Johnson Space Center
Fracture Behaviors of Additive Manufactured Alloys Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Micro Thruster Development with Green Propellant at mN and microN levels Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Electrodynamic Dust Shield for Active Dust Mitigation of Thermal Radiators Completed 5 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Kennedy Space Center
Bio-Inspired Seal Technology Completed 2 — Glenn Research Center
Development of a highly throttlable, bipropellant (Xe-Kr) Hall thruster and investigations into the newly discovered oscillation modes in magnetically shielded thrusters Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Sutter Ultra: Breakthrough Space Telescope Mission Finds 350X More Asteroids Enabling Asteroid Mining, Human Exploration and Terminal Defense Against Incoming Asteroids (SUTTER) Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Trans Astra Corporation
Technologies to Enable EDL of Smallsat Science and Exploration Payloads Completed 3 Architecture Design and Analysis University of Colorado Boulder
Real-time Stitched Video for Contextual Path Planning Completed 5 — Johnson Space Center
Pressure Sensitive Paint Applied to Flexible Models Completed 3 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Ames Research Center
GNSS Sub-cm Real-Time Precise Point Positioning, Year 1 (GNSS SCRIPPS*) Completed 3 Software Development, Engineering, and Integrity Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Environment Dust Testing Technique Development Completed — Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Johnson Space Center
Autocode from Simulink to Real Time Embedded LINUx on ARM Completed 5 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Increased Energy Density of Solid Sate Supercapacitors for Habitats Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Marshall Space Flight Center
Mission Design Tool for Automated Missed-Thrust Design with Multiple Outages Completed 3 Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design Purdue University-Main Campus
Lunar Surface Mixed Reality Trainer YEAR 3 Completed 7 Training Johnson Space Center
Realizing Practical Nitinol Locomotion Project Completed 6 Offline Element Processing Stennis Space Center
A Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Autonomous Navigation for Exploration on Icy Moons Completed 4 Robot Navigation and Path Planning Carnegie Mellon University
Ionic Fluid Optics for the Next Great Science Flagship Completed 3 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Goddard Space Flight Center
Dynamics of Low Velocity Landings on Moons of the Outer Solar System Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Colorado Boulder
Mechanically dynamic nanocomposite aerogels using cellulose nanocrystals Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Generative Design of Thermal Management Strategies for In-Space Detonation Propulsion assessed by Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Completed 2 Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion The University of Texas at San Antonio
Simulated Inspection Mechanics for Artificial Intelligence Defect Detection (SIM-AID) Completed 2 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Langley Research Center
In-Situ Water Vapor Probe for a Robot Arm-Mounted, Compact Water Vapor Analyzer Completed 3 — Johnson Space Center
Advanced Nuclear Fuels for More Capable and Sustainable Exploration Completed 3 Dynamic Energy Conversion Ohio State University-Main Campus
Arc Jet Exposure of Ablative and Non-Oxide CMC TPS for Planetary Probe and Sample Return Applications Completed 5 — The Boeing Company
Radiation Tolerant, High Capacity Non-Volatile Memory Completed 3 High-Performance Memories Johnson Space Center
Particle Impact Simulation and Ignition Prediction Year 1 of 3 Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Johnson Space Center
Super Micro-Cool: Forced Boiling in a Micro-channel Pumped Fluid Loop Completed 4 Heat Transport Johnson Space Center
Mid Infrared Laser Sources for Remote Sensing, Year 4 Completed 2 Lasers Langley Research Center
Post-Processing-Free 3D Printing for Low Mass, Multifunctional Polymer Composites Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Texas A & M University-College Station
An Innovative High Fidelity Multidisciplinary Computational Framework for Parachute Inflation Dynamics Completed 4 Aerodynamic Decelerators Stanford University
Cryogenic Tesla Valve Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion Kennedy Space Center
A New Ablative Heat Shield Sensor Suite Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Robust Optimal Control of Spacecraft Translational-Rotational Coupled Motion under Uncertainty Active 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Purdue University-Main Campus
Borescope Artificial Intelligence (BAI) Completed 6 Propulsion Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Automating Task Network (TN) Generation with Goal Dictionaries, Year 2 Completed 3 Reasoning and Acting Technologies 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.