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 172 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Material Degradation During the Stressed Oxidation of CMCs	Completed	3	Materials for Extreme Environments	University of California-Santa Barbara
Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment (PHLOTE)	Completed	3	Above-Surface Mobility	Langley Research Center
Large Area Topological 2D Materials for Spintronics and Energy Efficient Electronics	Completed	3	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Yale University
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Capability in Space	Completed	—	Sample Handling	Johnson Space Center
Plant-Based Robotics Systems (PBRS-ACO )	Completed	6	Other Robotic Systems	Lockheed Martin Inc.
Anti-Phase Vortex Reduction Control for Rotor Noise Suppression	Completed	4	Aeroacoustics	Ames Research Center
Repeatability Evaluation of Direct-Write Printing on Flexible and Three-Dimensional Geometries, Year 4	Completed	3	Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Organics and Biological Scanner (OrBis): Standoff, fast, large area line scanner for non-destructive, sensitive, detection of biological and organic materials	Completed	3	Planetary Protection	Langley Research Center
Electrochemical membrane reactors for in-situ resource utilization of wastewater in space	Completed	3	Water Recovery and Management	Stanford University
Logistics Reduction: Advanced Clothing System (ACS) (LR-ACS)	Completed	4	Habitation Systems	Johnson Space Center
Correlated Electromagnetic Levitation Actuator, Year 2	Completed	2	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Pluto Hop, Skip, and Jump	Completed	3	Aerodynamic Decelerators	Global Aerospace Corporation
Raising the Technical Readiness of Germanium Immersion Gratings for a Space-based High-resolution Infrared Spectrometer	Completed	5	Optical Components	Ames Research Center
Improvements and Optimization of Analytical Guidance Laws for Low-Thrust Trajectory Design	Completed	3	Relative Navigation Aids	University of Maryland-College Park
Modeling and Development of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors	Completed	3	Detector Development	California Institute of Technology
Precision Spectroscopic Calibration and Next-Generation Millimeter-Wave Spectrometers	Active	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	University of Chicago
3-D Printed Thrust Takeout Structure Challenge, Year 1	Completed	3	Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies	Stennis Space Center
Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat	Completed	2	Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management	Texas A & M University-College Station
Polymide Aerogel as Wire Insulation	Completed	6	—	Glenn Research Center
Boron/Graphite Hybrid Composites	Completed	4	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Rad-Tolerant Neuromorphic Processor (RTP)	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Physics-informed Modeling of Multi-nozzle Plume Physics with Quantifiable Uncertainties from Supersonic Retropropulsion Tests	Completed	4	Supersonic Retropropulsion	Stanford University
Rapidly Deployable and Robust Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Structural Materials	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Development of Physics-Based Numerical Models for Uncertainty Quantification of Selective Laser Melting Processes	Completed	4	Manufacturing Processes	University of California-Davis
Propagation Controlled Solid Fuel-Oxidant Reactions for the Generation of Harvestable Heat	Completed	4	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	University of Central Florida
Time-Synchronized Beacons for Relative UAV Position Determination	Completed	2	—	Langley Research Center
Radiation Pressure on Tunable Optical Metamaterials for Propulsion and Steering without Moving Parts	Completed	3	Lightweight Concepts	University of Maryland-College Park
Nanocoatings for Wicking of Low Viscosity Cryogens, Year 1	Completed	3	—	Kennedy Space Center
Solar Surfing	Completed	3	Thermal Protection Materials	Kennedy Space Center
Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs	Completed	3	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Biomaterials out of thin air: in situ, on-demand printing of advanced biocomposites	Completed	3	Lightweight Structural Materials	Ames Research Center
R2 Cognitive Computing	Completed	6	Learning and Adaptation	Johnson Space Center
Electrostatic Levitation Characterization of Regolith Simulants and IL-Derived Additive Manufacturing Alloys	Completed	2	Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials	Marshall Space Flight Center
Versatile Manipulation for Assistive Free-Flyers	Completed	4	Dexterous Manipulation	Columbia University in the City of New York
Advanced Scintillating Fiber Technology in High Energy Neutron Spectrometers for Exploration	Completed	4	Monitoring Technology	University of Alabama in Huntsville
Increasing scientific access and technology reliability through multi-modal surface and subsurface legged mobility	Active	2	Surface Mobility	University of California-Berkeley
High Hydrogen Content Nanostructured Polymer Radiation Protection System	Completed	4	Protection Systems	University of Houston
Edge Machine Learning Predictive Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Operations	Completed	5	Anomaly Detection	Stennis Space Center
INFLAME optics analysis for direct net flux measurement in the visible spectrum	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Langley Research Center
Ultrasensitive Paper-based Biosensors for In-flight Quantification of Key Biomarkers in Saliva	Completed	3	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Washington University in St Louis
Interpretable Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects	Completed	3	Behavior and Intent Prediction	University of Southern California
Quantifying the Value of Resilience in Long-Duration Space Systems	Completed	3	Model-Based Systems Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrodeionization Salt Removal from Water	Completed	4	Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems	Kennedy Space Center
Understanding and Mitigating the Charging Behavior of Next Generation Complex and Active Spacecraft	Completed	3	Behavior and Intent Prediction	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Small Satellite MagLev 3DOF Test Platform	Completed	—	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Johnson Space Center
Shape Memory Alloy Cryogenic Transfer Coupling for Space Depot Docking Operations Project	Completed	2	—	Glenn Research Center
Integrated Control Electronics for Adjustable X-Ray Optics	Completed	4	Optical Components	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration	Completed	3	Below-Surface Mobility	Ames Research Center
Producing methane and oxygen on Mars using proton-conducting ceramics	Completed	3	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Colorado School of Mines
Hierarchical Composites with Nanostructured Reinforcement for Multifunctional Aerospace Structures	Completed	3	Special Materials	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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.