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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 178 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Optical Mining of Asteroids, Moons, and Planets to Enable Sustainable Human Exploration and Space Industrialization Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Trans Astronautica Corporation
Luminescence Cryothermometry, Year 2 Completed 4 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Glenn Research Center
The Keystone of Lunar Infrastructure: Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing Completed 4 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Rotary Motion Extended Array Synthesis (R-MXAS) Completed 2 Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis Leidos Inc
Cyclic Loading of Mouse Vertebra as a Measurement of Bone Quality to Predict Risk of Fracture Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis University of California-Berkeley
Large Propellant Tank Cryo-Cooler (LPTC) Project Completed 6 Launch Vehicle Propellant Stennis Space Center
Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization (Arc Mining) Completed 2 In Situ Resource Use The University of Texas at El Paso
Optimizing vegetation management to improve the resilience of the electrical power system to extreme weather Completed 4 Collaborative Science and Engineering StormImpact Inc.
Study of Detonation Wave Attenuation in Two-Phase Flows Completed 3 Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion Purdue University-Main Campus
Ultra-Low-Noise FIR Detectors for Space-based Astrophysics Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Adaptable Lunar Lander Solar Array Systems (ALLSAS) Completed — — Langley Research Center
Aqua Factorem: Ultra Low-Energy Lunar Water Extraction Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation University of Central Florida
Rotorcraft Optimization for Advancement of Mars Exploration (ROAMX) Completed 3 Other Propulsion Systems Ames Research Center
Instantaneous Clarity of Ambient eNvironment Capability (ICAN-C) Completed 5 Optical Components —
Broad-band Space Structure Tension Damper Completed — Tests, Tools, and Methods Marshall Space Flight Center
A Novel Navigational Architecture utilizing Joint Doppler and Ranging for Minimal Infrastructure Localization on other Planets Completed 3 Relative Navigation Aids Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Spacesuit Evaporator-Absorber-Radiator (SEAR) Project, Year 2 Completed — Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center
Development of Inflation Probe Technologies for the Advanced ACT Experiment Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Pennsylvania
Outpost Cargo Ferry: A Rapid Cargo Downmass Vehicle Completed 3 Other Exploration Destination Systems Outpost Technologies Corporation
An Advanced Thermal Radiator for Global Lunar Heat Rejection Completed — Heat Rejection and Storage Marshall Space Flight Center
Radiative heating attenuation through heat shield doping: A multi-scale approach from ab initio to CFD Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mechanoluminescent Materials for Structural Health Monitoring Completed 4 Special Materials Armstrong Flight Research Center
Variable Geometry Radiators Using Shape Memory Alloys Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Texas A & M University-College Station
High-Fidelity Combustion Modeling for LOX/Methane In-Space Propulsion Systems Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion Stanford University
HELIOS: Heterogeneous Laser Transmitter Integration for Low SWaP Completed 3 Lasers University of California-Santa Barbara
Supporting Pre-Phase A Human System Integration for Future Exploration Class Missions Completed — Human-System Performance Modeling Langley Research Center
Visual/nlR Light Comm for “Drop-In” Research Systems Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Lightweight and Robust Exploration Space Suit (LARESS) Completed 4 Portable Life Support System Johnson Space Center
Material response reconstruction of ablative TPS using accurate boundary layer modeling Completed 4 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Kentucky
Synthetic Biology and Microbial Fuel Cells: Towards Self-Sustaining Life Support Systems Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Ames Research Center
Lightweight Surface Manipulation System (LSMS) AutoNomy capabilities Development for surface Operations and construction (LANDO) Completed 5 Robotic Systems Langley Research Center
Computationally Informed Optimization of Polymer-Coated Microparticles for Reversibly Assembling Materials Completed — Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Ames Research Center
Earth-to-Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Noise Reduction via Entangled Photon Time Correlation Completed 3 Quantum Communications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nanosized Linde Type A Zeolites Providing Water-Selective Transport Pathways Through Chlorine Tolerant Polymers in Molecular Sieve Nanocomposite (MoSIN) Membranes for Reclamation of Impaired Waters Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Arizona State University-Tempe
Development of Multi-chroic Millimeter-wave Polarization Sensitive Detector Arrays Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Feasibility Study for a 50 K to 4.5 K Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Semantic Mapping and Safe Autonomous Navigation for Intra-Vehicular Robots in Microgravity Completed 3 Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis University of Pennsylvania
Stability Analysis of Spacecraft Motion in the Vicinity of Asteroids Completed 3 Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools University of Colorado Boulder
Space Mission Human Reliability Analysis, Year 1 (HRA) Completed 4 Human Factors Engineering Johnson Space Center
Ion Mobility Spectrometry for Water Monitoring Completed 3 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Johnson Space Center
Mechanical Metamaterial Lattices by Direct Methods Completed 3 Lightweight Concepts Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Digital Emulation of NASA Wireless Communications Infrastructure Completed 3 Flight and Ground Systems Glenn Research Center
Reverse-Ephemeris Lunar Navigation System for Long-Distance Route Determination Completed — Revolutionary PNT Technologies Langley Research Center
Calorimetry Measurements of Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) Chamber Heat Flux Completed 4 Propulsion Systems University of Alabama in Huntsville
Low-Cost CubeSat for Active Removal of Sizable Space Debris Utilizing a Mothership Architecture Completed 3 Orbital Debris Mitigation Turion Space Corp.
SmartSuit: A Hybrid, Intelligent, and Highly Mobile EVA Spacesuit for Next Generation Exploration Missions Completed 2 Pressure Garment Texas A & M University-College Station
Compact Robust Integrated PPM Laser Transceiver Chip Set with High Sensitivity, Efficiency, and Re-Configurability Completed 4 Quantum Communications Northwestern University
Certification of Additive Manufacturing Processing Parameters through Physics-Based Predictive Simulation of Process-Defects-Microstructure Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Ohio State University-Main Campus
Catalyst Renewal Electroplating: Demonstration, Investigation, and Testing (CREDIT) Completed 4 Atmosphere Revitalization Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel thermal management and life support technologies for planetary spacesuits Completed 3 Portable Life Support System 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.