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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 18 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Universal Stabilized Platform for Hyperspectral Sensors, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced microcalorimeter arrays for next-generation x-ray missions Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes National Institute of Standards and Technology 2018-10-10 —
Pixelized Device Control, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Sn-SnSb Filled Carbon Fiber Anodes for High Energy Density Lithium Ion Batteries, Phase II Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
The Development of Differential Deposition for Figure Correction in X-Ray Optics. Completed — Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes — 2018-10-10 —
Development of far-UV-sensitive silicon imaging arrays for compact UV instrumentation Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio 2018-10-10 —
Multi-dimensional fluorescence microscope, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
ACCESS - Absolute Color Calibration Experiment for Standard Stars Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
3D Numerical Realization of FRP Mircrostructure from High-Res X-Ray CT Completed 2 Above-Surface Mobility Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Active Control of Tailored Laminates Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Astrophysics of Stellar Triples Completed — Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials — 2018-10-10 —
BOUNDARY LAYER PUMPED PROPULSION, Phase I Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Affordable Composite Fan Containment Case with Integral Toughening Elements, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Earth Science Data Fusion Workflow Engine Completed 2 High-Performance Processors Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) on Global Hawk Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
Airborne Wide Area Imager for Wildfire Mapping and Detection, Phase I Completed — Range Tracking, Surveillance, and Flight Safety Technologies Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Hand-Held MEMS Sensor for Characterizing the RCRA Metals in Water, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Thermal Protection Test Bed Pathfinder Development Completed 8 TPS Testing Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
A Cooperative Multi-Robot Control Architecture, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Non-Intrusive Radar Sensor for Engine Vibration Monitoring, Phase I Completed — Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Production of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Catalytic Disproportionation ..., Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Liquid Crystal on Silicon Optical Phased Arrays, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Mini-Cell Ion Mobility Spectrometer for In Situ Chemical Analysis, Phase II Completed — Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A 20K Cooler for the Spaceport of Liquid Hydrogen, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Sample Preparation and Processing for Nanopore Life Detection Instruments Completed 2 Sample Handling Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
SiC Avalanche Photodiodes and Arrays, Phase II Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Techniques, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
BrahmsVE: Proof of Concept for Human/Agent Intelligent Augmentation, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
PIP/MI Matrix SiC/SiC CMCs, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
An Ultra-Lightweight, High Performance Carbon-Carbon Space Radiator, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Micromachining Techniques to Enhance X-ray Microcalorimeter Array Fabrication, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Picosats for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Technology Demonstration, Phase I Completed — Logistics Management Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Packaging for Critical Angle X-ray Transmission Gratings Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Energy Efficient Cryogenic Transfer Line with Magnetic Suspension, Phase II Completed — In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
SATS- Lean Technology Design (LTD), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Performance VCSEL for 1550 nm Optical Network, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Integrated Component and System Analyses of Instabilities in Test Stands, Phase I Completed — Flight Performance and Analysis Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Compact, scalable deformable mirror systems for space-based imaging of exo-earths Completed — Control Force and Torque Actuators — 2018-10-10 —
Windows to the Past: Using Gravitational Telescopes to Study our Cosmic Origins Completed — Software Modeling and Model Checking — 2018-10-10 —
A 20K Cooler for the Spaceport of Liquid Hydrogen, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Concept for Tether Current Collection Using Grid -Sphere Electrodes, Phase I Completed — Electromagnetic Tethers Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
An Advance Open Architecture Astrometric Alignment Sensor for Distributed & Non-Distributed GN&C Systems Completed 3 Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Helium Loop Heat Pipe for Large Area Cryocooling, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Regional Climate Model Evaluation System Completed 5 Semantic Technologies NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
Collaborative Outbound Taxi Metering for Environmental Benefits, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
N-2 Contingency Algorithms for Autonomous Traffic Safety Monitoring Completed 1 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry for Rocket Plumes, Phase II Completed — Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Carbon based aerogel composites for radiation shielding, Phase II Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Graphene based Photonics Devices for Remote Sensing Applications Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Electro-mechanical actuators and tunable reflectors based on carbon nanotubes, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
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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.
  • Contribution potential is our estimate, not NASA data: an Active project at a low TRL has more room for outside research involvement than a flight-proven one. High = Active + TRL 1-3, Medium = Active + TRL 4-6, Low = Active + TRL 7-9. "Active" does not mean NASA is seeking external contributors or that funding exists — treat this purely as a shortlisting aid.
  • Last updated is TechPort's own lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".
💻 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.