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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20,850 projects harvested so far — page 18 of 417.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Combining Discrete Element Modeling, Finite Element Analysis, and Experimental Calibrations for Modeling of Granular Material Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Kennedy Space Center
Optical Clock Technology for Coherent Optimetrics and Time Frequency Transfer	Completed	2	Optimetrics	Goddard Space Flight Center
Acoustic Emission Sensor for Spacecraft Applications, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Langley Research Center
Enhanced Blackbody Sensors for the Quench Module Insert, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Motor Controller for Extreme Environments Based on SiGe, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Glenn Research Center
Spaceport Compatible Optical Sensor Suite for Hazardous Gas Detection, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Kennedy Space Center
STO-2: Support for 4th Year Operations, Recovery, and Science (JPL co-I)	Completed	7	Architecture and Design of Software systems	—
Strategic Materials for Far-IR, CMB, and VISIR Kinetic Inductance Detectors	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Regolith Processing System (LRPS), Phase I	Completed	—	Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation	Kennedy Space Center
New High-Barrier Polymer Nanocomposite Food Packaging Enables 5-Year Shelf-Life, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Capillarity Driven Flow Of Propellant Liquids In Colloidal Satellite Thrusters, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Severless Traveling Wave Tube for High Data Rate Space Communications, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Improving Interactivity and Interoperability in the Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES)	Completed	6	Intelligent Data Understanding	NASA Headquarters
Inflatable Air Beam Standard Interface Connector	Completed	2	Docking and Berthing Mechanisms and Fixtures	Johnson Space Center
Direct Metal Technology for Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping, Phase I	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	Marshall Space Flight Center
VCHP Radiators for Lunar and Martian Environments, Phase I	Completed	—	Heat Transport	Johnson Space Center
Persistant Launch Range Surveillance, Phase I	Completed	—	Range Tracking, Surveillance, and Flight Safety Technologies	—
Using XML for Workflow Management, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Miniature Guinier X-ray Diffraction Instrument for Planetary Exploration.	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	SETI Institute
Conjugated Polymers as Lightweight, Efficient Photovoltaic Devices, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Low Temperature Regenerative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells	Glenn Research Center
Development of Large Area (100x100 mm) photon counting UV detectors	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	—
Shock Layer Radiation	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Ames Research Center
Active Skin for Turbulent Drag Reduction, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Langley Research Center
SiCf/SiC Composites w/ Variable Fiber Form for Monolithic SiC Optical Instrument, Phase I	Completed	—	Decompression Sickness Mitigation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Rugged High-Vacuum System for a Spacecraft Mass Spectrometer, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
A Super Cooled, Non-toxic, Non-flammable Phase Change Material Thermal Pack for Portable Life Support Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Johnson Space Center
GRACE-II Small Satellite Study	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	NASA Headquarters
Application of Robust Laser Interferometer to Fire Prevention, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Wire-line Analysis Tool for Subsurface Observations of Northern-ice-sheets: The WATSON Project	Completed	—	Engine Icing	—
Improved Trajectory Search Capability for Multi-Rendezvous and Flyby Missions (NELLS)	Completed	2	Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design	Goddard Space Flight Center
The Constant Force Resistive Exercise Unit (CFREU) for Multi-Functional Exercise, Phase I	Completed	—	Long-Duration Health	Johnson Space Center
Fast Event Recognition for the ATHENA Wide Field Imager	Completed	3	Optical Components	—
Lab Astro for Studies of Fe-Group Nucleosynthesis	Completed	1	Detectors and Focal Planes	—
Widely Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Local Oscillator for Infrared Heterodyne Earth Atmospheric Remote Spectrometer (IHEARS)	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	NASA Headquarters
Certification of the COTS Engine and Naturalistic Flight Deck Systems for the Next Generation of Small Aircraft, Phase II	Completed	—	Engine Icing	Langley Research Center
Pulsed Electrogasdynamic Thruster for Attitude Control and Orbit Maneuver, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Ames Research Center
AROMA: ADVANCED RESOLUTION ORGANIC MOLECULE ANALYZER	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
High Sensitivity Indium Phosphide Based Avalanche Photodiode Focal Plane Arrays, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Johnson Space Center
Blade Vibration Measurement System for Characterization of Closely Spaced Modes and Mistuning, Phase II	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	Glenn Research Center
Ultrasonic Tape Laminated Cryogenic Tank Structures Processed Outside Autoclave, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Structural Health Monitoring with Fiber Bragg Grating and Piezo Arrays, Phase I	Completed	—	Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Hydrogen-Rich, Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites for Radiation Shielding, Phase I	Completed	—	Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power	Langley Research Center
X-ray Computed Tomography Image Quality Indicator (IQI) Development (CT IQI)	Completed	3	Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Receive System for Multiple Payload Swarm (RSMPS)	Completed	4	Radio Frequency	Wallops Flight Facility
Rich Annotation of Images, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Distributed Cluster Based Architecture for Constellations, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Space Based Emergency Medical Procedures Using Simulation Technology, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Search for cosmic ultra-high energy neutrinos with ANITA-IV	Completed	—	Warm Gas	—
Intelligent Procedure Tracking and Assistance, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	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.

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Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.