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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 184 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
A Densely Sampled Integral Field Spectrometer to Enable Space-Based Millimeter-Wave Line Intensity Mapping Surveys Active 2 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Chicago
Machine Learning Accelerated Physics-Based Modeling for Defect Mitigation in Metal Additive Manufacturing Completed 3 Computational Materials Langley Research Center
Robotic In-Situ Surface Exploration System (RISES) Completed 4 Destination Resource Exploration West Virginia University
Development and Characterization of a Ruthenium-Based Monolithic Metal Foam Catalyst Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Simulant and Regolith Wear Test Capability for Dust Mitigation Completed 2 Mechanism-Life-Extension Systems Glenn Research Center
Compact Flexible Lower Body Negative Pressure Device for Integrated Exercise Microgravity and Fluid Shift Countermeasure Completed 3 Long-Duration Health University of California-San Diego
Comprehensive Modeling of the Effects of Hazardous Asteroids Mitigation Techniques Completed 4 Integrated Systems Safety University of Colorado Boulder
PSI Ejecta Kinetic Energy Estimating Radar (PEKEER) Completed 2 Touchdown Systems Kennedy Space Center
Enhanced Electrode Performance for Energy Storage Applications Enabled by Direct Write Additive Manufacturing Completed 2 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Glenn Research Center
Extraction and Capture of Water from Martian Soil Completed 7 — Glenn Research Center
Space Environmental Electrical Power Subsystem (SEEPS) Completed 3 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Stanford University
Low Thrust Trajectory Optimization in Cislunar and Translunar Space Completed 3 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination University of Colorado Boulder
Vast Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Mission Concept Study (SSPICY Vast) Completed 4 Orbital Debris Characterization Vast Space
Orbiting Rainbows: Optical Manipulation of Aerosols and the Beginnings of Future Space Construction Completed 2 Atmospheric Characterization and Mitigation Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Demonstration of a High Power Density Thermal Management System for Motors, Inverters, and Battery Modules Completed 4 Aero Propulsion Glenn Research Center
Computational design of additively manufactured functionally graded materials for structural applications Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Physics-Informed Neural Network for Next-Gen Electric Aircraft Completed 3 State Estimation and Monitoring Ames Research Center
Computational design of carbon nanotube network materials and polymer matrix nanocomposites Completed 4 Computational Materials University of Virginia-Main Campus
hMSCs Cultured on Plant-Derived Tissue Engineering Extracellular Matrix in a Microgravity Environment Completed 3 Transformative Health and Performance Concepts New Jersey Institute of Technology
Prandtl Propeller: Design Process, Verification and Testing, Year 2 Completed 3 Propulsion Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Safe, High-Energy and Performance Na-O2 Battery Completed 6 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Synthetic Biology for Recycling Human Waste into Nutraceuticals, and Materials: Closing the Loop for Long-Term Space Travel Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials University of Delaware
Micro-scale Plasma Arc Gasification for Waste Treatment and Energy Production, Year 1 Completed 6 Waste Management Kennedy Space Center
Oxygen Recovery via Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis with Microtubular Solid Oxide Cells Completed 4 Atmosphere Revitalization University of South Carolina-Columbia
Gas House Autonomous System Monitoring, Year 1 (GHASM) Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center
High-Temperature, Imaging-Based Strain and Temperature Measurement Method for Ground Testing Hypersonic Structures Completed 4 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Armstrong Flight Research Center
Turbulence and energetic ion production in the partially magnetized hollow cathode plume Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Western Michigan University
Gravity Observation and Dark energy Detection Explorer in the Solar System Completed 3 Other Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Fundamental Research into Hyperelastic Materials for Flight Applications Element, Year 1 Completed 5 Flexible Material Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Multi-Platform, Multi-Architecture Runtime Verification of Autonomous Space Systems Completed 3 Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Iowa State University
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission Completed 2 Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT) Completed 3 Mobility Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Smart Quick-Disconnect for Lunar Robotics Completed — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center
Development of 2D and 3D transient electro-thermal computational models to predict the radiation failures in SiC-based Schottky diodes and power field-effect transistors (FETs) Completed 4 Computational Materials Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Onboard Adaptive Safe Site Identification System, Year 2 (OASSIS) Completed 4 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Johnson Space Center
A Frequency Stabilized Master Laser System for the ASCENDS Mission Completed 2 Lasers Marshall Space Flight Center
Sensitive end-effector design for spiny attachment onto frangible substrates in extreme underwater environments Completed 3 Grappling Technologies University of California-Berkeley
Identifying science opportunities and technology options for the Granular Imager Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Iodine Hall Thruster System Components Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Glenn Research Center
Radioisotope Positron Propulsion Completed 2 Solar Thermal Propulsion Positron Dynamics
Nonlinear Millimeter-Wave Interactions with Emulated Blackout Plasmas Completed 1 Launch and Reentry Communications Glenn Research Center
Advanced Exo-Brake Development: Parachuting Small Payloads in a Single-Stage from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Year 2 Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Spaceflight Dietary Intake - there's (soon) an App for that! Completed 6 — Johnson Space Center
Direct hydrogenation of CO2 to ethylene Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Stanford University
A direct probe of dark energy interactions with a solar system laboratory Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Autonomous Training for Long-Term Spaceflight Completed 6 Training Johnson Space Center
Diamond-like Coating Assessment for Reduction of Thruster Erosion (DCARTE-ACO) Completed 5 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Space Systems/Loral, LLC
The AstroNet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Plasma Production of High Purity Hydrazine and Oxidizer Completed 3 Chemical Space Propulsion Kennedy Space Center
Economical Access to Space, Year 2 Completed 5 — Armstrong Flight 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.
💻 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.