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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 185 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
BioLEAD: BioLogical Exploration via Autonomous Detection Completed 4 Monitoring Technology Ames Research Center
Microfluidic Extraction of DNA for Identification of Unknown Organisms in Microgravity Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Johnson Space Center
Passively Expanding Dipole Array for Lunar Sounding (PEDALS) Completed 2 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Human-Robot Collaboration on Complex Tasks Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Brown University
Swab-to-Sequence: Real-time Data Analysis Platform for the Biomolecule Sequencer Completed 5 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Johnson Space Center
3D Printing Heat Shields, Year 1 Completed 2 Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management Johnson Space Center
Anti-Microbial and Self-Cleaning Properties of Photocatalytic Surface Treatments and their Potential Use for Space-Based Applications, Year 2 Completed 7 Planetary Protection Stennis Space Center
Development of High-Performance Ammonia Borane Based Rocket Propellants Completed 3 Hybrids Purdue University-Main Campus
Heavy-Lift 3rd Gen Mid-Air Retrieval Completed 2 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advancement of Additive Manufacturing for Monopropellant Catalyst Beds Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Purdue University-Main Campus
Ultra Long-Lived Autonomous Air Quality Sensing, Year 1 Completed 4 — Johnson Space Center
An Evaluation of the Influence of Residual Stress on Additively Manufactured Materials through Fatigue Crack Growth Analysis Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes University of California-Davis
Safety-Constrained and Efficient Learning for Resilient Autonomous Space Systems Completed 4 Learning and Adaptation University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Free Space Optical Communications for Nanosats Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric VEnus Sensors (LEAVES) Completed 3 Environment Sensors Ohio Aerospace Institute
Nondestructive Evaluation of Adhesive Bond Strength by Ultrasonic Phase Measurements Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes University of Virginia-Main Campus
Crosscutting High Apogee Refueling Orbital Navigator for Active Debris Removal (CHARON) Completed 3 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures MSNW, LLC
Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs, Year 2 Completed 3 Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Plasma-Based Elemental Analyzer for Crewed Transit and Planetary Habitation Completed 4 Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors Kennedy Space Center
Chip-Scale Low-Noise Optoelectronic Synthesizer for the EHF-Band Completed 4 Optimetrics University of Southern California
Calcium-based Battery Development for Space Technology Applications Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ask-the-Expert: Minimizing human review for big data analytics through active learning Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Automatic Specialization of Modular Robot Limbs Completed 3 Modularity, Commonality, and Interfaces Carnegie Mellon University
Locating and Identifying Lunar Volatiles using Heat and Mass Transfer Completed 3 Destination Resource Exploration Colorado School of Mines
New Stagnation Arc Jet Model Design for Testing ADEPT 3-D Carbon Cloth Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Heat exchange-driven aircraft for low altitude and surface exploration of Venus Completed 3 Other Propulsion Systems Planetary Science Institute
Lunar dust capture using novel multi-plexed inertial filter Completed 5 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Johnson Space Center
Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) Completed 2 Solar Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
CRATOS II: Modular ISRU Excavation Tools, Year 1 Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Overcoming Kinetics Limitations in Materials And at Interfaces for Low-temperature, High-energy Batteries Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Developing and validating a virtual sensorimotor analog and countermeasure Completed 7 — Johnson Space Center
StarNAV: An Architecture for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation by the Relativistic Perturbation of Starlight Completed 3 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Normal-Incidence X-ray Mirror for Mapping Warm Galactic Halos Completed 2 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Corrugated Two-dimensional Material Enabled Flexoelectricity for Cryogenic Actuator Technology Completed 3 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch (Kilo) Completed 2 Structures Carnegie Mellon University
Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter Completed 3 Other Entry, Descent, and Landing Hbar Technologies, LLC
Coiled Brine Recovery Assembly, Year 2 (CoBRA) Completed 5 Water Recovery and Management Johnson Space Center
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques for High Energy Battery Components Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Enabling closed-loop control of high degree-of-freedom soft robotic structures Completed 3 Dexterous Manipulation Yale University
Combined artificial star, temperature lidar and magnetometer Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Self-healing Materials for Lightweight, Inflatable Structures for Future Space Systems Completed — Special Materials Langley Research Center
Additive Manufacturing of Low Work Function Oxides for Spaceborne Thermionic Emission Applications Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
VerdeGo Aero VH-3 Hybrid ElectricPowerplant Completed 6 Hybrid Electric Systems —
Towards Real-Time and High-Precision Trajectory Simulation for Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, Year 1 Completed — Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Langley Research Center
Psychophysiological Monitoring of Aerospace Crew State Completed 3 Behavioral Health and Performance Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms Completed 2 Distributed Aperture Cornell University
Intelligent Response and Interaction System (IRIS) Completed 4 Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems Johnson Space Center
Water Walls: Highly Reliable and Massively Redundant Life Support Architecture Completed 3 Certification Methods Ames Research Center
Bioremediation of Microgravity Biofilms and Water Processor Health Completed 4 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
High Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar Planets with a Vector Vortex Coronagraph Completed 3 Optical Components California 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.