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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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 187 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
High energy density additives for Hybrid Fuel Rockets to Improve Performance and Enhance Safety Completed 3 Hybrids Ames Research Center
Increasing Efficiency of Routine Robot Space Operations through Adjustable Autonomy and Learning from Human Instructions Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Development of Floating Slosh Dampers for Propellant Tanks - FY17 Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center
Carbon Nanotube Composite SHM Sensor using Additive Manufacturing Completed 4 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Marshall Space Flight Center
Turbolift Completed 2 Transformative Health and Performance Concepts IMSG Laboratories, Inc.
Extending Controllable Adhesive Technologies to Irregular Surfaces with Soft Robotic Actuation Completed 3 Dexterous Manipulation University of California-San Diego
Massively Expanded NEA Accessibility via Microwave-Sintered Aerobrakes Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Deep Space Industries, Inc.
MEMRIC -- A Transformative Technology for Enabling Space Construction and Fractionation Completed 6 — Ames Research Center
Fabrication of Continuous Nano SiC Fibers by Microwave Sintering of Pre-Ceramic SiC Nanofiber Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Astrophysics and Technical Lab Studies of a Solar Neutrino Spacecraft Detector Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Wichita State University
Deployable Composite Booms (DCB) Completed 5 Flexible Material Systems Langley Research Center
Commercial Feasibility of In-Space Manufacturing Applications with Technology Development Targets Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Safe Autonomous Flight Environment (SAFE50) for the Notional Last '50 ft' of Operation of '55 lb' Class of UAS Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
In-flight Sorting of BNNTs by Aspect Ratio Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Application of Reinforcement Learning: Trajectories Resilient to Missed Thrust Events (MTEs), Year 2 Completed 4 GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robotic Technologies Enabling the Exploration of Lunar Pits Completed 5 Below-Surface Mobility Carnegie Mellon University
The Nuclear Propulsion and Power Non-Nuclear Test Facility, Year 2 (NP2NTF) Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center
Ruggedized WDM Fiber Optics Interrogator to Support Structural Health Monitoring of Reusable Launch Vehicle Completed 6 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
Pluto Hop, Skip, and Jump Completed 3 Entry, Descent, and Landing Global Aerospace Corporation
Advancing Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitats for Human Stasis to Mars Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI)
Feature-Based Visual SLAM For Shadowed, Specular, and Hazy Environments Completed 3 State Estimation University of Colorado Boulder
Adaptive Augmenting Control and Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control Flight Experiments Element Completed 6 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Robust Entry and Landing Guidance Under Dynamic Uncertainty Completed 3 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing University of Colorado Boulder
Propellant Slosh in Small Satellite Conformal Tanks Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Purdue University-Main Campus
Technologies for Mixed-Initiative Plan Management for Human Space Flight Completed 4 Mission Planning Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Advancing Attitude and Shape Control for Large, Ultralight, Flexible Spacecraft Completed 3 Lightweight Concepts California Institute of Technology
Utilization of Self-Healing Materials in Thermal Protection System Applications Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manufacturing of Tunable Printable Biosensors During Human Space Flight Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
Robust Verification Tools for Precision Entry Guidance Completed 3 Atmosphere Characterization Carnegie Mellon University
Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking with the Aid of Optical Maneuver Detection Completed 2 Optimetrics The University of Texas at Austin
Application of the MCMC Method for the Calibration of DSMC Parameters to NASA EAST Results for Ionizing, Radiating Hypersonic Flows Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL The University of Texas at Austin
Very compact FTIR spectrometer for planetary in-situ measurements, Year 1 Completed — Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mini Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, Year 2 (miniTOCA) Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Johnson Space Center
Polaris Project: Data Planning and Control Tool (DPAC) (DPAC) Completed 7 Execution and Control Marshall Space Flight Center
Phase-change Reconfigurable Optical WavEfront Synthesis System (PROWESS) Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
Advanced Internally Redundant Load Switching Power Distribution System Completed 3 Autonomous Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Shaped and Seamless Thermal Protection System, Year 2 Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Liquefiying Gas Electrolyte by Capillary Condensation at Ambient Pressure for Extreme Low-Temperature Batteries Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries University of California-San Diego
Long Term In-Space Cryogen Storage - Magnetic Isolation Completed 3 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Developing Hierarchical Glass-Ceramics for Advanced Solid-State Batteries using Additive Manufacturing Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries University of California-Irvine
Polaris Project: Multifunctional Nanosensor Platform for Environmental Monitoring Completed 6 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
On-Orbit Additive Manufacturing Using Recycled Waste Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes re:3D, Inc.
Myco-architecture off planet: growing surface structures at destination Completed 2 Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Processes Ames Research Center
Mini Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, Year 1 (miniTOCA) Completed 3 — Johnson Space Center
Predicting the Integrity of Additively Manufactured Nickel Alloys Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes University of California-Santa Barbara
Plasma Based Energy Deposition for Mitigation of Sonic Boom: Experiment to demonstrate viability, Year 1 Completed 3 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Armstrong Flight Research Center
Evaluation of SPE and GCR Radiation Effects in Inflatable and Habitable Materials-of-Construction, Year 2 Completed 3 — Johnson Space Center
Piezoelectric Strainmeter for the Seismic Investigation of Planets Completed 3 Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices Marshall Space Flight Center
PRANTL-M Completed 4 Above-Surface Mobility Armstrong Flight Research Center
Data-Driven Predictive Modeling of Small Spacecraft Electric Propulsion Systems Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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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.