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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 194 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Investigation of the Hall Effect Thruster Breathing Mode and Spoke Mode Instabilities in the Very Near Field Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Sustainable In-Space Manufacturing through Rapid Prototyping Technology Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Quantum Computational Biology: A Quantum Computing Approach to Hard Computational Problems Related to Origin of Life and Synthetic Biology Completed 9 — Ames Research Center
Pericyclic Gearbox for Roving Expeditions (PyRE) Completed 3 Surface Mobility Glenn Research Center
Extreme Environment Wear Testbed for Materials Discovery for Lunar Dust Tolerant Applications Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Langley Research Center
Hybrid Van Der Waals Materials In Next-Generation Electronics Completed 3 Special Materials University of Notre Dame
Revolutionizing Orbit Insertion with Drag-Modulated Plasma Aerocapture Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Autonomous Systems StrEss Testing (ASSET) Completed 3 Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Stennis Space Center
Combined Heat Shield and Solar Thermal Propulsion System for an Oberth Maneuver Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory
Autonomous Micro-Modular Mobile Data Center Cloud Computing Study for Modeling, Simulation, Information Processing and Cyber-Security Viability Project Completed 6 Cyber Security Stennis Space Center
Modeling of Microstructure Formation in Additively Manufactured IN718 with Emphasis on Porosity Prediction Completed 4 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing Carnegie Mellon University
Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy (EPIC) Completed 5 Aerodynamic Decelerators Armstrong Flight Research Center
Solid State Ultra Capacitor, Year 2 Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Linear Transformer Drivers for Propulsion and Power, Year 2 Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Venus Atmosphere and Cloud Particle Sample Return for Astrobiology Completed 3 Destination Resource Exploration Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vehicle Design & Performance Simulation Capabilities Development for Magnetohydrodynamic Aerocapture Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators Langley Research Center
Continuing to Raise the Technical Readiness of Germanium Immersion Gratings for a Space-based High-resolution IR Spectrograph Completed 3 Optical Components Ames Research Center
Rapid and minimally invasive glass microfiber-based biodosimeter for in-flight quantification of radiation exposure from finger prick blood samples Completed 3 Monitoring Technology Oregon State University
Conformal Carbon Nanotubes for Stray Light Suppression Completed 4 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Wireless Multiplexed SAW Sensors, Year 2 Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring Kennedy Space Center
Lasing Without Gain Inertial Sensors Completed 3 Navigation Sensors Marshall Space Flight Center
Ultra-Low Power CMOS-compatible Integrated Photonic Platform for Terabit-Scale Communications Completed 4 Quantum Communications Columbia University in the City of New York
Developing a Material Response Model of Biopolymer-Stabilized Regolith to Predict Micrometeoroid Damage of ISRU Habitat Systems Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Stanford University
A 3He-4He Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration System with Gadolinium Lithium Fluoride for Sub-Kelvin Cooling of Space Instrumentation Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems University of Wisconsin-Madison
Propellant Delivery Via VDC Driven Pump, Year 3 Completed 5 Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer Stennis Space Center
Diamond Electron-Spin Clocks For Space Navigation and Communication Completed 3 Timekeeping and Time Distribution Massachusetts Institute of Technology
VLWIR nBn Detectors Based on InAsSb Metamorphic Superlattices, Year 2 Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A System for Time-Critical Human-Machine Decision Making Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Using Ternary Alloy Additions to Engineer Nitinol Shape Memory Alloys Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials The University of Alabama
Orbit Databases and Fast Gravity Fields for Rapid Trajectory Design Near Small Bodies Completed 3 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination The University of Texas at Austin
Measurement and Modeling of Surface Coking in Fuel-Film Cooled Liquid Rocket Engines Completed 3 Cryogenic Propulsion Purdue University-Main Campus
Multiscale NTP Fuel Element Materials Simulation Completed 3 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Quiet Fan Technology for Deep Space, Year 2 Completed 7 Logistics Management Johnson Space Center
Thermal/Heat Transfer Analysis Using a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) Enabled Computing Environment Project Completed 7 Test, Operations, and Systems Safety Stennis Space Center
Understanding and Predicting Dominant Physics in Supersonic Retropropulsion Completed 3 Supersonic Retropropulsion University of Maryland-College Park
Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wave Front End Development for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere with Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Substrates Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center
Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET) Completed 2 Structures and Antennas 3DeWitt LLC
Very Compact FTIR Spectrometer for Planetary In-Situ Measurements, Year 2 Completed 3 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Automated Medical Inventory System (AMIS) Completed 5 Human Health and Performance Johnson Space Center
Optimized Entry and Powered Descent Guidance for Precision Planetary Landing Completed 3 Supersonic Retropropulsion Purdue University-Main Campus
Thin-Film Broadband Large Area Imaging System Completed 3 Distributed Aperture BeamCo
Mullite-Based Oxidation Protection Coating for C/C and C/SiC Composite Materials for Hypersonic Applications at Temperatures up to 3000 F Completed 3 Coatings Glenn Research Center
Superconducting Readout Circuits for SNSPD Arrays, Year 2 Completed — Detector Development Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Contactless Magnetic Joint Actuator for Space Applications Completed — Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices —
Plume Mitigation: Soil Erosion and Lunar Prospecting Sensor Project Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Application of Reinforcement Learning: Trajectories Resilient to Missed Thrust Events (MTEs), Year 1 Completed — Event and Trend Identification Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topology Optimization of Lightweight, Additively Manufactured Lattice Systems for Space Applications Completed 4 Lightweight Concepts Johns Hopkins University
Computational and Experimental Investigation of Liquid Propellant Rocket Combustion Instability Completed 3 Other Propulsion Systems Purdue University-Main Campus
Modeling and Control Methods for Supporting Scapulohumeral Rhythm with a Robotic Exoskeleton Completed 3 Prevention and Countermeasures The University of Texas at Austin
BioWires: DNA-Based Nanowires for Conductivity-Enhanced, Self-Assembling Nanoelectronics Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Columbia University in the City of New York
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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.