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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 195 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion MSNW, LLC
More Robust Test Stand Operations through Next-Gen Real-Time Analysis of Operations Anomalies Project Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center
Low Reynolds Number Passive Boundary Layer Heating for Drag Reduction Completed 3 Flight Vehicle Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Fueling a Human Mission to Mars: From Superbug to Deep-Space Colonization Completed 2 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Georgia Tech Research Corporation
A Coupled Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation Framework for Expensive Models: Revisiting a NASA Frangible Joint Analysis Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Langley Research Center
Strain Sensors Based on Sandwich Structures of Crumpled Graphene for Structural Health Monitoring Completed 3 Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Utilization of Magnetohydrodynamics for Trajectory Control to Land High-Mass Payloads on Mars Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Resource-Aware Navigation for Shadowed and Uncertain Environments Completed 3 Path Planning Carnegie Mellon University
Goggle-Based Visual Field Device, Year 1 Completed 6 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Johnson Space Center
Next-Generation Mars Network Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) for Future Robotic and Human Explorers Completed 3 Network-Provided Position, Navigation, and Timing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Particle Impact Simulation and Ignition Prediction Completed 7 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Johnson Space Center
F-15 Aero Tow Train Flight Testing, Year 2 Completed 3 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
EcoMine™ – Bioregenerative Mineral Mining from Lunar Regolith Completed 3 Destination Resource Exploration —
Toward an X-ray Pulsar Navigation Experiment on the Lunar Gateway Completed 5 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of High-Fidelity Material Response Modeling for Resin-Infused Woven Thermal Protection Systems Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Building trust in artificial intelligence: fusing interpretable machine learning and uncertainty quantification Completed 4 Engineering and Integrity Langley Research Center
An Investigation of Cryo-Capable Electronics for Surviving the Lunar Night (Renewal) Completed 4 Power Management and Distribution Glenn Research Center
Switchable Shape Memory Alloys Thermal Materials Completed 3 Smart Materials Kennedy Space Center
Lunar dust capture using novel multi-plexed inertial filter Year 2 of 3 Completed 4 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Johnson Space Center
Toward In-Space Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets with Embedded Fibers, Year 2 Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Eutectic AlSi 3D printing Completed 3 Electromagnetic Environment Effects Kennedy Space Center
Titan Submarine: Exploring the Depths of Kraken Mare Completed 1 Launch Vehicle Propellant Glenn Research Center
Integration of Voice and Gesture Completed 3 Training Johnson Space Center
EVA Suit Microbial Leakage Investigation Completed 5 — Johnson Space Center
Voxel Advanced Digital-manufacturing for Earth & Regolith in Space, Year 1 (VADERS) Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
Improving performance and lifetime of high-Isp electrospray propulsion Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Southern California
Toward Development of Digital Twins for Materials via In-Situ Scanning Electron Microscope Experiments for Multiscale Validation Using Machine Learning Completed 2 Computational Materials Glenn Research Center
Telerobotic Perception during Asteroid and Mars Regolith Operations, Year 1 Completed 5 — Kennedy Space Center
IMPACT: Ionic Molecular Propellants Advanced Collision analysis Technique Active 2 Electrostatic Propulsion Cornell University
Molten Regolith Electrolysis (MRE) – Starter Device (MRE) Completed — In Situ Resource Use Kennedy Space Center
Development of Advanced Detonation Modeling Methods for Hydrocarbon Propellants, Year 1 Completed 4 Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management Stennis Space Center
CRATOS II: Modular ISRU Excavation Tools, Year 2 Completed — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Glenn Research Center
Compostable investigations with logistical habitation and crop production waste. Completed 4 Waste Management Kennedy Space Center
Mycotecture off Planet: En Route to the Moon and Mars Active 3 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing —
Development of Three Models for Generating the Electric Arc needed to Modify a Shock Wave, Year 2 Completed 4 Aerodynamics Armstrong Flight Research Center
A Lightweight, Multifunctional Hybrid Metal Matrix Composite for Neutron Shielding Completed 3 Protection Systems University of Florida
Conformal Nanotube Baffle for a Compact Coronagraph Completed 7 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Photonic Crystal Fiber Interferometry for Lidar Applications Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
Improving Low-Temperature Performance of Battery Anodes Based on Surface-Controlled Charge Storage Mechanism Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Reducing Cost of Space Photovoltaics via Sound-Assisted Substrate Reuse Completed 6 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Crystal Sonic, Inc.
High-Power Full-Scale Annular Plasma Engine Demonstration Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Glenn Research Center
New Flight Data Acquisition Techniques for Store Separation Completed 3 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Origami-Based Deployable Composite Super-Structures Completed 4 Computational Materials Langley Research Center
High-Speed Measurements of Multiple Species and Temperature in Composite Solid Propellant Flames Completed 3 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Purdue University-Main Campus
Next Generation Silicon Based Solar Arrays for Space Stations and Other Permanent Space Infrastructure Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Solestial, Inc.
Ultra-compact On-chip Integrated Spectrometers based on Metasurfaces Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Compact and LWIR-Augmented WARS (CLAW), Year 2 Completed 4 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Armstrong Flight Research Center
Method for Determining Vaporization Parameters Completed 2 — Glenn Research Center
THEIA – Thermal History Exploration Instrument for Artemis Completed 4 Destination Resource Exploration Ames Research Center
Advanced Lithography to Maximize Performance of Wafer-thin Integrated Photonic Spectrographs, Year 2 Completed 3 Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.