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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 196 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Advancement of Deep Learning and Geometric Methods for Active Terrain Relative Navigation Completed 5 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Johnson Space Center
F-18 Stereo Vision Data collection - FY18 Completed 5 Relative Navigation Sensors Armstrong Flight Research Center
Astro-Interferometric Modeling and Spatio-Spectral Reconstruction Completed 3 Science Modeling University of Rochester
Additive Manufacturing of Novel Transition Metal Boride Material System Resistant to Wear and Corrosion for Lunar and Planetary Exploration, Year 2 Completed 3 Materials for Extreme Environments Langley Research Center
Magnetron Sputter Deposition System for the Development of Multilayer X-ray Optic, Year 1 Completed 3 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Sulfur Cathode for High-Energy Li-Sulfur Battery Completed 5 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
InAs Schottky Diode Based Mixers for Submillimeter-wave Heterodyne Instruments, Year 1 Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stratospheric Free-Flight Dynamics Testing of Entry Capsules Completed 5 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Ames Research Center
Stochastic Multiscale Fatigue Life Prediction Framework for Next Generation Durability and Damage Tolerance Completed 4 Computational Materials Vanderbilt University
Feasibility Study for a 30 K to 4.5 K Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Completed 2 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Electronegative Gas Thruster - Direct Thrust Measurement Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Shape Memory Alloys for Regulating TCS in Space (SMARTS-TP) Completed 6 Heat Rejection and Storage Paragon Space Development Corporation
Miniature Biometric Sensor Completed 3 Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring Johnson Space Center
Real-Time Structural Overload Control via Control Allocation Optimization Completed 5 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Effluent Scrubbing of Engine Exhaust of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Engine Project Completed 2 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center
Reconfiguring Worlds with Simple Actuation via Physics-Based Nonprehensile Actions Completed 3 Autonomous, Real-Time Command and Control Carnegie Mellon University
Elevated Temperature Irradiation Testing of Cermet Fuels for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Photolithographically Textured Silicon Lenses for Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology
Making Rocket Fuel from Moon Rocks: Silicon-Liquid Oxygen (SiLOX) as a Hybrid Propellant Completed 2 Hybrids Kennedy Space Center
Developing Principles for Effective Human Collaboration with Free-Flying Robots Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction University of Colorado Boulder
Prototyping Tensegrity Lander Systems for Icy Terrain, Year 2 Completed 4 Aerodynamic Decelerators Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Virtual Meteorological Towers and Optical Air Data Systems for Mars Exploration and Colonization Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Digital Materials (DM) Completed — — Ames Research Center
Effect(s) of Residual Water System Silver Biocide on Space Crop Microbiome and Nutrient Content Completed 3 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center
Unlocking Memory Metal Power Generation & Energy Conversion, Year 2 Completed 4 — Stennis Space Center
Phase-change Reconfigurable Optical WavEfront Synthesis System (PROWESS) Completed 2 Optical Components Langley Research Center
Algorithms and Techniques for Environmental Sensing and Spacecraft Monitoring Completed 3 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dynamically Step Locked Seed Laser for Cross-Cutting SmallSat Water Vapor and Methane DIAL, Year 2 Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE), Year 1 Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Ames Research Center
Plasma Rapid Oxidation Technique for Extending Component Tenability (PROTECT) Completed 3 Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
MAGE: Teaching AI to Manage Airspace Complexity, Part 2 Completed 4 Anomaly Detection Langley Research Center
Novel Instrument Suite for Martian Environment Completed 4 Electronics Ames Research Center
Mars Technology Demonstration Support Canceled 6 — Johnson Space Center
Reversibly Assembling Materials as Recyclable Feedstocks for In-Space Manufacturing: Simulation and Experiment Completed 2 Computational Materials Ames Research Center
Novel Musculoskeletal Loading and Assessment System (MLS), Year 2 Completed 6 — Johnson Space Center
HI-C LITE: Heating Integrated and Compliant Lightweight Intelligent Tool End-effector Completed 4 Grappling Technologies Langley Research Center
Solar Thermal Propulsion Heat Shield Coating Development Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Ames Research Center
Inside-Out Manufacturing of Composite Structures Project Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Johnson Space Center
Materials on International Space Station Experiment – X (MISSE-X) Completed 7 Materials for Extreme Environments Langley Research Center
Autonomous Aerial Cargo Operations at Scale Completed 1 Traffic Management Concepts The University of Texas at Austin
Mobility-Energy-Coordinated Platform for Infrastructure Planning to Support AAM Aircraft Operations (MECPIP) Completed 1 Architectures and Infrastructure New Mexico State University-Main Campus
Characterize High-Strain-Rate Behavior of Structural Materials Completed — — —
Advanced Rotating Detonation Variant Additive Rocket Chamber (ARDVARC-ACO) Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion IN Space, LLC
Environmental Ice Simulator (EIS) Active 3 Environment Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Ultra-Compact Space Flight Lasers for Handheld, Rover and Drone Applications Active 3 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Advanced Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOF-MS) Active 2 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Miniature Capacitive Discharge Ignition (M-CDI) (M-CDI) Completed 3 Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management Wallops Flight Facility
Lunar CubeSat Mass Spectrometer with LETS Radiation Sensor Completed 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Adapting the Compact Integrated Raman Spectrometer (CIRS) for Lunar Exploration (CIRS) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Compact, Robust Pump for Deep Subsurface Ice Penetration Completed 3 Below-Surface Mobility Creare, LLC
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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.