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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 →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 2 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
GN&C Modeling, Simulation, and Integration of ANTS Active — Surface Mobility Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Granular Regolith Induced Tribology (GRIT) Active — Autonomous Systems Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
HEXITEC ASIC Pixelated CdTe Detector Front-End Electronics and Packaging Development Active — Detectors and Focal Planes Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
High-Temp EFPI Accelerometer Technology Active — Environment Sensors Armstrong Flight Research Center 2026-10-07 —
H-MAST: Horizontal Multi‑Axis Shock Test Active — Ground and Surface Logistics Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Hot-Fire Demonstration of Cascading Rocket Nozzles Active — Chemical Space Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2026-10-07 —
Hypersonic Flight Deflection Measurement System Active — Ground and Flight Test Technologies Armstrong Flight Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Inferring Solar Coronal Currents to Determine the Origins of Space Weather Active — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Integration of Additive Manufacturing and Ultrasonic Welding for Advanced Manufacturing of Polymers and Composites Active — Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Glenn Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Investigating COTS magnetometers for spaceflight research applications Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Investigation of Microwave Photonics for Upper Atmosphere Sounding Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
JOEEE: Jumping Orientable Extreme Environment Explorer Active — Robotic Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Leveraging AI-Driven Methodologies to Enable Sun-to-Earth Space Weather Modelling Active — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
LUCID: Lunar Clean ISRU Depot Active — Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Kennedy Space Center 2026-10-07 —
Lunar Glovebox Development Active — Mission Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Supportability Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Lunar Water Mapper Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
LUNARMBENCH - Benchmarking Robotic Manipulation for Lunar Surface Logistics & Infrastructure Active — Robotic Systems Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
LuxBio Microgreens: De-Risking Autonomous Crop Phenotyping for Lunar Surface Food Production Active — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Magnetic-nozzle Arcjet eXperiments for Wall-loading, Erosion, and Lifetime Limits (MAXWELL) Active — Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Mars Scoreboards Active — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Matrixed Autonomous Knowledge Orchestrator (MAKO) Active — Reasoning and Acting Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Maturation of the Lunar DustCam instrument for in situ monitoring of lunar dust Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Metamaterials Replacing Beryllium using Architected Materials Active — Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
MIDAS: Modular Interoperable Distributed Avionics and Software Active — Modularity, Commonality, and Interfaces Johnson Space Center 2026-10-07 —
Miniaturized Gravity Gradiometer for Asteroid Mass Determination via Close Fly-By Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Modeling Piezoelectric Materials for Active Dust Mitigation Active — Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
MR Vision_Micro-Radar Vision System for Planetary Navigation & Hazard Detection Active — Sensing for Robotic Systems Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Multiple Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Orbital Drag Calibration Object Design Study Active — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Pretreat-Safe Electrical Feedthrough Active — Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
QTWTT as the Quantum Metrology Overlay for LunaNet Time-Scale Interoperability Active — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Quantum Computing Algorithms for NASA Applications Active — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Quantum Frequency Converter (QFC) Active — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Glenn Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Radiation-Aware Edge AI for Future Space Nuclear and Surface Autonomy Systems: Inference Fidelity Characterization on Rad-Tolerant FPGA Platforms Active — Flight Computing and Avionics Glenn Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Resident Space Object Breakup Toolkit Active — Science Modeling Johnson Space Center 2026-10-07 —
Scalable Passive Interferometric Distributed Exploration Radiometer (SPIDER) Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Secure Autonomous Computing Stack Active — Autonomous Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Sensitivity Analysis of Flight-State Reconstruction Across a Dynamic Mid-Flight Event Active — Trajectory Design and Analysis Ames Research Center 2026-10-07 —
SENTRY-Mars: Solar, Environment, and iNterplanetary dynamics Tracking and Response sYstem at Mars. Active — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
SLABs (Solar Light Absorbing Bricks derived from regolith composites) Active — Heat Sources Kennedy Space Center 2026-10-07 —
Small All-range LIdar for Moon and Mars (SALI) Active — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
SpaceVLA: Generalized Intelligent Autonomy for Space-Based Asset Decision-Making Active — Autonomous Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
SPOT: Single-Platform Object Triangulation for Air Domain Awareness Active — Autonomous Systems Langley Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Stereo PIV Study of Wake-Driven Dynamic Instability in Blunt Entry Vehicles  Active — Entry Modeling and Simulation Langley Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Surviving Lunar Night with Solid State Battery Systems Active — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Langley Research Center 2026-10-07 —
System for Photogrammetric Imaging, Detection, and Ranging (SPIDR) Active — Launch, Recovery, and Reuse Kennedy Space Center 2026-10-07 —
The design of fibrous insulation to minimize radiative heat transfer for TPS Active — Entry, Descent, and Landing Langley Research Center 2026-10-07 —
The SHADOW Digital Twin (Supervisory Human Analog for Decision-making and Operational Work-state) Active — Human-System Performance Modeling Langley Research Center 2026-10-07 —
Tracking Space Weather with 3D Printed Fluxgate Magnetometer Sensors Active — Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-10-07 —
Traction Enhancement Device for Robotic Excavation, Construction and Mining Platforms (TED) Active — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Kennedy Space Center 2026-10-07 —
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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.
  • Contribution potential is our estimate, not NASA data: an Active project at a low TRL has more room for outside research involvement than a flight-proven one. High = Active + TRL 1-3, Medium = Active + TRL 4-6, Low = Active + TRL 7-9. "Active" does not mean NASA is seeking external contributors or that funding exists — treat this purely as a shortlisting aid.
  • Last updated is TechPort's own lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".
💻 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.