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 21 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Com+ Simulation Architecture With Application To Tethers And Formation Flying, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
A DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION MODEL FOR SPACEPORT OPERATIONS (SPACESIM), Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Kennedy Space Center
Lightweight Active Nanolaminate Mirror with Wireless Shape Control, Phase II	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TeraHertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Analog Materials	Completed	—	Destination Resource Exploration	—
A Novel, Intergrated Adsorber/Catalyst Oxidizer for TCCS, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Distributed Fiber-optic Electrostatic Potential Sensor System for Spacecrafts, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
High Resolution X-ray Measurements Following Charge Exchange with Atomic H: Data for a New Observational Window on Diffuse Astrophysical Sources	Completed	—	Field and Particle Detectors	—
Planetary Heat-Flux Sensor for Venus	Completed	—	Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management	—
A Microsatellite Propulsion Module for Micro-spacecraft based on Gel-propellant, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Goddard Space Flight Center
Automated, Real-Time Targeting and Guidance Software for Lunar Descent and Precision Landing, Phase I	Completed	—	Targeting Algorithms	Johnson Space Center
Advancements in Optical Navigation Capabilities	Completed	3	Ground-Based Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Efficient Techniques for Formal Verification of PowerPC 750 Executables, Phase I	Completed	—	Robot Software	Ames Research Center
Spectroscopic Dosimeter, Phase II	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Ames Research Center
Plasma Lysis Decontamination System with Mass Spectrometric Detection, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
An Optical Wake Vortex Detection System for Super-Density Airport Operation, Phase II	Completed	—	Traffic Management Concepts	Langley Research Center
Imaging Spectropolarimetric Sensor for Airborne and Ground Based Retrieval of Aerosol Properties, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Langley Research Center
Distributed Operations Software for Wireless Handheld Computers, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
High-Fidelity Gas and Granular Flow Physics Models for Rocket Exhaust Interaction with Lunar Soil, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Kennedy Space Center
Safe Operation of Electric Aircraft in the Presence of Motor Failures	Completed	1	Turboelectric Propulsion	Ames Research Center
An Ultra-Lightweight, High Performance Carbon-Carbon Space Radiator, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Transparent Integration of SINDA/G into Patran, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Microwave-pumped GaAs far infrared photoconductor, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Ames Research Center
Polarization Imaging Apparatus for Cell and Tissue Imaging and Diagnostics, Phase II	Completed	—	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
A Distributed Science Mission Testbed	Completed	3	GN&C Ground Testbeds and Test Facilities	Goddard Space Flight Center
Conversation Interface Domains for Rapid Programming of Complex Natural Language, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Johnson Space Center
The cryogenic evaluation of typical and experimental filament winding materials, Phase II	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Marshall Space Flight Center
An Innovative Method of NOX Reduction Through Fuel Additives for the UEET Program, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Glenn Research Center
Electrochemical Ethylene Sensor for Monitoring Low Levels in Plant Environments, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
A Reliable Electronic Package for Space Exploration, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Langley Research Center
Development of Space Based Emergency Medical Procedures Using Simulation Technology, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Advanced Boundary Actuation for Improvement of Large Membrane Optical Figure, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lightweight Nozzle Extension for Liquid Rocket Engines, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Electrochromic Thermal Stabilization of Large Deployable Structures, Phase II	Completed	—	Measurement and Control	Langley Research Center
High-Power Pump Laser for Ozone Lidar, Phase II	Completed	—	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Magnetically Enhanced Vacuum Arc Thruster, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Magnetically Enhanced Vacuum Arc Thruster, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hybrid lightweight X-ray optics for half arcsecond imaging	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	—
Avionics Based Runway Incursion Prevention, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Langley Research Center
Heat Pipe Solar Receiver for Oxygen Production of Lunar Regolith, Phase I	Completed	—	Heat Sources	Glenn Research Center
Infrared Microscope Development for Instrument Component and Geological Sample Characterization	Completed	5	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous Flocking and Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems	Completed	1	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Langley Research Center
Vertical Interconnects for 3D CMOS Imager, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Carbon-Supported Amine Sorbent Monoliths for Carbon Dioxide Removal, Phase I	Completed	—	Atmosphere Revitalization	Johnson Space Center
Low Pressure Adsorbent for Recovery & Storage Vented Hydrogen, Phase I	Completed	—	Commodity Recovery	Kennedy Space Center
Novel Real-Time Flight Envelope Monitoring System, Phase I	Completed	3	Navigation Sensors	Armstrong Flight Research Center
High Efficiency, High Temperature Foam Core Heat Exchanger for Fission Surface Power Systems, Phase II	Completed	—	Heat Acquisition	Glenn Research Center
Innovative Tungsten Alloys for Advanced Propulsion Systems, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Wireless, Passive Encoded Saw Sensors and Communication Links - Phase II	Completed	—	Wireless Avionics Technologies	Kennedy Space Center
Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs	Completed	—	Science Modeling	—
Flight Testing of Wireless Networking for Nanosat Launch Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	Launch Vehicle Propellant	Ames Research Center

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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.