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

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Cold-Lightweight Imagers for Europa (C-LIFE) Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
A switchable holographic circle to point converter for use in LIDAR receivers, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Time-stepped & discrete-event simulations of electromagnetic propulsion systems, Phase II Completed — Uncertainty Quantification and Nondeterministic Simulation Methods Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Innovative Tungsten Alloys for Advanced Propulsion Systems, Phase I Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
HyDE Enhancements for ISHM Deployment, Phase II Completed — Launch Vehicle Propellant Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Integrating Prognostics in Automated Contingency Management Strategies for Advanced Aircraft Controls, Phase II Completed — Management and Control Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Flexible, Low CTE Composites for Precision Deployable Structures, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Remote On-demand Networked Distributed Operations (RONDO), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Adaptive, Learning Control for Unmanned Vehicles, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Development of a TRL6 Electric Motor and Position Sensor for Venus Completed — Control Force and Torque Actuators — 2018-10-10 —
Reconfigurable Weather Radar for Airborne Applications, Phase I Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultrasonic Tape Laminated Cryogenic Tank Structures Processed Outside Autoclave, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Health and Maintenance Status Determination and Predictive Fault Diagnosis System, Phase I Completed — Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Multifunctional Spacecraft Coatings via Nanostructuring of Materials in Controlled Porosity Medium, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Development of a Neutral Wind and Temperature Instrument with Mass Spectrometry Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Control of Systems with Actuator Failures, Phase I Completed — Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Acoustic Emission Sensor for Spacecraft Applications, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Multifunctional Thermal Protection System for Future Space Transportation Vehicles, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Flight-based instrumentation for in situ measurements of multiple trace gases, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Single Crystal Piezoelectric Deformable Mirrors with High Actuator Density and Large Stroke, Phase II Completed — Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Networks in Organizational Risk Management, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Simple, Small, Low Power Instrument to Measure Aircraft Icing Severity, Phase I Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Use of NDE Techniques for Compliance Verification of Suspect Counterfeit EEE Parts Completed — Ground and Surface Logistics Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Developing fine-pixel CdTe detectors for the next generation of high-resolution hard x-ray telescopes Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
The BiBlade Sampler for Small Body Sample Return Matured for a Comet Surface Sample Return Mission Completed — Sample Handling — 2018-10-10 —
Miniature Intelligent Sensor Electronics, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Collaborative Routing Rationing Algorithm, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Object-Oriented, Network-Based, Health Management System, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Novel Method of Subsurface Water Detection, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
FLIGHT WEIGHT MAGNETS USING CARBON NANOTUBES, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Aircraft Engine Oil Health Sensor, Phase II Completed — Environment Sensors Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Novel Portable Apparatus for Noninvasively Measuring Bone Density, Phase I Completed — Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Bone Ultrasonic Scanner (BUSS) for Bone Health Assessment, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Comprehensive Uncertainty Estimation for CFD, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Next Generation X-ray Polarimeter Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes (SETG) Completed — Sample Acquisition and Handling — 2018-10-10 —
Physiological and Environmental Sensor Skin Stamp Completed — Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
A Novel Transition Edge High Tc Superconducting Bolometer Using CCVD thin films, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Co-Generation of High Purity Hydrogen and Electric Power, Phase II Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Incorporation of Silicon Carbide in MEMS-Based Micro-Rocket Engines, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Linear Structural Relations Modeling for Complex Land Cover and Land Use Change, Phase I Completed — Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Seismometers for Exploring the Subsurface of Europa (SESE) Completed 4 Environment Sensors — 2018-10-10 —
Energy-Based Acoustic Measurement Techniques and Sensors, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
SATS Virtual Market Place Facilitating Traffic Flow Management, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Novel Micro-Capillary Electrochromatography for Mars Organic Detector, Phase I Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Indirect Rotational Spectroscopy of Astronomically Relevant Molecular Ions Completed — Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment — 2018-10-10 —
Intelligent Self Evolving Prognostic Fusion, Phase I Completed — Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy Technology for Inlet Flow Control, Phase I Completed — Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
NAS-Wide Environmental Modeling of Alternative Airspace Concepts, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Hybrid Model Fusion for Gas Turbine Engine Diagnostics and Prognostics, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
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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.