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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 25 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Application of Robust Laser Interferometer to Fire Prevention, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Wire-line Analysis Tool for Subsurface Observations of Northern-ice-sheets: The WATSON Project Completed — Engine Icing — 2018-10-10 —
Improved Trajectory Search Capability for Multi-Rendezvous and Flyby Missions (NELLS) Completed 2 Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
The Constant Force Resistive Exercise Unit (CFREU) for Multi-Functional Exercise, Phase I Completed — Long-Duration Health Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Fast Event Recognition for the ATHENA Wide Field Imager Completed 3 Optical Components — 2018-10-10 —
Lab Astro for Studies of Fe-Group Nucleosynthesis Completed 1 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Widely Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Local Oscillator for Infrared Heterodyne Earth Atmospheric Remote Spectrometer (IHEARS) Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
Certification of the COTS Engine and Naturalistic Flight Deck Systems for the Next Generation of Small Aircraft, Phase II Completed — Engine Icing Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Pulsed Electrogasdynamic Thruster for Attitude Control and Orbit Maneuver, Phase I Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
AROMA: ADVANCED RESOLUTION ORGANIC MOLECULE ANALYZER Completed 3 Environment Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High Sensitivity Indium Phosphide Based Avalanche Photodiode Focal Plane Arrays, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Blade Vibration Measurement System for Characterization of Closely Spaced Modes and Mistuning, Phase II Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultrasonic Tape Laminated Cryogenic Tank Structures Processed Outside Autoclave, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Structural Health Monitoring with Fiber Bragg Grating and Piezo Arrays, Phase I Completed — Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Hydrogen-Rich, Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites for Radiation Shielding, Phase I Completed — Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
X-ray Computed Tomography Image Quality Indicator (IQI) Development (CT IQI) Completed 3 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Receive System for Multiple Payload Swarm (RSMPS) Completed 4 Radio Frequency Wallops Flight Facility 2018-10-10 —
Rich Annotation of Images, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Distributed Cluster Based Architecture for Constellations, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Development of Space Based Emergency Medical Procedures Using Simulation Technology, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Search for cosmic ultra-high energy neutrinos with ANITA-IV Completed — Warm Gas — 2018-10-10 —
Intelligent Procedure Tracking and Assistance, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
NASA-Industry Technical Standards and Round Robin Study on the Effect of Defects Unique to PBF Additive Manufacturing (AMTR) Completed 5 Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors White Sands Test Facility 2018-10-10 —
Grid-Based Distribution of Payload Video to Experimenters, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Replace Obsolete Critical 15K PSI Components Completed 7 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Robotic Optical Monitor for High Throughput Crystal Growth Experiments, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Predictive Modeling of Complex Contoured Composite Structures Completed 4 Human-System Performance Modeling Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Computer Code to Model Loop Heat Pipe Transients, Phase I Completed — Heat Transport Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A TOOL FOR THE DESIGN OF SAFETY-CRITICAL SPACE CREW SURVIVAL SYSTEMS, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
FLEET for Unseeded Velocity Measurements in All Speed Regimes Completed 2 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Investigation of Penetrant Inspection Corner Crack Detectability Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Simulation Framework for Design and Analysis of Space Propulsion Systems, Phase I Completed — Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Multi-disciplinary Multiphase Flow Analyzer, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Omnidirectional Narrow Band Pass, band Pass and Band Blocking IR Filters, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Rapidly Extending And Contracting Tubular (REACT) Boom System Development Completed 2 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Wallops Flight Facility 2018-10-10 —
Exploiting Unusual Characteristics of Photonic Crystals for Novel Optical Device, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Clear Space Durable Polymer for Ultra-Lightweight Structures and Optics, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Continuing Progress in Soft X-ray Polarimetry Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
Standoff Ultra-Compact Raman (SUCR) system Development for faster daytime mineralogy and Raman Imaging Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Variable Speed Rotor System, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Deployable Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE), Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Hybrid Data System and Ion Detector for TOF Mass Spectrometry, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Ultra-Lightweight, High Efficiency Silicon-Carbide (SIC) Based Power Electronic Converters, Phase II Completed — Real-Time Software Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Micro-Cathode Arc Thruster (μCAT) System Development Completed 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
ENTERPRISE COMPONENT INTEGRATION SYSTEM (eCIS), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Reconfigurable, Decentralized Framework for Formation Flying Control, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
A Wireless Smart Sensor System for Monitoring EMG Signals, Phase I Completed — Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Compact High-Efficiency Ka-Band RF Amplifier, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Low Cost Al/Diamond Composites for Thermal Management Applications, Phase II Completed — Measurement and Control Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Low-Cost, Integrated Ground Test, Simulation, and Flight Control Development Environment, Phase I Completed — Aeroelasticity 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.