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 26 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Better Pressure Vessel Impact Resistance Utilizing Filament Wound Hybrid Fibers., Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Marshall Space Flight Center
Optical Method for Real-Time Turbine Blade Tip Clearance Measurement, Phase I	Completed	—	Turbine-Based Combined Cycle	Ames Research Center
Kinetic Molecular Dynamic Model of Hall Thruster Channel Wall Erosion, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrostatic Propulsion	Glenn Research Center
FIR Detectors/Cameras Based on GaN and Si Field-Effect Devices, Phase I	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Langley Research Center
Composite Grids for Ion Thruster, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
STO-2: Support for 4th Year Operations, Recovery, and Science JHU/APL Co-I	Completed	7	Distributed Aperture	—
Low Erosion Ceramic Composite Liners for Improved Performance of Ablative Rocket Thrust Chambers, Phase II	Completed	6	Cryogenic Propulsion	Langley Research Center
Highly Reliable LOX Pump for Vehicle Loading Operations, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Kennedy Space Center
Trajectory and Performance Models for Earth and Planetary Balloons, Phase II	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Goddard Space Flight Center
Trojan Phage Crystallization System, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Force Sensor for Robotics, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Johnson Space Center
Fabry-Perot Double-Cavity Optically Controlled Narrow Tunable Bandpass Filter, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Goddard Space Flight Center
AlN 3D Thermal Packaging, Phase I	Completed	—	Electronic Packaging and Implementations	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mobility and Sensing Technology (MST)	Completed	3	Surface Mobility	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Novel Ultra-compact Star Scanner	Completed	3	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Thermally Conductive Tape Based on Carbon Nanotube Array, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Protection Materials	Goddard Space Flight Center
SiC-Microhotplate Sensor Array for Spacecraft Environmental Monitoring, Phase I	Completed	—	Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset	Johnson Space Center
Development of an Engine Air-Brake for Quiet Drag Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Langley Research Center
The Impact of Star Formation & Galactic Environment on the Circumgalactic Medium	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	—
Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Imager Dual Slit Implementation (COEDI)	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	NASA Headquarters
Dust-Tolerant, Reusable Connection Mechanism for Lunar Environments, Phase II	Completed	—	Destination Resource Exploration	Johnson Space Center
Hyperspectral TIR Camera for Geostationary Earth Observation	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	NASA Headquarters
Automated Digital Elevation Extraction from Multispectral Imaging Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset	Stennis Space Center
A Cooperative Multi-Robot Control Architecture, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Marshall Space Flight Center
Shaped Field Giant Magnetoresistive Sensor Arrays for Materials Testing, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Langley Research Center
Thermal Stir Welding of High Strength and High Temperature Alloys for Aerospace Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Smart Materials	Marshall Space Flight Center
An ADS-B Emergency Respone System for NextGen Airspace Safety, Phase I	Completed	—	Traffic Management Concepts	Ames Research Center
High Speed Magnetostrictive MEMS Actuated Mirror Deflectors, Phase I	Completed	—	Data Reduction Hardware Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Rayleigh/Mie Lidar for Non-intrusive Measurement of Aircraft Air Data Parameters, Phase II	Completed	—	Measurement and Control	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Low-Power Aircraft Deicing System, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Optical switches for secure quantum encryption data transmission network, Phase I	Completed	—	Quantum Communications	Ames Research Center
Novel Cryogenic Actuator Development	Completed	6	Mechanism-Life-Extension Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Void Fraction Sensor for Packed-Bed Reactors in Microgravity, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Life Prediction for FRP composites with Data Fusion & Machine Learning	Completed	1	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Langley Research Center
High Efficiency MEMS Based Cryocooler, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Ames Research Center
Broad Application of a Reconfigurable Motor Controller, Phase I	Completed	—	Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems	Johnson Space Center
Drag &Drop, Multiphysics & Neural Net-based Lab-on-Chip Optimization Software, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Control Analysis	Glenn Research Center
Novel Titanium-based Lattice Block Structures, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
Powering Satellites Using a 2 Micron Crystal Fiber Laser, Phase I	Completed	—	Lasers	Marshall Space Flight Center
Octet, Phase I	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
Environmental Control Subsystems for Hyperbaric Chambers, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Johnson Space Center
Real-time GPS Signal Simulator	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
Cassette Based Robotic Multiple Cell Culture System, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Johnson Space Center
Thermochemical Energy Conversion Engine for Electricity Generation, Phase I	Completed	—	Decompression Sickness Mitigation	Johnson Space Center
SWaP Reduction for Lost-Cost Star Tracker	Completed	5	Attitude Estimation Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Compact, Ultrasensitive Formaldehyde Monitor, Phase II	Completed	3	Monitoring Technology	Ames Research Center
3D Antenna Array and GPS Receiver for Combined Navigation/Attitude Determination, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Lightweight Active Nanolaminate Mirror with Wireless Shape Control, Phase I	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lightweight radiation shielding materials with carbon nanotube reinforcements, Phase II	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Langley Research Center
High power density metal junction thermoelectric (TE) power generators	Completed	1	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Langley 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.

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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.