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 34 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
An X-ray Communication Flight Demonstration on STP-H6 (XCOM)	Completed	7	Optimetrics	Goddard Space Flight Center
Leveraging charge-integration of microchannel plate detectors for the next generation of fast plasma instrumentation	Completed	6	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Multiple Process Support for cFS	Completed	4	Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development	Goddard Space Flight Center
Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast System for Traffic Situational Awareness	Completed	7	Aircraft Avionics Systems	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Towed Glider Air Launch System (TGALS)	Completed	—	Flight Mechanics Testing and Flight Operations	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Acoustic Detection of Aircraft Turbine Cooling Hole Clogging	Completed	2	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Altitude Compensating Nozzle	Completed	—	Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Expandable Variable-Autonomy Architecture (EVAA)	Completed	3	GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Characterize Human Forward Contamination: Advanced Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Spacesuits	Completed	1	Portable Life Support System	Johnson Space Center
Miniature Exercise Device (MED)	Completed	5	Loads and Vibration	Johnson Space Center
Characterize Human Forward Contamination: Advanced Life Support	Completed	1	Water Recovery and Management	Johnson Space Center
Materials Manufactured from 3D-Printed Synthetic Biology Arrays: 3D Printing Mechanism for Synthetic Biomaterial Production	Completed	3	Manufacturing Processes	Ames Research Center
Materials Manufactured from 3D-Printed Synthetic Biology Arrays: Cell Chassis for Synthetic Biomaterial Production	Completed	2	Computational Materials	Ames Research Center
Materials Manufactured from 3D-Printed Synthetic Biology Arrays: Cell Printing Substrate for Synthetic Biomaterial Production	Completed	2	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Ames Research Center
Materials Manufactured from 3D-Printed Synthetic Biology Arrays: Cell Printing Medium for Synthetic Biomaterial Production	Completed	3	Loads and Vibration	Ames Research Center
Autonomous Navigation, Dynamic Path and Work Flow Planning in Multi-Agent Robotic Swarms: Autonomy	Completed	2	Microgravity Construction and Assembly	Kennedy Space Center
Autonomous Navigation, Dynamic Path and Work Flow Planning in Multi-Agent Robotic Swarms: Path and Motion Planning with Uncertainty	Completed	2	Path Planning	Kennedy Space Center
Large Scale Reduction of Graphite Oxide	Completed	3	Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage	Kennedy Space Center
Large Scale Reduction of Graphite Oxide: Large format reduction of graphite oxide	Completed	3	Logistics Management	Kennedy Space Center
Plasma Treatment of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)	Completed	4	Logistics Management	Kennedy Space Center
Lunar Uncrewed Explorer Tool (LUNEXT)	Completed	4	Ground and Surface Logistics	Kennedy Space Center
Simulated Excavation Environment for Lunar Operations Follow-on (SEELO)	Completed	4	Modeling and Simulation for Robots	Kennedy Space Center
Parabolic and Suborbital Glovebox in Support of Space Crop Production	Completed	4	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
Ultra-Low-Noise Sub-mm/Far-IR Detectors for Space-Based Telescopes	Completed	3	Distributed Aperture	—
FY15 GRC: Advanced Terrain Imaging with Communication Signals	Completed	2	Optimetrics	Glenn Research Center
Long-Path OH Absorption Measurement: Optical telescope	Completed	3	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Instrument for Trace Gas Measurements	Completed	—	Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of a Compact High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer i (CHRIS)	Completed	3	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
In Situ Mass Spectrometer	Completed	—	Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment	Goddard Space Flight Center
Improved optical planar waveguides for lasers	Completed	2	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Digital Radio Prototype	Completed	4	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
STMD Laser Lifetest Program Space Gradiometer	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Multi-Spacecraft Multi-Objective Interplanetary Global Trajectory Optimization Transcription	Completed	1	Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis	Goddard Space Flight Center
Determination of Absolute Plate Spacing for the Fabry-Perot Subassembly of the Thermosphere Imager for Global Observations	Completed	1	Mirror Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Hyperspectral Single Pixel Image Sensor (HyperSPIS)	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
LabNotes: A Mobile App for Instrument Control and Data Collection	Completed	4	Docking and Berthing Mechanisms and Fixtures	Goddard Space Flight Center
Next Generation Multi-mode Remote Sensing Radar	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Applications for Ensemble Detection and Analysis (EDA)	Completed	2	Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces	Goddard Space Flight Center
Deep Learning for Super-Resolution of Time Series Satellite Images	Completed	2	Intelligent Data Understanding	Goddard Space Flight Center
PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF CRYOGENIC HYDROGEN RADIATION SHIELD FOR HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT	Completed	2	Protection Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
W-band Solid State Transceiver for Cloud Radar (CRS)	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Multi-Channel Optical Digitizer for Earth Sciences	Completed	—	Electronics	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Strained-Layer Superlattice (SLS) IR Detector Camera Project	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Large-array Far-infrared Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Demonstration	Completed	3	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Single Crystal Silicon Mirrors for Spaceflight	Completed	1	Mirror Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard radio-frequency explorer Radio frequency Interference real time Display system (GRID)	Completed	—	Spectrum Efficiency	Goddard Space Flight Center
Onboard Blackbody Calibrator Component Development for IR Remote Sensing Instrumentation	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Reconfigurable Broadband Sensor Signal Processing Platform for Cross-Cutting Instruments (COMP-X)	Completed	3	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Efficient Radiation Shielding Through Direct Metal Laser Sintering	Completed	6	Protection Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Micro-Cylindrical Ion Trap (Âµ-CIT) Micro-Mass Spectrometer Instrument System (Âµ-MSIS) for NASA Planetary Exploration	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight 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.