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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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 359 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Four Thruster Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion (MEP) Cubesat Board Demonstration, Year 1 Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Higher performance and lower cost optical DPSK receiver Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Developing Castable Metal Harmonic Drives, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Waveguide-integrated MKIDs for on-chip high-resolution near-infrared spectrometers Completed 7 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Development of Organic FET (OFET)-Based Flexible Integrated Controller for Deformable Mirrors, Year 2 Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Interplanetary Autonomous Navigation with Pulsars, Year 2 Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
FLAT: Folded Low-profile Autonomous star Tracker for cubesats/smallsats Project Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 2 Completed 4 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Jet Propulsion Laboratory
First Demonstration of Pulsar Positioning System, Year 1 (PPS) Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Variable and Adaptive Coded Modulation for Cognitive Networking, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Fabrication Process Development for Light Deformable Mirrors, Year 2 Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Next Generation Broadband Grating for Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Imagers, Year 1 Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Developing Castable Metal Harmonic Drives, Year 2 Canceled 4 Mechanical Drive Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
100GB Rad Tolerant Solid State Drive (SSD), Year 1 (SSD) Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Temperature Superconductor Resonator Detectors, Year 2 Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Simplified laser frequency stabilization using spatial-mode interference Completed 4 Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Novel Methodology for Control and Stabilization of Spacecraft with Captured Asteroid, Year 2 Completed 3 Robot Control for Vehicle Capture and Berthing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MoSi SNSPDs with reduced cryogenic requirements Completed 3 Detector Development Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Demonstration of 6DOF Arc-mim/mm Control in the FCT Using Proba-3 Metrology and Control System, Year 2 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hypothesis-Driven Microexplorers, Year 2 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Validation of Autonomous Space Systems Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Enabling Nanosat Mobility and Autonomy for Small Bodies Exploration, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Compact Spectrometers Based on Linear Variable Filters Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tiny Open-Loop Atmospheric Sensing Technique, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tiny Open-Loop Atmospheric Sensing Technique, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3D Printed Magnetic-to-Non-magnetic Gradient Alloy Cold Encoder Shafts for Prediction and Control of Magnetic Permeability, Year 2 Completed 5 Tests, Tools, and Methods Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Inflatable Antennas for CubeSats Communication and Science in Deep Space, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
On Sky Observation of Delta doped CCDs Project Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Active Millimeter and Submillimeter Sensing Applications Project Completed 1 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PEAC: A Power-Efficient Adaptive Computing Technology for Enabling Swarm of Small Spacecraft and Deployable Mini-Payloads Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Novel Methodology for Control and Stabilization of Spacecraft with Captured Asteroid, Year 1 Completed 6 Robot Control for Vehicle Capture and Berthing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High-Frequency Antenna Arrays and Coupling Structures Project Completed 2 Structures and Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rapid Advanced Heliocentric Mission Design for L3, L4, L5, NEO Rendezvous, Capture, Sample Return, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hypothesis-Driven Microexplorers, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Solid-State Magnetometer for Vectorized Field Sensing in Harsh Planetary Environments Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MEMS Shutter for Spectrometer Calibration Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ultra-Low Power Extreme Environment Capable Avionics System-on-a-Chip Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Inflatable Antennas for CubeSats Communication and Science in Deep Space, Year 1 Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Replicating Active Thin Mirrors (JPL) Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MHz pulsed microchip lasers for planetary Raman spectrometers Completed 7 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nonlinear Optical Terahertz Technology Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Micro Mercury Ion Clock (MMIC) Project Completed 2 Timekeeping and Time Distribution Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Resilient Space Systems Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distributed Pyro Initiation System Project Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Demonstration of Autonomous Navigation for Deep Space CubeSat Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
All-Metal Dual-Polarized W-band Patch Element for Phased Array Antenna Applications, Year 2 Completed 2 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rapid Advanced Heliocentric Mission Design for L3, L4, L5, NEO Rendezvous, Capture, Sample Return, Year 3 Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Electronics Modernization Project Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Novel Highly Efficient Compact Rotary-Hammering Planetary Sampler Actuated by a Single Piezoelectric Actuator Project Completed 3 Mechanical Drive Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.