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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.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,176 projects harvested so far — page 359 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Hot Structures Advanced Lightweight Powder Metallurgy (HALP-ACO ) Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Lockheed Martin Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Dust Mitigation Standards (DM-Stndrd) Completed — Portable Life Support System Kennedy Space Center 2026-02-13 —
RAMPT - Refractory Alloy Additive Manufacturing Build Optimization (RAMPT-RAAMBO) Completed 4 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) Completed 4 Architecture and Design of Autonomous Systems Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
High TRL Rover Lidar (HTRL) Completed 6 Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
ISRU-Advanced Alkaline Electrolyzer (AAE-BAA) Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
RAMPT - Optimized and Repeatable Components in Additive Manufacturing (RAMPT-ORCA) Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
Reactive Additive Manufacturing for Fourth Industrial Revolution Exploration Systems (RAMFIRE-ACO) Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion — 2026-02-13 —
Health Sensors for Inflatable habitats (HSI-TP) Completed 6 Habitation Systems Mentium Technologies Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Rad-Tolerant Neuromorphic Processor (RadNeuro) Canceled 5 High-Performance Processors Intel Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Ultra Fast Proximity Charging (UFPC-TP) Completed 5 Distribution and Transmission CLPS Rovers 2026-02-13 —
Thruster for the Advancement of Low-temperature Operation in Space (TALOS) Completed 5 Earth Storable Propellants Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
Advanced Alkaline Reversible Cell (AARC-ACO) Completed 4 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables PH Matter, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Development of Low-Cost High Temperature Reusable Thermal Protection System (LCHT TPS - ACO) Completed — Thermal Protection Systems Johnson Space Center 2026-02-13 —
Bulk Metallic Glass Gears - Implementation (BMGG-I) Completed 6 Materials for Extreme Environments Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-13 —
Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor Demonstration (COPR-TP) Completed 6 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Sierra Nevada Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Space Robot Operating System (SpaceROS-ACO) Completed 5 Robot Software Blue Origin, LLC 2026-02-13 —
ISRU-RedWater (RW-BAA) Completed 6 Other Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2026-02-13 —
Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA) Completed 7 Robotic Systems Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Astrobotic Terrain Relative Navigation and Visual Velocimetry Sensor (ATRN-TP) Completed 9 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Commercial Wind Constellation (CWCx - ACO) Completed — Lasers Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Micro-grid Definition and Interface Converter for Planetary Surface (MIPS) Completed 5 Distribution and Transmission Glenn Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Mechanically Strong Polymide Aerogels (MSPA-ACO) Completed 4 Materials for Extreme Environments Aerogel Technologies 2026-02-13 —
Metal Oxidation Warming System Fuel Cell (MOWS-TP) Completed 4 Heating Systems Astrobotic Technology, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Increasing Engine Life & Thrust/Weight Through Characterization of Additively Manufactured Alloys (ELT-ACO) Completed 5 Materials Blue Origin, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Hypersonic Instrumentation Testing for Thermal Protection Systems (HITTPS-ACO) Completed 5 Environment Sensors Ahmic Aerospace 2026-02-13 —
ISRU-ISRU Hydrogen Oxygen Production (IHOP-BAA) Completed 5 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Paragon Space Development Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Additively Manufactured TPS Arc Jet Evaluation (MTPS-ACO) Completed 5 Thermal Protection Systems Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Manufacturing (FSW-ACO) Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Spirit AeroSystems 2026-02-13 —
UPper STAge Recovery (UPSTAR-ACO) Completed 5 Aerothermodynamics Sierra Nevada Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Rad-hard Power Controller Development (RPCD-TP) Completed 6 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation Apogee Semiconductor, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
ISRU-O2 Production on Mars (O2PM-BAA) Completed 6 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables OxEon Energy, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Relevant Environment Additive Construction Technology (REACT-ACO) Completed 4 Surface Construction and Assembly AI SpaceFactory, Inc. 2026-02-13 —
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) Completed 8 Destination Resource Exploration Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-13 —
Dust Mitigation Development (DM-DEV) Completed 5 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Glenn Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Universal Combustion Device Stability (UCDS-ACO) Completed 9 Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Integrated System for Autonomous and Adaptive Caretaking (ISAAC) Completed 6 Robotic Systems Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Lunar Underactuated Robotic Arm (LUnA-TP) Completed 6 Dexterous Manipulation Maxar Technologies 2026-02-13 —
Precision Assembled Space Structure (PASS) Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Frontier Aerospace Corp Engine Testing (FACET-TP) Completed 5 Earth Storable Propellants Frontier Aerospace Corporation 2026-02-13 —
Bang-Bang Propellant Feed System (BBPro-ACO) Completed 5 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Space Systems/Loral, LLC 2026-02-13 —
Manufacturing Initiative Completed 6 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-13 —
Kilopower Small Fission Technology (KP) Completed 5 — Glenn Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Mars Entry Descent and Landing Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2) Completed 9 Thermal Protection Systems Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Rapid Cycle Amine (RCA) Swing Bed Completed 5 Portable Life Support System Johnson Space Center 2026-02-13 —
Asteroid Capture Robotics Completed 4 — Johnson Space Center 2026-02-13 —
High Temperature PPU Canceled 5 Electrostatic Propulsion Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) Completed 6 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Heat Shield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET) Completed 6 — Ames Research Center 2026-02-13 —
Phase Change Material (PCM) Heat Exchanger Development Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center 2026-02-13 —
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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.