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 360 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Cubesat Constellations for Heliophysics Project	Completed	2	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Temperature Superconductor Resonator Detectors, Year 1	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Operational Temperature MWIR detectors with optical concentrators, Year 1	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Frequency Agile Optical Communications Laser	Completed	7	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 3	Completed	5	Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In-Space Hybrid Energy Storage System Demonstration on CSUNSat1	Completed	9	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nanofabricated Optomechanical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators, Year 1	Completed	2	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Free Form Mirrors for Ultra Compact High Speed Optical Systems Project	Completed	5	Mirror Systems	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Fabrication Process Development for Light Deformable Mirrors, Year 1	Completed	2	Mirror Systems	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Printed Spacecraft Workshop Project	Completed	3	—	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Low Power Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers from 1-300GHz Project	Completed	2	Electronics	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Four Thruster Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion (MEP) Cubesat Board Demonstration, Year 2	Completed	3	Electrostatic Propulsion	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Subnanosecond scintillation detector for high energy cosmic rays Project	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T6 Ion Thruster Technology Development Project	Completed	4	Electrostatic Propulsion	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 4	Completed	7	Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mobile Platform Development for SSC Propulsion Test Operations, Year 1	Completed	4	—	Stennis Space Center
Hot Hydrogen Heat Source Development Project	Completed	3	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Stennis Space Center
Novel Data Acquisition and controls System (DACS) Demonstration Project	Completed	5	—	Stennis Space Center
Self-Contained Portable Data Acquisition/Control System Unit for Hydrogen Environments Project	Completed	5	—	Stennis Space Center
High Power Density, Lightweight Thermoelectric Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting	Completed	3	Dynamic Energy Conversion	Stennis Space Center
Cryogenic Acoustic Suppression Testing Project	Completed	3	Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation	Stennis Space Center
Innovation Center Smart Light for Enhancing Creativity Project	Completed	6	—	Stennis Space Center
Oxygen Containment System Options for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Testing Project	Completed	3	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Stennis Space Center
Optical Interferometry with Flexible Coherent Fiber Bundle for Measuring Deposits or Contamination on Surfaces and Inside Tubes Project	Completed	4	—	Stennis Space Center
Subscale Design of an NTP Engine Exhaust Containment System	Completed	3	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Stennis Space Center
Development of CFD Approaches for Modeling Advanced Concepts of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Test Facilities	Completed	4	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Stennis Space Center
An Intelligent Strain Gauge with Debond Detection and Temperature Compensation	Completed	6	—	Stennis Space Center
Integrated LED/Imaging Illumination Panels Demonstrated within a Small Plant Growth Chamber	Completed	6	—	Stennis Space Center
Facilities GIS Modeling for the REACT System Project	Completed	5	—	Stennis Space Center
Mobile Application Development: Component Retrieval System Project	Completed	2	—	Stennis Space Center
Propellantless Pointing and Momentum Management Technology for Deep Space Science Missions	Completed	3	GN&C	Marshall Space Flight Center
Lunar Dust Technology Development to Enable Mission Success	Completed	2	Ground, Test, and Surface Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Lightweight Compact Deployable Radiator	Completed	2	Thermal Management Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Piezo-Actuated Cavitation Inducer	Completed	2	Entry, Descent, and Landing	Marshall Space Flight Center
LATTICE-2: Laser Additive Technique Tailored for Ir Catalyst Engineering Part-2	Completed	2	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
RP/Ox Staged Combustion Operability for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines	Completed	2	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Application of Probabilistic Damage Tolerance Analysis	Completed	4	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Marshall Space Flight Center
Graphene-reinforced Membranes for Breakthrough Solar Sail Propulsion	Completed	2	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Software Development and Testing for an Autonomous Lunar Ground-Based Cognitive RF Network	Completed	2	GN&C	Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Ultra High Temperature Method for Measuring Mechanical Properties for Systems Modeling	Completed	2	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Replicating Epoxy Optical Surfaces on Ceramic Shells to Produce High-Angular-Resolution, Lightweight Full-Shell X-ray Optics	Completed	2	Sensors and Instruments	Marshall Space Flight Center
Cryogenic Phase Change Material Development	Completed	2	Thermal Management Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Low-Mass, Low-Leakage Cryogenic Dual-Motion Valve Development	Completed	3	Propulsion Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Development and verification of a design tool for highly-tailored composite structures	Completed	1	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Marshall Space Flight Center
Variable View Factor Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI)	Completed	2	Thermal Management Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Damage-Tolerant, Lightweight, High-Temperature Radiator for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft, Year 1	Completed	2	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Flexible Electrostatic Tools for Capture & Handling, Year 1 (FETCH)	Completed	4	Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures	Marshall Space Flight Center
Development Lorentz Force Propulsion Feasibility Study	Completed	4	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Improving the Thermal Conductivity of Copper-Carbon Nanotube (Cu-CNT) Composites using Innovative Coating Techniques	Completed	2	—	Marshall Space Flight Center
Targeted Structural Optimization with Additive Manufacturing of Metals	Completed	2	Manufacturing Processes	Marshall 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.

💻 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.