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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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21,176 projects harvested so far — page 361 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
100GB Rad Tolerant Solid State Drive (SSD), Year 2 Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Amorphous Metals for Opto-Mechanical Fixtures and Mechanisms, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Micro-Instrument Accommodation Survey Project Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Nanofabricated Optomechanical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators, Year 2 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Variable and Adaptive Coded Modulation for Cognitive Networking, Year 2 Completed 3 Cognitive Networking Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Optics for SIERRA Project Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
3D Printed Magnetic-to-Non-magnetic Gradient Alloy Cold Encoder Shafts for Prediction and Control of Magnetic Permeability, Year 1 Completed 8 Tests, Tools, and Methods Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Graphene for Space Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
ARES-V Adaptive Resolution Stereo-Vision Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Next Generation Broadband Grating for Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Imagers, Year 2 Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Development of Organic FET (OFET)-Based Flexible Integrated Controller for Deformable Mirrors, Year 1 Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Miniature Universal Sampling System for Scientific Instruments Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Rapid Advanced Heliocentric Mission Design for L3, L4, L5, NEO Rendezvous, Capture, Sample Return, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Interplanetary Autonomous Navigation with Pulsars, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Enabling Ring-Cusp Ion Thruster Technology for NASA Missions, Year 1 Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
All-Metal Dual-Polarized W-band Patch Element for Phased Array Antenna Applications, Year 1 Completed 2 Structures and Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Retrieving Balloon Data in Flight Project Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Enabling Nanosat Mobility and Autonomy for Small Bodies Exploration, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
New Alkali Metal Flow Battery for Terrestrial and Aerospace Energy Storage Applications Project Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Use of heterogeneous regenerators in sub-20K pulse tube applications Project Completed 4 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Gradient Alloy for Optical Packaging Project Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
CIF Yagi & Radio Science Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Amorphous Metals for Opto-Mechanical Fixtures and Mechanisms, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Four Thruster Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion (MEP) Cubesat Board Demonstration, Year 1 Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Higher performance and lower cost optical DPSK receiver Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Developing Castable Metal Harmonic Drives, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Waveguide-integrated MKIDs for on-chip high-resolution near-infrared spectrometers Completed 7 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Development of Organic FET (OFET)-Based Flexible Integrated Controller for Deformable Mirrors, Year 2 Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Interplanetary Autonomous Navigation with Pulsars, Year 2 Completed 6 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
FLAT: Folded Low-profile Autonomous star Tracker for cubesats/smallsats Project Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 2 Completed 4 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
First Demonstration of Pulsar Positioning System, Year 1 (PPS) Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Variable and Adaptive Coded Modulation for Cognitive Networking, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Fabrication Process Development for Light Deformable Mirrors, Year 2 Completed 3 Mirror Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Next Generation Broadband Grating for Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Imagers, Year 1 Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Developing Castable Metal Harmonic Drives, Year 2 Canceled 4 Mechanical Drive Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
100GB Rad Tolerant Solid State Drive (SSD), Year 1 (SSD) Completed 5 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
High Temperature Superconductor Resonator Detectors, Year 2 Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Simplified laser frequency stabilization using spatial-mode interference Completed 4 Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
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 2026-02-15 —
Gecko-Inspired ON-OFF Adhesives for Orbital Debris Mitigation, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
MoSi SNSPDs with reduced cryogenic requirements Completed 3 Detector Development Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Demonstration of 6DOF Arc-mim/mm Control in the FCT Using Proba-3 Metrology and Control System, Year 2 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Hypothesis-Driven Microexplorers, Year 2 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Validation of Autonomous Space Systems Project Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Enabling Nanosat Mobility and Autonomy for Small Bodies Exploration, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Compact Spectrometers Based on Linear Variable Filters Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Tiny Open-Loop Atmospheric Sensing Technique, Year 1 Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
Tiny Open-Loop Atmospheric Sensing Technique, Year 2 Completed 4 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-02-15 —
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 2026-02-15 —
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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.