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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 362 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Ultra-Low Noise Vertical Takeoff and Landing, or Development of an Uber Self-Flying, Helipad-Capable, Quiet V-ESTOL Personal Transporter Integrated Flight Demonstrator Completed 4 Aeroacoustics Langley Research Center
Solar Paint for Multifunctionality of Structures in Space Exploration Completed 5 — Langley Research Center
Multi-Parameter Measurement in Unseeded Flows Using Femtosecond Lasers, Year 1 Completed 5 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center
Drag Reduction by Off-Body Energy Deposition, Year 2 Completed 4 Aerodynamics Langley Research Center
Holey Nanocarbon Architectures for High Performance Li-Air Batteries, Year 2 Completed 2 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Langley Research Center
BNNT EDL/Aerocapture Tension Shell Concept Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
RadioFrequency Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs), Year 3 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Piezoelectric Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Mars Electric Reusable Flyer, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Light weight Telescope Systems Using Novel Nano-layered Synthesized Material, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Functionalized CNTs for Composites with Little to No Resin Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center
A Novel Approach of Sensitive Infrared Signal Detection for Space Applications Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center
Radically New, Hyperbolic Navier-Stokes Solver for Complex Simulations, Year 2 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Neuromorphic UAS Collision Avoidance, Year 1 Completed 3 GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy Langley Research Center
High Strength Structures by Carbon Nanotube Resonant Excitation Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method to Reduce Laser Power, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Light weight Telescope Systems Using Novel Nano-layered Synthesized Material, Year 1 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Solid State Hydrogen Storage Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Neuromorphic UAS Collision Avoidance, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Multifunctional Hot Structures Heat Shield Completed 7 Thermal Protection Systems Langley Research Center
LEAPTech Distributed Electric Propulsion Completed 4 All-Electric Propulsion Langley Research Center
Multilevel Control & Optimization of Future Air Traffic Systems via Managem, Year 1 Completed 1 Traffic Management Concepts Langley Research Center
Autonomous Flocking and Cooperative Control of Multi- Vehicle Systems Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Rare earth doped thin film waveguide for mid infrared lasers Completed 1 Lasers Langley Research Center
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method, Year 3 Completed 5 — Langley Research Center
FLEET for Unseeded Velocity Measurements in All Speed Regimes Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method to Reduce Laser Power, Year 1 Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Control of Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator Entry Vehicles Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Plasma SansEC Cosmic Radiation Shielding for Spacecraft Completed 6 Protection Systems Langley Research Center
Nuclear Photo Electron Avalanche Cell, Year 2 (NPEAC) Completed 4 — Langley Research Center
Fast Solar Sailing for Solar System Exploration Completed 4 Solar Sails Langley Research Center
Cloud and tree canopy thickness detection from low resolution Lidars Completed 7 Lasers Langley Research Center
BxCyNz Nanotube Development and Characterization, Year 2 Completed 1 — Langley Research Center
BxCyNz Nanotube Development and Characterization, Year 1 Completed 1 — Langley Research Center
Rhombohedral Hybrid Crystal Semiconductor Device Completed 4 — Langley Research Center
Multi-Parameter Measurement in Unseeded Flows using Femtosecond Lasers, Year 3 Completed 4 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center
Silicon Germanium Quantum Well Solar Cell Completed 4 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Langley Research Center
Ice Dome Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Low-Cost Small Satellite Atmospheric Rotating Solar Occultation Imager, Year 2 (ROI) Completed 4 — Langley Research Center
Holey Nanocarbon Architectures for High Performance Li-Air Batteries, Year 1 Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Langley Research Center
Nuclear Photo-Electron Avalanche Cells (NPEAC) Generator Completed 4 Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Langley Research Center
Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Piezoelectric Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Year 1 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Holey Nanocarbon Architectures for High Performance Li-Air Batteries, Year 3 Completed 2 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Langley Research Center
Plasma Spray Synthesis of High Purity Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Year 1 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
3D Numerical Realization of FRP Microstructure from High-Res X-Ray CT Completed 6 — Langley Research Center
Computational Design of Ageless Materials Completed 9 Manufacturing Processes Langley Research Center
Self-Healing Structural Materials for Damage Tolerant Aerospace Vehicles, Year 2 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Functionally Graded, Load Optimized Structure via Additive Manufacturing Techniques, Year 2 Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Langley Research Center
Multiple Wavelength Quantum Dot Laser Completed 5 Lasers Langley Research Center
Mid-Infrared Lasers Completed 2 — Langley Research 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.