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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 363 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Holistic High-Fidelity Modeling Strategy for Advanced Composites Completed 4 — Langley Research Center
Additive Manufacturing of Magnesium (Mg) Alloys Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center
Multi-Functional All BN-BN Composites, Year 1 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Off-Body Pressure Measurements using Femtosecond CARS Completed 3 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center
Photon sieve telescope evaluation for use with lidar systems Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Self-Healing Structural Materials: Mechanoresponsive Healing Polymers Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Earth Science Data Fusion Workflow Engine Completed 9 — Langley Research Center
Autonomous Assembly of Solar Array Modules by a Team of Robots, Year 1 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Compact and Highly Efficient Multi-Purpose Laser, Year 1 Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Metamaterial-Backed Conformal Antennas for Space Exploration Completed 3 Innovative Antennas Langley Research Center
Pyroelectric Quantum Well Energy Harvesters Completed 5 — Langley Research Center
Machine Learning Algorithms for Physics-Based Simulations Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Doppler Lidar for Measurement of High-Altitude Aircraft Wake Vortices, Year 2 Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Novel Nanotechnology for Radiation Protection Completed 2 — Langley Research Center
Hybrid Active-Passive Radiation Shielding System Completed 6 Protection Systems Langley Research Center
Multi-Functional All BN-BN Composites, Year 2 Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center
Mars Electric Reusable Flyer, Year 1 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center
Drag Reduction and Flight Control Using Off-Body Energy Deposition, Year 1 Completed 3 Aerodynamics Langley Research Center
Optimized Lift for Autonomous Formation Flight, Year 2 Completed 3 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Structural Health Monitoring of Flight Structures, Year 1 Completed 4 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Inverse Finite Element Method Investigation for Adaptive Structures Project Completed 4 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Optimized Lift for Autonomous Formation Flight, Year 1 Completed 3 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Acoustic Diagnostics of Turbofan Health Monitoring Element, Year 2 Completed 6 — Armstrong Flight Research Center
Mars Micro-Mapping Mineralogical Spectrometer, Year 1 (MMMS) Completed 6 Optical Components Ames Research Center
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets around Alpha Centauri and Other Multiple Star Systems Completed 8 — Ames Research Center
Use of 3D Printing and Rapid Manufacturing to Optimize Dragon Eye UAS for Volcanic Sampling Mission Completed 7 — Ames Research Center
Nano Entry System for CubeSat-Class Payloads (Nano-ADEPT) Completed 6 Hypersonic Decelerators Ames Research Center
Game Changing Transformable Entry System Technology (TEST) Applicability to Robotic Venus Science Missions, Year 2 Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Ouroboros Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
NanoSatellite Thermal Overload Protection System (nSTOPS) Completed 4 — Ames Research Center
Manipulating the Toughness of Rocks through Electric Potentials, Year 2 Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Synthetic biology assemblies for sustainable space exploration Completed 2 — Ames Research Center
Satellite Integration of a PhoneSat-EDSN bus with a micro cathode arc thruster Completed 6 Electrostatic Propulsion Ames Research Center
Tensegrity Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Modulating Retro-Reflectors: High-Speed Asymmetric Laser Communications with Low-Fidelity Pointing Requirements Element, Year 1 Completed 3 Innovative Signal Modulations Ames Research Center
Development of the NASA Ames Imaging Module (AIM) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Ames Research Center
Low Cost Mars Sample Return Utilizing Dragon Lander Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
A New Approach to Uncertainty Reduction in Launch Vehicle Compartment Venting Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Ames Collaboration of Signs of Life Detector Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Novel Photobioreactor Development for Space Applications, Year 1 Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Biobrick Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
A Radiation Nose for monitoring radiation in space missions Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Deployable Telescope for Compact Spectropolarimeter Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Guidance and Control Architecture Design and Demonstration for Low Ballistic Coefficient Atmospheric Entry Completed 3 Hypersonic Decelerators Ames Research Center
Woven TPS A Revolutionary Approach to Tailorable TPS Design & Manufacturing for Thermal Management Systems & Entry, Descent & Landing Systems, Year 2 Completed 3 Thermal Protection Systems Ames Research Center
A Framework for telerobotics across the time delays of space Completed 3 Remote Interaction Ames Research Center
Application of Carbon Nanotubes to Tensegrity Robots Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Micro-atmospheric Microwell Plate Technology Completed 2 — Ames Research Center
Biologically-Inspired Machine Intelligence for NASA's Missions, Systems, and Facilities Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Method for Producing Launch/Landing Pads and Structures Completed 3 — Kennedy Space 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.