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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 363 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Integrated LED/Imaging Illumination Panels Demonstrated within a Small Plant Growth Chamber Completed 6 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Facilities GIS Modeling for the REACT System Project Completed 5 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Mobile Application Development: Component Retrieval System Project Completed 2 — Stennis Space Center 2026-02-15 —
Propellantless Pointing and Momentum Management Technology for Deep Space Science Missions Completed 3 GN&C Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Lunar Dust Technology Development to Enable Mission Success Completed 2 Ground, Test, and Surface Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Lightweight Compact Deployable Radiator Completed 2 Thermal Management Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Piezo-Actuated Cavitation Inducer Completed 2 Entry, Descent, and Landing Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
LATTICE-2: Laser Additive Technique Tailored for Ir Catalyst Engineering Part-2 Completed 2 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
RP/Ox Staged Combustion Operability for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines Completed 2 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Application of Probabilistic Damage Tolerance Analysis Completed 4 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Graphene-reinforced Membranes for Breakthrough Solar Sail Propulsion Completed 2 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Software Development and Testing for an Autonomous Lunar Ground-Based Cognitive RF Network Completed 2 GN&C Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Novel Ultra High Temperature Method for Measuring Mechanical Properties for Systems Modeling Completed 2 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
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 2026-02-15 —
Cryogenic Phase Change Material Development Completed 2 Thermal Management Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Low-Mass, Low-Leakage Cryogenic Dual-Motion Valve Development Completed 3 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Development and verification of a design tool for highly-tailored composite structures Completed 1 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Variable View Factor Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) Completed 2 Thermal Management Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Damage-Tolerant, Lightweight, High-Temperature Radiator for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft, Year 1 Completed 2 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Flexible Electrostatic Tools for Capture & Handling, Year 1 (FETCH) Completed 4 Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Development Lorentz Force Propulsion Feasibility Study Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Improving the Thermal Conductivity of Copper-Carbon Nanotube (Cu-CNT) Composites using Innovative Coating Techniques Completed 2 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Targeted Structural Optimization with Additive Manufacturing of Metals Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Green Application for Space Power Completed 4 Earth Storable Propellants Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Cubesat Attitude Control System Completed 4 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Pulsed Superconductor Technology Completed 3 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Flexible Hybrid Battery Pseudocapacitor, Year 1 Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Network-based Navigation Completed 2 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Day and Night Energy Harvesting Completed 3 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Radiator for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft, Year 1 Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Directional Wide-Angle Range Finder (DWARF) Completed 5 — Marshall Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Game Changing Usage of High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems as Extremely Large Antennas for Space Physical and Geophysical Remote Imaging Completed 5 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Precision Vapor Deposited Coatings for Detector and Optical Coupling Applications Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Microcalorimeters for Solar Observations Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Nanostructures for Advanced Imaging and Detector Devices, Year 2 Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Fabrication of Partially Transparent Petaled Masks Using Gray Scale Lithography Completed 4 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Target Study for NASA Planetary Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument Completed 6 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Scotch-Tape Mirror for Hard X-rays, Year 1 Completed 1 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
High Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy Circumventing the Quantum Limit Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Development of Breakthrough Technology for Spaceflight Microwave Radiometers' RFI Noise Detection and Mitigation Based on the HHT2 Completed 3 Spectrum Efficiency Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
ISS Leak Detection and Astrophysics with Lobster-Eye x-Ray Detector Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
A Low G Ideal Integrating Bolometer, Year 1 Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
A Micro-Cylindrical Ion Trap (µ-CIT) Micro-Mass Spectrometer Instrument System (µ-MSIS) for NASA Planetary Exploration Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Adaptive Trajectory Design (ATD) Completed 7 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Broad Bandwidth Meta-Material Antireflection Coatings for Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Comprehensive NASA Cis-Lunar Earth Moon Libration Orbit Reference and Web Application Completed 7 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
ALD Modified Nanostructured Geometries for Rectification and MEMS Thermal Control Completed 6 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers - an Enabling Technology for 3D Integrated Circuits, Year 1 Completed 4 Heat Transport Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Silicon Wafer X-ray Mirror Completed 5 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Low Thrust Trajectory Design for GSFC Missions Completed 4 — Goddard Space Flight Center 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.