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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 364 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
A novel material for next generation MEMS and Sensor Devices Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Novel Magnetically-Tuned TES For Imaging X-ray Spectroscopy Missions Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Evaluation of Aerosol Jet Additive Manufacturing of High Density Printed Circuits on Complex Geometries, Year 1 Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
3D Printing Complex Unitized Instrument Optical Benches and Metering Structures Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Miniature optical communication transceiver with imbedded ranging and Doppler measurement capabilities Completed 3 Optimetrics Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Firing Mechanism Concept Design and Testing Infrastructure Development for application to a Sample Acquisition System or other Spacecraft-based Projectile Launching Operation Completed 5 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
Graphene Chemical Sensor Completed 2 — Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-02-15 —
N-2 Contingency Algorithms for Autonomous Traffic Safety Monitoring Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Multilevel Control & Optimization of Future Air Traffic Systems via Management, Year 2 Completed 1 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Uber Self-Flying Helipad-Capable Quiet V-ESTOL Personal Transporter Completed 4 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Ultralight Flexible Shielding Film for Extreme Heat and Radiation Completed 3 Protection Systems Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Deflection Channel Radiation Shielding Completed 2 Protection Systems Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Autonomous Assembly of Solar Array Modules by a Team of Robots, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Functionally Graded, Load Optimized Structure via Additive Manufacturing Techniques, Year 1 Completed 3 Manufacturing Processes Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Aerodynamically Actuated Radical Shape Change Completed 3 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Radically New, Hyperbolic Navier-Stokes Method for Complex Simulations, Year 3 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Radically New, Hyperbolic Navier-Stokes Solver for Complex Simulations, Year 1 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Doped Chiral Polymer Metamaterials Completed 4 Special Materials Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
3-D Numerical Realization of Constituent-Level FRP Composites Using X-Ray Computer Tomography Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Low-Cost Small Satellite Atmospheric Rotating Solar Occultation Imager, Year 1 Completed 5 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Multi-Parameter Measurement in Unseeded Flows Using Femtosecond Lasers, Year 2 Completed 5 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Self-Healing Structural Materials for Damage Tolerant Aerospace Vehicles, Year 1 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
RadioFrequency Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs), Year 2 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
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 2026-02-15 —
Solar Paint for Multifunctionality of Structures in Space Exploration Completed 5 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Multi-Parameter Measurement in Unseeded Flows Using Femtosecond Lasers, Year 1 Completed 5 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Drag Reduction by Off-Body Energy Deposition, Year 2 Completed 4 Aerodynamics Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Holey Nanocarbon Architectures for High Performance Li-Air Batteries, Year 2 Completed 2 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
BNNT EDL/Aerocapture Tension Shell Concept Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
RadioFrequency Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs), Year 3 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Piezoelectric Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Mars Electric Reusable Flyer, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Light weight Telescope Systems Using Novel Nano-layered Synthesized Material, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Functionalized CNTs for Composites with Little to No Resin Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
A Novel Approach of Sensitive Infrared Signal Detection for Space Applications Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Radically New, Hyperbolic Navier-Stokes Solver for Complex Simulations, Year 2 Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Neuromorphic UAS Collision Avoidance, Year 1 Completed 3 GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
High Strength Structures by Carbon Nanotube Resonant Excitation Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method to Reduce Laser Power, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Light weight Telescope Systems Using Novel Nano-layered Synthesized Material, Year 1 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Solid State Hydrogen Storage Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Neuromorphic UAS Collision Avoidance, Year 2 Completed 3 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Multifunctional Hot Structures Heat Shield Completed 7 Thermal Protection Systems Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
LEAPTech Distributed Electric Propulsion Completed 4 All-Electric Propulsion Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Multilevel Control & Optimization of Future Air Traffic Systems via Managem, Year 1 Completed 1 Traffic Management Concepts Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Autonomous Flocking and Cooperative Control of Multi- Vehicle Systems Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Rare earth doped thin film waveguide for mid infrared lasers Completed 1 Lasers Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method, Year 3 Completed 5 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
FLEET for Unseeded Velocity Measurements in All Speed Regimes Completed 2 — Langley Research Center 2026-02-15 —
Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method to Reduce Laser Power, Year 1 Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research 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.