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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 →

21,053 projects harvested so far — page 365 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Umpqua SCOR Completed
Advanced TPS Materials Completed
Advanced TPS Materials Completed
Autonomy In-Situ Resource Utilization Operations Completed
Advanced TPS Materials Completed
TEST-UAT WF TESTING - PROJECT INITIATION Completed
MSFC CFM NTP Task Completed
Autonomous & Robotic Systems (Includes Autonomous Medical Operations) Completed
Material Handling - Depart of Energy Collaboration Completed
Advanced TPS Materials Completed
Evaluation of FinFET Technology for Extreme Environments Completed
Advanced TPS Materials Completed
Honeywell SCOR Completed
Engine Ground Test Development Completed
Completing test and characterization of corrosion in silver-plated copper wires used in Crit 1/1R cables in rockets Active 3 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Auburn University
Metal-Organic Framework Adsorbents for Acetylene Removal and Hydrogen Purification Active 3 Atmosphere Revitalization Marshall Space Flight Center
Portable In-Field Acoustic Sensor Array Completed Environment Sensors
Fast Neutron Spectrometer Reflight (FNS) Completed 8 Radiation Johnson Space Center
Uniting Physics and Machine Learning for Enhanced Heliophysics Insights Completed 2 Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Space Flight Center
Filtration Bubble Point Test Stand Procurement Completed 9 Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Passive Avionics Thermal Switch (PATHS) Completed 3 Thermal Management Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Instrumented, Reconfigurable Vacuum Chamber for Ground, Parabolic, and Suborbital Flight Testing Completed 4 In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair Marshall Space Flight Center
Computational Modeling of Lithium Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster for Nuclear Electric Propulsion Active Electromagnetic Propulsion Stanford University
Non-Contact, Real-Time Diagnostics of Battery Aging in 18650 Cells During the Lunar Night Using Acoustic Spectroscopy Active Electrochemical Storage: Batteries University of California-Santa Barbara
AI Powered Goddard Proposal Assistant (GPA) for Missions (GPA) Completed 3 Digital Assistant Goddard Space Flight Center
Flight-Like Advanced Materials Reactor (FLAMR) Active 4 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Regolith Beneficiation System for Production of Lunar Calcium and Aluminum Completed 3 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Missouri University of Science and Technology
Physics-based Formulation of Tailored Ionic Liquids for Spacecraft Thermal Control Active 2 Heat Transport University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Integrating Data-Driven and Physics-Based Models for Plume-Surface Interaction Predictions Active 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Improving Interfacial Properties through Scalable Additive Manufacturing of Functionally Graded Propulsion Systems Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes Johns Hopkins University
Hierarchically Tailorable Composites with extreme Thermo-mechanical Properties for Dimensionally Stable Space Structures Active 2 Lightweight Structural Materials University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sapphire composite lattices with ultrafast laser-tunable thermal expansion Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials University of Arizona
Self-Organized Nanostructured Bonds through Transient Liquid Phase Dealloying Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes Northwestern University
Scalable Hybrid Manufacturing of Bimetallic Components for Space Applications Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
Advancing Elastocaloric Refrigeration through Co-design of Materials and Systems Active 2 Other Thermal Management Systems Texas A & M University-College Station
Conventional and Flash Sintering of Tungsten and Tungsten Alloys Prepared by Robocasting of ALD-doped Precursors Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes University of Colorado Boulder
Continuous Bending-mode Elastocaloric Composite Refrigeration System for Compact, Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cooling Active 2 Other Thermal Management Systems University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spatially-resolved Vibrational and Rotational Energy Distributions Using Ultrafast CARS for Multi-species Hypersonic Flow Characterization Completed 2 Atmosphere Characterization University of Virginia-Main Campus
PLASMa: Precision ionic Liquids for Advanced Spacecraft thermal Management (PLASMa) Active 2 Heat Transport Cornell University
CABLESSail: Cable-Actuated Bio-inspired Lightweight Elastic Solar Sail Completed 2 Solar Sails University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
A Reduced Order Modeling Approach to the Dynamic Stability Analysis of Blunt-Body Entry Vehicles Completed 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Physics-based Modeling and Tool Development for the Characterization and Uncertainty Quantification of Crater Formation and Ejecta Dynamics due to Plume-surface Interaction Active 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Auburn University
Deformable Crumpled Nano-ball Coatings with Adaptable Adhesion and Mechanical Energy Absorption for Lunar Dust Mitigation Active Materials for Extreme Environments University of California-Irvine
Moonbeam-Beamed Lunar Power Completed 3 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage University of California-Santa Barbara
Molten Aluminum Generation for Manufacturing Additvely (MAGMA) Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Colorado School of Mines
Resolving the fundamentals of parachute fluid and structural mechanics Completed 4 Aerodynamic Decelerators University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
High-Temperature Lightweight Radiator Panels with 3D-Printed Titanium Loop Heat Pipes Completed 2 Heat Rejection and Storage University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
Efficient Alloy and Process Design for Additive Manufacturable Refractory Alloys Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Texas A & M University-College Station
The Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) Space Technology Research Institute for Deep Space Habitat Design (HOME) Completed 2 Habitability and Environment University of California-Davis
Machine-learning building-block-flow model for large-eddy simulation of high-speed flows with strong heat transfer and wall roughness Active 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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.