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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 37 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Omni-Directional Imaging Spectrometer (ODIS)	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Current Amplifiers	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Next-Generation Metasurface Polarimeter for Earth Science	Completed	3	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Integrating Exploration Portable Electrostatic Detector with Desert Research and Technology Studies (DRATS) (xPED)	Completed	4	Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation	Goddard Space Flight Center
ComPair Thermal Modeling	Completed	6	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Dedicated Balloon-borne platform for Planetary Observations	Completed	—	Surface Mobility	Goddard Space Flight Center
Effects of particle contamination during laser-based sample processing	Completed	3	Planetary Protection	Goddard Space Flight Center
Optimization of Onboard Processing Using the Maestro Multicore Processor for Decadal Missions	Completed	—	High-Performance Processors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Miniaturized Magnetometers	Completed	6	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Aircraft Albedo Pod (ALPO)	Completed	4	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Wallops Flight Facility
Compact, monolithic reference gas cell	Completed	3	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
A High-Fidelity Low-Thrust Spiral Optimization Capability Applied to Cislunar and Multi-Body Trajectory Design	Completed	2	Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design	Goddard Space Flight Center
Plasma Produced Gaseous Species for Food, Seed, and Equipment Sanitization	Completed	3	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
Distributed System for Spaceflight Biomedical Support	Completed	6	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Flexible Ultrasound System	Completed	6	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Organs on a Chip Platform for Assessing Cosmic Radiation Damage	Completed	1	Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Assessment of Otolith Function and Asymmetry as a Corollary to Critical Sensorimotor Performance in Missions of Various Durations	Active	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Cyber Partners: Harnessing Group Dynamics to Boost Motivation for More Efficient Exercise	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
S-PRINT: Development and Validation of a Tool to Predict, Evaluate, and Mitigate Excessive Workload Effects	Completed	6	Human-System Performance Modeling	Ames Research Center
Candidate Nutritional Countermeasure to Mitigate Adverse Effects of Spaceflight	Completed	4	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
Evaluation of the Validity, Acceptability and Usability of Bio-mathematical Models to Predict Fatigue in an Operational Environment	Completed	6	Human-System Performance Modeling	Johnson Space Center
Medical Consumables Tracking-GRC	Completed	6	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Vehicle Net Habitable Volume (NHV) and Habitability Assessment (iSHORT)	Completed	7	Habitability and Environment	Johnson Space Center
Quantifying and Developing Countermeasures for the Effect of Fatigue-Related Stressors on Automation Use and Trust During Robotic Supervisory Control	Completed	6	Human Factors Engineering	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Computational Model for Spacecraft/Habitat Volume (Spacecraft Optimization Layout and Volume (SOLV)) (PI=Chen)	Completed	6	Human-System Performance Modeling	Johnson Space Center
Protocols for Asynchronous Communication in Space Operations: Communication Analysis	Completed	6	Integrated Flight Operations Systems	Johnson Space Center
Cell-free Production of Pharmaceutical-grade Biologics	Completed	2	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Boosting Brain Metabolism in Spaceflight with Transcranial Photobiomodulation	Completed	3	Prevention and Countermeasures	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Eye Vein Pressure Device	Completed	3	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	Johnson Space Center
Flexible Ultrasound System for Quantitative Diagnosis and Therapeutic Ultrasound	Completed	6	Long-Duration Health	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
A Non-intrusive Ocular Monitoring Framework to Model Ocular Structure and Functional Changes due to Long-term Spaceflight	Completed	3	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Non-Invasive Monitoring of Intracranial Pressure with Volumetric Ophthalmic Ultrasound: Integration with NASA's Flexible Ultrasound System (FUS)	Completed	5	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Self-Generated LBNP for Deep-Space Missions	Completed	4	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
ATD (Anthropomorphic Test Dummy) Injury Metric Development	Completed	6	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
Integrative Personalized Omics Profiling Next Steps: Detection and Classification of Deviations from Wellness	Completed	2	Behavioral Health and Performance	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Quantifying and Preventing EVA Injury in Exploration Environments	Canceled	5	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
Self-Guided Multimedia Stress Management and Resilience Training	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Development of an Objective Behavioral Assay of Cohesion to Enhance Composition, Task Performance, and Psychosocial Adaptation in Long-Term Work Groups	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Automated Vascular Access for Spaceflight (PI: Bridgeman)	Completed	3	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Johnson Space Center
Autonomous Behavioral Health Countermeasures for Spaceflight	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
A Comprehensive Fatigue Management Program and an Evaluation of a Photic Countermeasure for Mission Controllers	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Multi-Use Near-Infrared Spectroscopy System for Spaceflight Health Applications	Completed	6	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Non-Contact Sleep, Vitals, and Behavior Sensing	Completed	3	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Cognitive Aid Design Using Augmented Reality to Support Attention	Completed	3	Training	Johnson Space Center
VisualDx Clinical Decision Support for Ultrasound	Completed	4	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Stable Calcium Isotopes in Urine as a Biomarker of Bone Mineral Balance in Spaceflight	Completed	6	Long-Duration Health	Johnson Space Center
Monitoring and Regulating Teamwork	Completed	6	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Objective Function Allocation Method for Human-Automation/Robotic Interaction using Work Models that Compute	Completed	5	Human-System Performance Modeling	Johnson Space Center
Lighting Protocols for Exploration: HERA Campaign	Completed	5	Behavioral Health and Performance	Johnson Space Center
Project Atlas	Completed	3	Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring	Translational Research Institute for Space Health

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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.