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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 373 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Digital Twins for Controlled Environment Plant Production in Space Completed 2 Transformative Health and Performance Concepts University of Florida
BREEZE: Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration (BREEZE) Completed 3 Integrated Flight Operations Systems SUNY Buffalo State
Miniaturized Radiation Hardened Beam-Steerable GPS Receiver Front End Completed 4 Attitude Estimation Sensors Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc.,
Cableway for Lunar Surface Operations (CLSO) Completed 1 Surface Construction and Assembly Langley Research Center
Electrochemical in-situ resource utilization of urine-derived nitrogen for sustainable space travel and habitation Completed 2 Water Recovery and Management Stanford University
Wideband, Low-power Multi-mode MMIC Radar Transceivers with Phase Control and Integrated Baseband Signal Processing Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Linear Signal, LLC
Robust Autonomous Aerial Capture Completed 3 GN&C Armstrong Flight Research Center
Compact Spaceborne Magnetic Observatory (COSMO) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors University of Colorado Boulder
REALMS - Ruggedized Extreme Environment Advanced LiDAR Mapping System Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Marshall Space Flight Center
Lightweight Fiber-based RF Antenna Completed — Innovative Antennas —
Architectural Design Framework for Providing Passive Behavioral Health Countermeasures Active 2 Behavioral Health and Performance Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leveraging π-Backbonding Interactions in Tunable Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Selectivity of CO in a Series-Bosch Reactor Completed 2 Atmosphere Revitalization University of California-Berkeley
In-Space Friction Stir Welding Machine Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Longhurst Engineering, PLC
Low noise millimeter wave amplifiers for space science and technology: a study of hot electron noise Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves California Institute of Technology
Nonlinear AeroServoElastic Reduced Order Model for Active Structural Control Completed 4 Aeroelasticity CFD Research Corporation
Qualification of Photon Sieves for a Solar High Angular Resolution Photometric Imager Completed 3 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
Photonic Quantum Computing for Autonomous Navigation and Planning Completed 2 Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling Ames Research Center
Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cryogenic Liquid Acquisition Device Completed 6 Cryogenic Propulsion Creare, LLC
High-Density Energy Storage Technology Completed 4 Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Giner, Inc.
Pose Bowl: Spacecraft Pose Detection and Estimation Completed 9 Guidance and Targeting Algorithms Johnson Space Center
Risk-Bounded; Goal Driven AI for Human Planetary Exploration Completed 3 Path Planning Johnson Space Center
Enabling in-situ resource utilization in space through gas fermentation: testing novel gas delivery methods in a microgravity environment Completed 6 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Mango Materials Inc.
Scandate Cathode for High Power Long Life Electric Propulsion Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion E-beam, Inc.
An ADS-B derived ATC linked ER System for NextGen Safety Completed 7 Environment Sensors Munro and Associates
Break the Ice - Phase 1 Completed 4 Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Marshall Space Flight Center
Affordable Vehicle Avionics (AVA) Flight Testing Completed 6 Ground and Flight Test Technologies Ames Research Center
Coordinated Multi-Robot-Chain for Terrain Estimation and Exploration Completed 2 Collaborative Mobility Arizona State University-Tempe
Advanced Microgravity Compatible, Integrated Laundry System Completed 6 Waste Management UMPQUA Research Company
Electrical Impedance Imaging: Enabling Deep Space Missions Through Medical Imaging and Diagnosis of the Long-term Physiological Effects of Space Travel Completed 3 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Dartmouth College
Integrated acoustic technology for boil-off control, mass gauging, and structural health monitoring in cryogenic fuel tanks Completed 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Stanford University Mechanical Engineering
Metamaterial particles for orbital environment remediation Active 2 Orbital Debris Mitigation Auburn University
Advancing Microwave Kinetic Inductance Technology for Cosmology and Astrophysics Applications Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Cornell University
CubeSounder: Flying a Novel 3D Weather Imaging Sensor on a High-Altitude Balloon Completed 6 High-Fidelity Simulation and Visualization The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
Toward compact, high-performance cryogenic heat recuperators by exploring a new and unexploited flow phenomenon in wavy channels Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies New Mexico State University-Main Campus
Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) Test Flight Completed 6 Revolutionary PNT Technologies Rhea Space Activity LLC
Substrucured, Meshless and Parametric Modeling of Vibroacoustic Systems Completed 3 Vibroacoustics Comet Technology Corporation
Synthetic Diamond Quantum Sensor Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Armstrong Flight Research Center
CC20 NASA Spacesuit Detection Challenge Completed 3 Informatics and Decision Support Systems Johnson Space Center
Canfield Joint - Vibration Isolation System for High Precision Pointing Completed 5 Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage Balcones Technologies, LLC
Development of a New Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph for Space-Based Applications Active 2 Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Santa Barbara
Design and Analysis of Deep Subwavelength Featured Integrated Photonics for Aerospace Applications in Harsh Environments Active 2 Revolutionary Communications Technologies Vanderbilt University
Lightweight Superconducting Magnets for Low Temperature Magnetic Coolers Completed 3 Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Creare, LLC
Interpretable machine learning for high-speed, high-fidelity GEOS-Chem model simulations with uncertainty quantification Completed 2 Science Modeling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CC20 Common Restraint and Mobility Aid System for Multiple Gravity Environments Completed 3 Human Factors Engineering Johnson Space Center
Closed-Form Collision Avoidance Maneuvers with Passive Safety Considerations Completed 2 Onboard Navigation Algorithms Stanford University
DIPSARS: Discovery of Interesting Patterns and Semantic Analysis in Remote Space Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Charles River Analytics, Inc.
CFD-Assisted and Micromanufacturing-Based Bottom-Up Design and Development of Smart Regenerators for Large Cryocoolers Completed 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
CC20 Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center
Multiscale Emulation and Deep Learning-based Assimilation for Probabilistic Prediction of Hydrologic Phenomena Completed 2 Science Modeling University of California-Irvine
A Flexible, Personalized, On-Demand Astropharmacy Completed — Prevention and Countermeasures Ames Research 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.