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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 379 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Water Processor Assembly Upgrades (WPA)	Active	6	Other Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems	Johnson Space Center
An Off Planet Laundromat	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Strong Thermoset Regolith UV-Curable Composite Technology (STRUCT)	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Compact Optical Method for Long-range, Inexpensive Network Communication (COMLINC)	Completed	—	—	Johnson Space Center
Windybird: Animal-borne Wind Velocity Measurements at the Planetary Boundary Layer	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
BrainStack: An Orbital Laboratory for AI/ML processors-including the first flight of NASA High Performance Spacecraft Computing (HPSC) Platform	Completed	—	—	Ames Research Center
Eth-RT: Enabling Real-Time Ethernet Communication Between Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Devices	Completed	—	—	Johnson Space Center
Upright Proprioception Retention via Inflight Training and Evaluation (UPRITE)	Active	6	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
Sensorimotor Countermeasures	Completed	5	Prevention and Countermeasures	Johnson Space Center
A real-time seismic detection technology for the Moon and beyond	Completed	4	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
cFS Multithread Parallelization Capability	Completed	5	Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards	Goddard Space Flight Center
Model-Based Safety and Mission Assurance Implementation (MBSMAI) and Testing	Completed	8	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Fabrication and Evaluation for the Rad-Hard Housekeeping Slave Node (RH-HKSN) ASIC for Power System Electronics	Completed	3	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Enable cloud liquid water path (CLWP) measurements with a broad-band digital system on HIWRAP	Completed	5	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Towards Dynamic Configuration for a Cloud Evolution Targeting Radar System (CETR)	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Micro Magnetometers for Science	Completed	5	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Next Generation High-Bandwidth Telemetery and Accompanying Agile Multi-Instrument Smart Interface for Sounding Rocket Experiments	Completed	7	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
S-Band Augmented Forward Service (AFS) Receiver for Lunar Navigation	Completed	4	Revolutionary PNT Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Thin film Fabry–Pérot cavity for enhancing optical interaction with quantum dot based filters	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Bi-Directional High Altitude Aircraft Atmospheric Lidar Instrument Performance Improvement	Completed	6	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Advanced Langmuir Probe for Measurements in high atomic oxygen environments	Completed	5	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
High-Resolution Plasma Analyzer for Ions (HYPERION)	Completed	3	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Tandem Ion Mass Spectrometer (TIMS): High Efficiency Multi-Stop Design (TIMS)	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Assessing Plant Canopy Energy Balance, Evapotranspiration, and Vegetation Stress with 3D Surface Temperatures Derived from New G-LiHT TIR Imagery	Completed	7	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
A-STEP: The AstroPix Sounding rocket Technology dEmonstration Payload	Completed	5	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Testing and Extension of Onboard Maneuver Planning Algorithms	Completed	6	Targeting Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Metamaterial Metaoptic Optical Frame Step-2 Proposal (MMOF)	Completed	5	Large Apertures	Goddard Space Flight Center
Space-Borne Ultra Low Noise Clock – High TRL Engineering module for VBLI telescope and High Precision Clock Enabled Astrophysics	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Using Earth-based Observations to Bootstrap Expected Signatures of Exoplanets	Completed	3	Science Modeling	Goddard Space Flight Center
A unified approach to retrieval of upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere winds for assimilation in GEOS-5	Completed	3	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
LExSO Lidar Laser Development	Completed	6	Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Investigation of Data Augmentation Techniques for Machine Learning Performance on Mass Spectrometry Data	Completed	3	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Long-Wave Infrared Upgrades for the CHARMS Refractometer	Completed	3	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Deci-Hz Interferometric Space Antenna (DISA)	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Volumetric 3D Mapping of Complex Dielectric Permittivity of Mars via Laboratory Multi-orientation Analysis of Mars Meteorites with Direct Implications for Future Mars Exploration, Part II (3D-CDP)	Completed	5	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Model for the Hyperspectral Future	Completed	5	Science Modeling	Goddard Space Flight Center
Implementing a hardware acceleration for the lunar gravity model	Completed	4	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Advancement of High-Resolution Gamma-ray Spectrometer	Completed	5	Other Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Robust Split Electrical Control Design for Microshutter Arrays	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Advancing computed tomography techniques for surface deployment on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and comets	Completed	1	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Standardizing a Data and Power System for GSFC Long-Duration Balloon Flights	Completed	7	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Antenna-Coupled MIR/FIR Detectors for High Sensitivity Applications	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
3D Atmospheric Formaldehyde Profiler	Completed	4	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Determining Radiation Hardness of Novel Visible-Blind Photodetectors for UV Astrophysics Applications	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
UV Contrast Performance and Yield Improvement of the NGMSA for Use on HWO	Completed	4	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Text-to-Spaceship: Revolutionizing Mission Development through AI and Evolved Systems (T2S)	Completed	6	Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development	Goddard Space Flight Center
Evaluating COTS Hardware for Gasless Sounding Rocket Payload Attitude Control	Completed	2	Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools	Wallops Flight Facility
Alignment and integration support for a new high-contrast integral field spectrograph	Completed	4	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
autoNGC CAPSTONE Flight Experiment Completion	Active	5	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Frozen Return Samples to Earth (FROSTE)	Active	2	Cryogenic Systems	Marshall Space Flight 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.

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