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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 381 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
A Miniature INMS for VLEO satellites Active Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
Cloud-based XR for Rapid EXperience (CYREX) Active Goddard Space Flight Center
Readout Development for the HEPSTER Instrument to fill a Critical SWx Measurement Gap Active Electronics Goddard Space Flight Center
autoNGC CAPSTONE Flight Experiment Completion Active Other Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
In-Situ Ice Plume and Dust Detector Validation for Moon to Mars Active Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
Dual-Wavelength Small All-range Lidar for Navigation and Water Ice Detection Active Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
(GCA-4 with Noblis): Knowledge Mesh for Open Discovery and Access of Geospatial and Natural Language Data Active Goddard Space Flight Center
(GCA-5 with Noblis): Earned Trust Framework for Ad Hoc Multi-Agent Autonomous Machine Team Orchestration Active Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars Scoreboards for Space Weather Nowcasts and Forecasts Active Science Modeling Goddard Space Flight Center
Plasma Emission Spectroscopy for Planetary Geochemistry, Enabled by Robotic Arm-Mounted Laser Ablation Sampling Active Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Goddard Space Flight Center
WATCH: Wearable Astronaut Tribocharge Hazard monitor Active Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
Advanced Electric Field/Langmuir Probe System for Measuring DC/AC Electric Fields, Dust and Debris Impacts, Lightning Sferics and Transmitters, and Sheaths and Spacecraft Potential in Very Low Earth Orbit environments (VLEO) Active Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
R5 Program Flight Demo of COMLINC (R5) Active Optical Communications Johnson Space Center
Radiation Biomarker Detection in Breath Active Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
Enabling a high-contrast imaging testbed for Habitable Worlds Observatory Active Optical Components Ames Research Center
FY26 ARIA: Multi-Analyte Prediction of Bone Fracture Active Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
TABS: Transfer-line Acoustic Bubble Sensing Active In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Ames Research Center
FY26 IRAD : Detection and Characterization of Single Mag-EC ELISAConstructs for Ultra-Low LOD Life Detection (ARIA) Active Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
Enabling Automated Production of Near-Net Shape Felted TPS up to 2m Scale Active Entry, Descent, and Landing Ames Research Center
CoOptiSense – Cooperative Optimized Sensor Fusion for Next-Gen Rover Navigation Active Robot Navigation and Path Planning Ames Research Center
LuxBio: Light-based biological sensing and control for automated deep-space experimentation Active Prevention and Countermeasures Ames Research Center
Efficient Learning for Control of Autonomous Mobility in Navigating Obstacles (EL-CAMINO (EL-CAMINO) Active Robot Navigation and Path Planning Ames Research Center
Feasibility of Earth-Based Testing for Mars Rotorcraft Dynamics Active Flight Performance and Analysis Ames Research Center
AIR (Ames Infrared) Imager Maturation Active Optical Components Ames Research Center
IMPedance Analysis & Certification Technnology (IMPACT) Active Entry, Descent, and Landing Ames Research Center
High Lift Rotor Blades for Mars Helicopters (High Solidity) Active Above-Surface Mobility Ames Research Center
Improved Efficiency Quantum-Enhanced Very Long Baseline Interferometry Telescopes Active Quantum Computer Ames Research Center
(GCA-1 with L3Harris): Lunar and Martian Regolith Testing of Antenna Systems and Associated Mechanisms Active Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of a COMPact Space weather Sensor payload (COMPASS) Active In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Volatile Release from Mars/Lunar Regolith by Mechanical Agitation Active Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Kennedy Space Center
Real-Time Signal Integrity Monitoring Active Intelligent Data Understanding Stennis Space Center
Joint Observations Integrated Network : Modular software components to support the DOME's multi-mission data processing needs (JOIN) Active Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development Goddard Space Flight Center
Crew Health And Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 Active 6 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Pharmacy (Pharm) Completed 5 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Johnson Space Center
Mars Portable Life Support System Testbed (PLSS Testbed) Active 3 Portable Life Support System Johnson Space Center
4D Adaptive Sensing: Optimizing Sensor Deployment for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Under Resource Constraints Active 2 Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Achieving Unprecedented Precision in Origami-based Deployable Space Systems Active 2 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Brigham Young University-Provo
Adaptive Radiative Thermal Management with Solid-State Phase-Change Metamaterials Active 2 Heat Rejection and Storage University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Adaptive World Models for Space Robotics: Implicit Representations Grounded in Semantics and Physics Active 2 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Stanford University
Additive Manufacturing at the Nanoscale for Microfluidic Space Applications Active 2 Electrostatic Propulsion Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advancing Further the State of the Art of Fluid-Structure Interaction for Supersonic Parachute Inflation Dynamics Active 2 Aerodynamic Decelerators Stanford University
Algorithmic Venous Gas Emboli Detection and Diagnostics for Wearable Ultrasound Active 2 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis University of Colorado Boulder
Autonomous Fault Detection, Recovery, and Avoidance during Robotic In-Space Assembly Active 2 Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis University of Southern California
Spacesuit Fit & Injury Technologies (SFIT) Completed 3 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Combining Optimal and Learning-Based Control Methods for the Manipulation of Spaceborne Objects Active 2 Surface Mobility Stanford University
Crew Health and Performance EVA Simulation Development (EVA Sim Dev) Completed 4 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Debris to Infrastructure: Salvage Characterization and Recovered Metals Processing in Lunar Gravity Active 2 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Detection of Extraterrestrial Life using Microfluidic Hyperpolarized Enhanced NV-NMR Active 2 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Maryland-College Park
Development and validation of a ground-based spacecraft docking simulator with vestibular perturbations Active 2 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Texas A & M University-College Station
Development of a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster without Pole Erosion Active 2 Electrostatic Propulsion University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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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.