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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.

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13,814 projects harvested so far — page 4 of 277.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
A Gravitational Wave Detector Based on an Atom Interferometer Completed 5 Design and Certification Methods Goddard Space Flight Center
Novel Solid Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolyte to Enable Lithium Metal Safely Cycling for Next Generation High Energy Battery Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Sparse Wavefront Control: A New approach to exoplanet high-contrast imaging Completed 3 Mirror Systems Ames Research Center
NexTrack: sun tracking through cloud edges for next-generation sunphotometry using a multi-spectral machine vision system Completed — Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Ames Research Center
Exploratory Planning for Search and Detection of Subsurface Voids Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Completed 3 Object, Event, and Activity Recognition Carnegie Mellon University
Plasma-Assisted Life and Ecological Operating System (PALEOS) Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Glenn Research Center
Human Persistence on the Lunar Surface Enabled by Artificial Photosynthesis Completed — Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power Glenn Research Center
Experimentation and Modeling of Hypervelocity Impacts of Spacecraft MMOD Shielding with Incorporated Shear Thickening Fluid Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Mississippi State University
Probabilistic approaches for robust thermal process prediction in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing Completed 3 Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
End-to-End Mission Design & Trajectory Optimization Completed 7 Trajectory Design and Analysis Johnson Space Center
Dust Abrasion Damage on Martian Solar Arrays Completed 4 — Glenn Research Center
Guidance of Swarms Deployed from Back Shell of the Mars Spacecraft for Distributed Science Completed 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Shapeshifters from Science Fiction to Science Fact: Globetrotting from Titan's Rugged Cliffs to its Deep Seafloors Completed 2 Surface Mobility Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Investigation of Particle Effects on a Hypersonic Mars Entry Completed 3 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Wearable Microneedle Array for the Continuous, Electrochemical Monitoring of Biomarkers Completed 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Ames Research Center
Seismic Exploration of Small Bodies Completed 3 Above-Surface Mobility Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory
Data-Driven Discovery of Predictive Aeroheating Models for EDL Missions Completed 2 Aeroassist and Atmospheric Entry Langley Research Center
Additive Manufacturing of Lightweight Multifunctional Structures Completed 2 Lightweight Structural Materials Glenn Research Center
Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Modeling and Simulation of Plasma-Surface-Dust Interactions for Lunar Exploration Completed 2 Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation Missouri University of Science and Technology
Orbiting Artificial Star for High Resolution Coronal Imaging from the ground Completed 4 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Nanohmics, Inc.
Motion Planning in Unknown Environments Completed 3 Robot Navigation and Path Planning Stanford University
Developing Validating Virtual Sensorimotor Analog and Countermeasure, Year 2 Completed — Long-Duration Health Johnson Space Center
Construction of Predictive Uncertainty Quantification Framework to the Extrapolation of TPS Arc-Jet Experiment Data to Flight Conditions Completed 3 Thermal Protection Analysis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In Situ Yogurt Production for Probiotic and Nutrition Delivery Completed 3 — Ames Research Center
Quantum-Limited Amplifiers for Detector Arrays on NASA's Inflation Probe Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Stanford University
Shear Thickening Fluids (STF) – Enhanced Textiles for Impact Energy Dissipation, Year 2 Completed — Flexible Material Systems Glenn Research Center
Modeling of Complex Material Systems in Extreme Environments for Space Technology Completed 3 Computational Materials Stanford University
X-Ray Diffractive Optics Completed 4 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar ENA Imaging Coronagraph, Year 1 Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Pulsed Fission-Fusion Propulsion Concept (PuFF) Completed 3 Warm Gas Marshall Space Flight Center
Temperature Fiber Optic Sensing System (TEMP) Completed 6 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Armstrong Flight Research Center
Optimizing a Two-Step Laser Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for In Situ Astrobiology Investigations Completed 3 Environment Sensors New Mexico State University-Main Campus
Scalable Autonomously Configured Integrated DAQ/Control System, Year 3 Completed 5 Commodity Recovery Stennis Space Center
Radiator for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft, Year 2 Completed 5 Heat Rejection and Storage Marshall Space Flight Center
Microstructure and defect informed predictions of damage tolerance and durability of materials and structures, including verification and uncertainty quantification Completed 4 Computational Materials Purdue University-Main Campus
Scalable Solution Processing of Pristine Carbon Nanotubes for Self-Assembled, Tunable Materials with Direct Application to Space Technologies Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Rice University
Breathing Beyond Earth: A Reliable Oxygen Generation Architecture for Human Space Exploration Active — Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Georgia Tech Research Corporation
On-orbit Autonomous Assembly from Nanosatellites (OAAN) Completed 5 Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Langley Research Center
Multifunctional Material Supporting Human Exploration of Space Completed 3 Radiation Mitigation and Biological Countermeasures Glenn Research Center
Wire-based Additive Manufacturing via Resistance Projection 3D Joining (WARP-3D) Completed 4 Manufacturing Processes Glenn Research Center
LOX / LCH4: A Unifying Technology for Future Exploration, Year 1 Completed 6 — Johnson Space Center
Modeling the Operational Limits of Extreme Environment Electronics for Lunar/Martian Fission Surface Power (FSP) Completed 3 Power Management and Distribution Glenn Research Center
Integrated Focal Plane Wavefront Estimating for Space Mission Coronagraphs Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Ames Research Center
Fast and Accurate Detection of Cosmic Ray Contamination in JWST Data Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Control and Modeling of Extensible Continuum Robots Completed 3 Multimodal and Proximate Interaction Clemson University
Porous Silicon for Enhanced Detectors Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Photon Counting Sensor for In-space Debris Detection Completed 3 Detector Development —
The Fabrication of Ultra-Lightweight Full-Shell X-ray Optics by 3D-Printing, Year 2 Completed 2 Manufacturing Processes Marshall Space Flight Center
Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) Completed 3 Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.