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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 →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 4 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Closed Loop Waste Processing Dryer (DRYER), Phase I Completed — Team Preparedness and Training Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Commercial Framework for Bi-Level Integrated System Synthesis, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Autonomous Mars Airplane Navigation (AMAN), Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Interfacing Design Code and Simulation Code for Biological Shielding, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (AMET), Phase I Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Water Use and Requirements of PtFT1 Plums for Long Duration Space Missions Completed 3 Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High energy density Li-ion polymer batteries with nanocomposite cathodes, Phase II Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Highly Effective Thermoelectric Coolers, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
USE OF MULTIPLE A I METHODOLOGIES TO PRODUCE A FOUNDATION FOR AN INTELLIGENT MEDICAL SYSTEM, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Gamma Detector Modular Assemblies for EXIST, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Vibrating Wingstroke Mechanism, Phase I Completed — Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Thermal Spray of UV/Visible Light-Curable Polymide Powders, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
In-Situ Training of Anthropomorphic Robots, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Magnesium Composites With Corrosion and Wear Resistant Coatings, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Long Life, High Energy Silver/Zinc Batteries, Phase I Completed — Decompression Sickness Mitigation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Zero-Energy Ultrafast Water Nanofiltration System in Microgravity Completed 2 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
UltraWIS, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Single Frequency Lasers for Space-Based Wind and Aerosol Lidar, Phase I Completed — Lasers Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Control Instrumentation for Advanced Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerators, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Radiation tolerant non volatile memory with Hard by Design Techniques, Phase II Completed — High-Performance Memories Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
A Unified Multi-Dimensional Gaskinetic Hybrid BGK-DSMC Method for Nonequilibrium and Chemically Reacting Flows, Phase I Completed — Aerothermodynamics Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Boundary and Alignment Actuation for Improvement of Large Membrane Optical Figure, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Atmospheric Correction of Remote Imagery Using Ground-based Radiometers, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Core Flight Executive Software Radiation Mitigation Study Completed 3 Testing and Evaluation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
STO-2: Support for 4th Year Operations, Recovery, and Science ASU Co-I Completed 7 Lasers — 2018-10-10 —
A Tool for the Evaluation of Proposed TFM Initiatives, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Multi-Channel Video Compression for CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Preliminary Calibration of PARC Hyperspectral Imager for NASA Planetary Lander Missions Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Extreme Precision Photometry and Radial Velocimetry from the Ground for TESS and Beyond Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2018-10-10 —
SEE enhancement of advanced commercial microprocessors for Space Applications, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
E-Field Micro-Injector Array Liquid Fuel Atomizer, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Novel Lightweight, Low-Cost, Aerogel Materials as Insulation for Cryogenic Tanks, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Task-Method-Knowledge Toolkit for Spacecraft Launch & Payload Processing System, Phase I Completed — Sustainable Manufacturing Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Model Process Control Language (MPC) Completed 9 Distributed Simulation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Detecting Fossilized Microscopic Life Forms on Mars with Dual-Energy CT, Phase II Completed — Decompression Sickness Mitigation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Higher-order RANS turbulence models for separated flows (RANS) Completed 1 Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
KSC Foundational Methodology for Additive Manufacturing - NDE of AM Titanium Alloys Completed — Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Solution based 3-D Mesh adaptation for Heat and Mass predictions, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Future Airportal Surveillance and Prediction, Phase I Completed — Range Tracking, Surveillance, and Flight Safety Technologies Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Flight-Weight Manifolding for Actively-Cooled SiC/SiC Composite Thrust Chamber, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Ammonia to Nitrogen and Water, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
AUTOMATED LEARNING FOR REAL-TIME EXPERT SYSTEM IN MONTORING AND CONTROL, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High Performance Drive Electronics for MEMS Pirani Vacuum Gauges Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
In Situ Lidar for Cloud and Aerosol Radiation Sciences, Phase II Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Cryogenic Etalon Actuator, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Tunable Laser Development for In-flight OFDR Structural Health Monitoring Systems Completed 3 Environment Sensors Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Interactivity Visualization Software for Large Computational Data Sets, Phase II Completed — Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
EVA Suit Microbial Leakage Investigation Completed 5 Portable Life Support System Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
NDE of Ablative Heat Shield Materials and Structures for NASA Missions Completed — Thermal Protection Materials Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Exposing Microorganisms in the Stratosphere for Planetary Protection (E-MIST) Completed 9 Planetary Protection Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
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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.
  • Contribution potential is our estimate, not NASA data: an Active project at a low TRL has more room for outside research involvement than a flight-proven one. High = Active + TRL 1-3, Medium = Active + TRL 4-6, Low = Active + TRL 7-9. "Active" does not mean NASA is seeking external contributors or that funding exists — treat this purely as a shortlisting aid.
  • Last updated is TechPort's own lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".
💻 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.