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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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 403 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Thin, Flexible Oxidation-Resistant Coatings for 3D-Woven Carbon Fabric TPS Materials Completed — Entry, Descent, and Landing Ames Research Center
Real Time Fuel Tank Health Monitoring for Cryogenic Hydrogen Aviation Fuel Completed — Autonomous Systems Glenn Research Center
PSNDL Component Qualification for Class A Missions Active — Entry, Descent, and Landing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Multi-View X-Ray Diagnostics for Ejecta and Core Behavior in Plume-Surface Interactions Completed — Entry, Descent, and Landing Langley Research Center
Flexible CMC Structures for Propulsion Efficiency Completed — Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Glenn Research Center
Enhanced Panoptic Imaging for Class 1 UAVs Completed — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Rad-hard Electronic Control and Power Integrated Circuit for Stirling-based Radioisotope Power System Completed — Aerospace Power and Energy Storage Glenn Research Center
Integrated Regolith Excavation and Water Extraction Using Auger-Dryer Systems Completed — Exploration Destination Systems Johnson Space Center
Highly Insulating Structures for Thermal Preservation of Sample Return Mission Samples Completed — Robotic Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Innovative Method for Water and CO2 Sequestration and Reclamation in Long Duration PLSS Active 1 Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Sodium Excitation Laser for Mesospheric Analysis Completed — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
An Adjacent Inductive Coil Sensor (AICS) System for Structural Health Monitoring of the Restraint Layer Active 2 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Marshall Space Flight Center
Health monitoring and pre-flight diagnostics for robust electrical machines Completed — Autonomous Systems Ames Research Center
Miniaturized Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for In Situ Lunar and Planetary Analysis Completed — Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In-Canopy Bleed Air Control to Enable a Steerable Subsonic Parachute System Completed — Entry, Descent, and Landing Ames Research Center
A Microgravity-Compatible Liquid-Free Surface Sampling Pen (SSP) (SSP) Completed — Exploration Destination Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Precision Regolith Emplacement, Compaction, and Integrated Smoothing Equipment Active — Exploration Destination Systems Kennedy Space Center
RIDDANCE: Removal of Irregular Debris using Double Assisted Nets with Controlled Enhancement Active 2 Entry, Descent, and Landing Marshall Space Flight Center
Enabling Precise Multi-Layer Optical Coatings on Highly Curved Lenses with Atomic Layer Deposition Completed — Sensors and Instruments Marshall Space Flight Center
Aquila - Chemical-Electric Hybrid Transfer Stage Active — Propulsion Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Solid-State Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) of GRX-810 (CSAM) Active — Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Glenn Research Center
QubitCast: A Quantum-Inspired Environmental Forecasting System Completed — Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Ames Research Center
Rapid Low-Loss Polymer PIC Platforms Using High-Index Nanoimprintable Materials Active — Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Helium Refueling Demonstration for On-Orbit Servicing Applications using Efficient High-Pressure-Ratio Compressor Completed — Propulsion Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
A Long-wavelength IR Sensor for Water Drop Temperature Measurement Completed — Ground, Test, and Surface Systems Glenn Research Center
Multiplexed Integrated Cavity Output Spectrometer Driven by Quantum Cascade Laser Arrays Completed — Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
Full-Scale eVTOL Aircraft Flight Dynamics Testing, Modeling and Simulation Active — Flight Vehicle Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Disaster Autonomous Aerial Response Technology Active 3 Autonomous Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Technology Maturation of the VASIMR Electric Propulsion System Active — Propulsion Systems Glenn Research Center
E-Drive: Electromagnetic Zero-Emission Valve Drive Active 3 Ground, Test, and Surface Systems Kennedy Space Center
GRIND: Genomic Rapid Inspection of Non-abundant bacteria after Decontamination Active — Exploration Destination Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TransAstra Capture Bag for Large Debris Remediation - Demonstration Payload Development Active — Robotic Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar In-Situ Thermal Wadis Completed — Exploration Destination Systems Kennedy Space Center
A low-power, high-dynamic range sensor system for long-term autonomy, navigation, and mapping on the lunar surface Active 3 Robotic Systems Johnson Space Center
Quantum Waveguide Infrared Photodetector for Heterodyne Spectroscopy Completed — Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lightweight Instrument Manipulator Boom (LIMB) (LIMB) Completed — Robotic Systems Ames Research Center
Soil Cohesion Effects on Cratering and Transport of Regolith due to Plume-Surface Interaction Completed — Entry, Descent, and Landing Marshall Space Flight Center
Compact Optical Cavities for Quantum Photonics and Integrated Timing Solutions (COCQPITS) Active 3 Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Next-Gen Precipitation Intensity System for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) (AAM) Completed — Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
Swift Ultra Long Endurance (SULE) High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) Capability Demonstration Active 6 Robotic Systems Ames Research Center
Microweather Data Integration, Classification, and Communication Using a Vertiport Automation System (VAS) for Safe and Efficient Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Operations (VAS) Completed — Sensors and Instruments Langley Research Center
AI-Enhanced Digital Twin Framework for UAS Component Reliability in Support of In-Time Aviation Safety Management Systems (IASMS) (IASMS) Completed — Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems Langley Research Center
Rare Earth Amplifier Chips (REACh) (REACh) Active — Sensors and Instruments Glenn Research Center
Visual Intelligence for Situation Awareness Completed — Robotic Systems Johnson Space Center
Extra Large Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT-XL) Active 2 Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing Langley Research Center
Deorbit Object with Navigation (DOWN) (DOWN) Completed — Entry, Descent, and Landing Ames Research Center
Clavius-S: Lunar Surface Sensor Payload for Orbital Object Detection Completed — Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Scalable Nanofabrication Technology for Free-form Reflective Diffraction Gratings Completed — Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Impact-resistant Composite Structures for Spacesuits Completed — Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications Completed — Sensors and Instruments Langley 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.