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 →
21,176 projects harvested so far — page 424 of 424.
| Title |
Status |
TRL |
Technology area |
Lead organization |
Last updated |
Potential ⓘ |
| Measurement of Secondary Electron Yield (SEY) from Insulators Using Single-Electron Detection Techniques |
Completed
|
2 |
Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing |
Marshall Space Flight Center |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Autonomous Navigation, Dynamic Path and Work Flow Planning in Multi-Agent Robotic Swarms |
Completed
|
3 |
— |
Kennedy Space Center |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| OBLIVION: Observing Black hole LIght Via Intensity cOrrelatioN |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| PS2I: Transforming Submillimeter Space Interferometry with Photonic Technologies |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Power-over-Fiber to Enable a Lunar Underground eXplorer (LUX) |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Plasmon-Enhanced Radioisotope Thermophotovoltaic (PRTPV) Power Generation for Interstellar Missions |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Coilable Stacked Solar Sails for Very High delta-V Missions |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Robotically Assembled Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Long-Range Space Situational Awareness |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Autonomous Tritium Micropowered Sensors |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| TFINER -- Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) |
Completed
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| FLOAT: Flexible Levitation on a Track |
Completed
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Pulsed Plasma Rocket: Shielded, Fast Transits for Humans to Mars is an innovative propulsion system |
Completed
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Radioisotope Thermoradiative Cell Power Generator |
Completed
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| ScienceCraft for Outer Planet Exploration (SCOPE) |
Completed
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Combinatory Architecture offering Neomobility, on-Venus Adaptability, and Survivability (CANVAS) |
Active
|
— |
Other Thermal Management Systems |
California Institute of Technology |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| CubeSat Space Flight test of a Neutrino Detector |
Completed
|
3 |
Sensors and Instruments |
Wichita State University |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Mapping Alien Continents: Achieving Optical VLBI for Exoplanet Imaging |
Active
|
— |
Sensors and Instruments |
Brookhaven Science Associates, Inc. |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Photophoretic tracers for near-space remote sensing at 30-100 km altitudes |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| PRAXIS: Planetary Rings Autonomous EXploration with In-situ Sampling |
Active
|
— |
Exploration Destination Systems |
California Institute of Technology |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| ECLIPSE - Efficient variable Conductivity Lunar Insulator for Passive Surveyor Environmental control |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Solid-state Propulsion for Autonomous Reconnaissance of Karst (SPARK) |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn's Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere. |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys |
Active
|
— |
— |
— |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Quantum Wind Lidar Applications for Planetary and Earth Science Missions |
Active
|
— |
Sensors and Instruments |
Ames Research Center |
2026-09-09 |
—
|
| Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) |
Completed
|
7 |
Lasers |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
2026-09-10 |
—
|
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.
