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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 45 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Maine NASA EPSCoR RID Funding Extension (Year 4)	Completed	—	Cryogenic Propulsion	Maine Space Grant Consortium
Multi-scale remote sensing approaches for forest health assessment	Completed	—	Lasers	Maine Space Grant Consortium
Arkansas NASA EPSCoR RID 2019	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Evaluation of Candidate Crop Plants in Biologically Enhanced Martian Regolith	Completed	—	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	University of North Dakota
Developing a Capability at the University of Hawaii for Multiple UAV Observations of Active Volcanism	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Hawaii
NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and Research Applications Space Biology Research Request 2 -- Experiments and Simulations of Microbial Growth in Rotating Bioreactor	Completed	—	Collaborative Science and Engineering	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Mississippi NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Program (RID)	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Mississippi
High-Fidelity Loci-CHEM Simulations for Acoustic Wave Propagation and Vibration	Completed	—	Aeroacoustics	University of Mississippi
Appendix F: Assessing Citizen Science Labeling to Improve Training Data Quality for Land Cover Protocols within the GLOBE Observer Community	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	University of Vermont
Appendix G: Rapid Laser Reactive Sintering of High-Performance Electrolytes for Additive Manufacturing of Solid State Batteries	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	College of Charleston
Wearable Sensors for Low-Power On-Demand Health Monitoring (Appendix B: Improvement of Space Suit State of Art, CSCO-2021-02)	Completed	—	Portable Life Support System	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Evaluation of graphene-silicon photonic integrated circuits for high-speed, light weight and radiation hard optical communication in space	Completed	—	Optimetrics	University of Delaware
Artificial Intelligence Assisted Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization and Planning	Completed	—	Path Planning	Wichita State University
National Space Grant College & Fellowship Program Training Grant Funding Extension Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2019-2020	Completed	—	Prevention and Countermeasures	New Mexico State University-Grants
Human Factor Analysis of Space Crop Cultivation Methods and Interactions	Completed	—	Human Factors Engineering	University of North Dakota
SiC Zener diode and Voltage References for extended operation (>1000 hr.) at 500 degrees C: SMD Planetary Division, High-Temperature Subsystems and Components for Long-Duration (months) Surface Operations	Completed	—	Power Efficiency	University of Alabama in Huntsville
NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Infrastructure Development (RID) (extension)	Completed	—	Lasers	Brown University
Scalable, High Energy Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (SD-LSB)	Active	—	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
New Unified Framework for Scalable, Risk-Aware, and Resilient Estimation and Control of Satellite Swarms	Completed	—	State Estimation and Monitoring	University of Vermont
Appendix D: Elucidation of stress resilience of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) on Mars-like soil	Completed	—	Architecture and Design of Autonomous Systems	West Virginia University Research Corporation
Novel Smart Skin Biomedical Sensor for Monitoring Crew Health Parameters in a Wireless, Passive, Lightweight, Robust, and Non-invasive Fashion	Completed	—	Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis	Wichita State University
NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research: Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data Representation using Deep Autoencoders and Transfer Learning of BERT for Improved Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
Vermont NASA EPSCoR Program Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Augmentation Request for Years 2 and 3	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Vermont
Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Montana State University - Bozeman
2019 South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Program Funding Augmentation	Completed	—	Lasers	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Program	Completed	—	Lasers	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Nano-based Ceramic-metal Composites to Support Planetary Agrosystems (Appendix D: Crop Plant Stress Tolerance for Space Exploration)	Completed	—	Transformative Health and Performance Concepts	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
From Large to Small Scales and Back: Integrating Observations, Modeling, and Laboratory Experiments of Heliophysics	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	West Virginia University Research Corporation
NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Funding Augmentation 2 – Guam Jurisdiction	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Guam
GEANT4 Simulations for Astronaut Risk Calculations	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	University of Mississippi
Characterization of Low-Pressure Air Plasma Treatment on Polystyrene Coating of Aluminum Alloys 2024 and its Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking Behaviors	Completed	—	Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Developing Nationally Competitive NASA Research in Delaware	Completed	—	Lasers	University of Delaware
R3 Task E19: Atomically Dispersed Metal Electrocatalysts Supported on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nano-Onions for Efficient and Selective CO2 Conversion into Fuels	Completed	—	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	University of Kentucky
Next Generation Additive Manufacturing for Space Applications	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	New Mexico State University-Main Campus
UTILIZING ISS AS A TEST BED TO VALIDATE THE PERFORMANCE OF NANO-ENHANCED POLYMERS SUBJECTED TO ATOMIC OXYGEN AND / OR HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT	Completed	—	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	University of Mississippi
Space-borne Antennas & Circuits for Condensed Radars and STEM (SPACERS)	Completed	—	Innovative Antennas	Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
Metastable Oxygen Nanobubbles to Advanced Life Support Systems in Space Exploration	Completed	—	Portable Life Support System	Maine Space Grant Consortium
Igniting a New Era of Planet Discovery with FHiRE: A Precision Spectrograph at the WIRO Telescope	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	University of Wyoming
ALABAMA NASA EPSCoR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FY15	Completed	—	Collaborative Science and Engineering	—
Characterization of GRCop-42 Additively Manufactured Material (CSCO-2017-03) -- Extended Investigation	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Advanced Transport Technologies for NASA Thermal Management/Control Sytems	Completed	—	Heat Transport	University of Nevada-Las Vegas
New Development for Louisiana Aerospace Research Augmentation	Completed	—	Lasers	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Montana NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Augmentation 2020-2021	Completed	—	Lasers	Montana State University - Bozeman
INE Proposal in Response to NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research Appendix D: NASA SMD Biological and Physical Sciences - Crop Plant Stress Tolerance for Space Exploration - Water Delivery and Gas Exchange Crop Stress Analysis for Space Exploration	Completed	—	Collaborative Science and Engineering	University of Idaho
Appendix D - Improved drought tolerance of mustard green with atmospheric pressure plasmas	Completed	—	Earth Storable Propellants	University of Alabama in Huntsville
FY18 Alabama NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response: Characterization of Bi-Metallic Joints Formed by Different Processes	Completed	—	Grappling Technologies	University of Alabama in Huntsville
Integrated Computational and Experimental Optimization of Materials and Methods for In-Space Manufacturing of Lightweight Metal Alloys (ISM-LMA)	Completed	—	Manufacturing Processes	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Assessment of Radiation Shielding Properties of Novel and Baseline Materials External to ISS	Completed	—	Protection Systems	Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
Fast Traversing Autonomous Rover for Mars Sample Collection	Completed	—	Surface Mobility	West Virginia University Research Corporation
Impact of extreme cold events on disruption of hydro-energy generation	Completed	—	Surface Mobility	Montana State University - Bozeman

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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.

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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.