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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 5 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Static Analysis for Automatic Differentiation, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Nitrous Oxide Propulsion System, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
High-Power Ferrite Stripline Circulators/Isolators, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Non-Intrusive Continuous Wave Acoustic Flowmeter STTR Proposal, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Lightweight High Spatial Frequency Active Mirror Using E Beam Control, Phase II Completed — Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Colloid Thruster for Attitude Control Systems (ACS) and Tip-off Control Applications, Phase II Completed — Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Prognostic and Fault Tolerant Reconfiguration Strategies for Aerospace Power Electronic Controllers and Electric Machines, Phase I Completed 4 Advanced Life Cycle Testing Techniques Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
High Gain, Position Sensitive, Avalanche Photodiode for Optical Communication, Phase II Completed — Optimetrics Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Quantum Entanglement and High Brightness Laser Source (OCR) Completed 2 Quantum Communications Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Agent-based Simulation of NAS, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Mesoporous Catalysts for Ambient Temperature Aqueous Phase Oxidation, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Tunable Seed Lasers for Laser Remote Sensing of CO2 and O2, Phase I Completed — Electronic Packaging and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Constraint-based Analysis of Aircraft Operations, Phase II Completed — Reciprocating Internal Combustion Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Humidity Control for Small Volumes (HUMSV), Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Extreme Ultraviolet Imager –“ Compact (EUVIC) Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Self-Healing Structural Materials for Damage Tolerant Aerospace Vehicles Completed 1 Lightweight Structural Materials Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Carbon Microfiber Airframe Structures Based on an Insect Cuticle Model, Phase I Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Flux dynamics in ultrasensitive superconducting focal planes Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Extended range profiling, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High Efficiency Digital X-ray Detector, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Order of magnitude enhancement of AlGaN UV photo-detector efficiency, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Microwave Readout to Enable the Imaging Spectrometer for the X-ray Surveyor Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Microparticle Enhanced Energy Transfer, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Sensor Area Network for Integrated Systems Health Management, Phase II Completed — Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Integrated Ejector Pump Flow Control for Low-Pressure Turbine, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
A Novel Approach of Sensitive Infrared Signal Detection for Space Applications Completed 1 Tests, Tools, and Methods Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Optimized Integration and Full Autonomy of the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor for Global Hawk, ER-2, and WB-57 Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2018-10-10 —
SensorLine: A Distributed Sensor System for Planetary Exploration, Phase I Completed — Static Energy Conversion Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Rhombohedrel Hybrid Crystal Semiconductor Device Completed 3 Hybrids Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Virtual National Airspace with Human Pilots and Controllers, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Advanced Microbial Monitoring System for Space Flight Applications, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Quantum Cascade Laser System for Monitoring Ammonia and Formaldehyde, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
Development of New Dielectric NDE Techniques for Spaceflight Materials Completed 2 Thermal Protection Materials Kennedy Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Development of In-situ Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques and Physical Standards for Inspection of Welded Tubing used in Spacecraft Completed 6 Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Hierarchical Intelligent Data Fusion Architecture for System Health Management, Phase I Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Cavitation Model for Turbopumps in Liquid Rocket Systems, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
BasinTools Module 1, Online Remote Sensing Interface, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Stennis Space Center 2018-10-10 —
Large Inflatable Self-Rigidizing Polymer Film Structures, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
In-Situ Training of Anthropomorphic Robots, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2018-10-10 —
BrahmsVE: Proof of Concept for Human/Agent Intelligent Augmentation, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Optimetric Measurements with Continuous Optical Carriers Phase of Coherent Optical Communication Completed 1 Optimetrics Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Broadband Phase Shifter for High Contrast Nulling Interferometry Completed 3 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
High Heat Flux Evaporator for Two Phase Transport Loops, Phase II Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Goddard Space Flight Center 2018-10-10 —
Integrated Ejector Pump Flow Control for Low-Pressure Turbine, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Glenn Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Microporous Carbon for Radiation Shielding and Hydrogen Storage, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research Center 2018-10-10 —
STO-2: Support for 4th Year Operations, Recovery, and Science: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Co-I Completed 7 Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems — 2018-10-10 —
A High Performance Cathode Heater for Hall Thrusters, Phase I Completed — Electrostatic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-10-10 —
A Versatile Apparatus and Method for Remote Autonomous Robot Mobility, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2018-10-10 —
Diffuse X-rays from the Local galaxy (DXL) Completed — Offline Element Processing — 2018-10-10 —
Active Sensors, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Langley Research 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.