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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14,251 projects harvested so far — page 5 of 286.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Floating Slosh Damper Development	Completed	4	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Marshall Space Flight Center
Rust in cFS: Prevent Bugs with Memory-Safe Programming	Completed	4	Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards	Goddard Space Flight Center
FY18-C1 GRC Combined Structural Dynamic Testing Methodology for Large Non-Linear Structures	Completed	3	Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing	Glenn Research Center
Handheld Laser Mass Spec System for Light Volatile and Isotope Analysis on the Moon.	Completed	1	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Additive Manufacturing of Refractory Metal Nb Alloy C103 for Propulsion Applications	Completed	3	Manufacturing Processes	Castheon Inc.
Particle filter Simulation and Analysis Enabling Non-Traditional Navigation Project	Completed	4	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
GPS Low Cross-polarization Antenna Array for Orbit Determination beyond Geostationary Earth Orbits	Completed	2	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Interface Mixing Mechanisms in the Additive Manufacturing of Copper and Nickel Based Alloys and their Influence on Repeatability and Reliability	Completed	3	Materials	Marshall Space Flight Center
Integrated Zero-Emission Aviation (IZEA) using a Robust Hybrid Architecture (IZEA)	Active	2	Hybrid Electric Systems	Florida State University
Lunar Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)	Active	5	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Passively Compensated Low-Power Chip-Scale Clocks for Wireless Communication in Harsh Environments	Completed	3	Timekeeping and Time Distribution	Stanford University
A Low-Cost Vacuum Compatible Camera to Enable Key Demonstrations for the Habitable Worlds Observatory and Beyond	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Autonomous On-Board Optical Navigation Software	Completed	4	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Goddard Space Flight Center
Position Correlated Vision Dataset from Multirotor and Fixed-wing sUAS of General Aviation aircraft, Fixed-wing sUAS, Multirotor sUAS, and Birds	Completed	4	GN&C	Langley Research Center
Ku/X-band Smallsat Precipitation Radar Concept Development	Completed	6	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
Onset of the Organic Processing Analytical Laboratory (OPAL)	Completed	3	In Situ Resource Use	Goddard Space Flight Center
Spacecraft Loads and Acoustic Measurement System (SLAM)	Completed	6	Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing	Wallops Flight Facility
FY17 GRC: TREES - Thermal Recovery Energy Efficient System	Completed	3	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Glenn Research Center
ICS Technology Demonstration Mission (Impulse Control System)	Completed	5	GN&C	Goddard Space Flight Center
Compact Flight-Path High-Speed High-Voltage Pulse Driver Module to Advance Instrumentation for Planetary and Lunar Science Applications	Completed	2	Electronics	Goddard Space Flight Center
Low SWaP Multichannel Analog Pulse Waveform Read-out on a Chip for Lidar	Completed	4	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Factors and Habitability Assessment Tool	Completed	6	Habitability and Environment	Johnson Space Center
Low-cost Mars EDL solutions	Completed	2	Entry, Descent, and Landing	Langley Research Center
Development and Flight Test of Modernized Electronics for Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere Fields Payload	Completed	6	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Container Flight Software	Completed	4	Cyber Infrastructure	Goddard Space Flight Center
High Pressure Transcritical Combustion (HPTC Combustion)	Completed	2	Aero Propulsion	Glenn Research Center
Development of Wideband, Dual Polarized L-Band Array Antenna for Digital Beam forming SAR	Completed	2	Structures and Antennas	Goddard Space Flight Center
Low-Power, Fault-Tolerant, Hybrid Instrument Processor	Completed	3	Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Measuring the coating stress of DC-magnetron sputtered Ir on curved Si substrates	Completed	5	Coatings	Goddard Space Flight Center
The Deep Space Positioning System-Navigator (DPS-Navigator)	Completed	6	Onboard Navigation Algorithms	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wireless Sensor Dots for Advanced Vehicle Measurements	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Marshall Space Flight Center
Center for High-Efficiency Electrical Technologies for Aircraft (CHEETA)	Completed	1	All-Electric Propulsion	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OH Solar Radiometer	Completed	3	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Next Generation Micro-Shutter: high yield fabrication architecture demonstration test	Completed	4	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Near-Noiseless Phase-Sensitive Pre-amplifier for Ultra-high Receiver Sensitivity in 10 Gbps and Above Optical Near-Earth/Near-Lunar Satellite Networks	Completed	3	Optical Components	Goddard Space Flight Center
Non-Contact Creep Characterization of High Temperature Materials for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Completed	3	Nuclear Thermal Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Graphene Chemical Sensor Project	Completed	1	Environment Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
RCA: Modeling Tools for CLmax Prediction	Completed	2	Flight Vehicle Systems	Langley Research Center
Compact High OPR Gas Generator	Completed	2	Turbine-Based Jet Engines	Glenn Research Center
Metrology for the Development of Segmented X-ray Mirror Assemblies Utilizing Fizeau Interferometric Stitching	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Additively Manufactured Integral Turbine Blade Tuned Mass Absorber	Completed	4	Electric Space Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Electrolytic Oxygen Production Technology for Advanced ECLSS	Completed	3	Atmosphere Revitalization	Marshall Space Flight Center
An Assessment of UV Sensor Materials and Architectures for Sensitive UV Spectrometer Production	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Breadboarding FETCH, the Faraday Effect Tracker for Coronal and Heliospheric Structures (FETCH)	Completed	4	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Novel Deployable Sunshade	Completed	6	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
Green Lab Certification	Completed	—	—	Kennedy Space Center
Development of a High Fidelity Solar Sail Dynamics Model	Completed	2	Solar Sails	Marshall Space Flight Center
Balloon-Borne Cryogenic Telescope Testbed (BOBCAT)	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Goddard Space Flight Center
PIC-ASIC Spectrometer Demonstration for Ultrawideband and Hyperspectral Microwave Sounding (PICASIC)	Completed	3	Sensors and Instruments	Goddard Space Flight Center
NextSTEP Phase 2 Environmental Control Life Support Systems Modularity Study (NSTEP ECLSS)	Completed	3	Atmosphere Revitalization	NASA Headquarters

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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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Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.