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 57 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Spectrometer for Measuring Water Ice on Airless Bodies	Completed	2	Lasers	Goddard Space Flight Center
Optical Software to Calculate Terrestrial Planet Finder Contrast Including Polarization Effects, Phase I	Completed	—	Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MAHRS: A simple instrument suite to characterize weathering and the habitability of the shallow martian subsurface	Completed	3	Optical Components	—
Methane Pyrolysis for Hydrogen & Carbon Nanotube Recovery from Sabatier Products, Phase II	Completed	—	Atmosphere Revitalization	Marshall Space Flight Center
Multifunctional Integrated Optic Sensor for Detection of Cracks and Corrosion, Phase I	Completed	—	Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors	Langley Research Center
Automated Extraction of Crop Area Statistics from Medium-Resolution Imagery, Phase I	Completed	—	Traffic Management Concepts	Stennis Space Center
FLIGHT WEIGHT MAGNETS USING CARBON NANOTUBES, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Hybrid Electrostatic/Flextensional Deformable Membrane Mirror for Lightweight, Large Aperture and Cryogenic Space Telescopes, Phase II	Completed	—	Measurement and Control	Marshall Space Flight Center
Prediction and Control of the Vibroacoustic Environment During a Launch Sequence, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroacoustics	Kennedy Space Center
Highly Efficient FUV Photodetector with AlGaN Nanowire Photocathode, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Protection Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Rechargeable Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) Battery with Specific Energy 400 Wh/kg and Operating Temperature Range -60°C to 60°C, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	Glenn Research Center
BrahmVE Platform for Design and Test of Large Scale Multi-Agent Human-Centric Mission Concepts, Phase II	Completed	—	Behavioral Health and Performance	Ames Research Center
Enhancing Access to Scientific Models through Standard Web Services, Phase I	Completed	3	Collaborative Science and Engineering	Goddard Space Flight Center
Robust Environmental Barrier Coatings for Silicon Nitride, Phase I	Completed	—	Coatings	Glenn Research Center
UV Rigid Inflatable Wing, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Affordable High Power Density Engine Designs for Personal Air Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies	Langley Research Center
A miniature underwater vehicle/benthic lander for through-ice deployment, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Ames Research Center
MEMS Propulsion Technology Utilizing Decomposing Nitrous Oxide Propellant, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Johnson Space Center
A Cryogenic Flow Sensor, Phase II	Completed	—	Measurement and Control	Marshall Space Flight Center
Unstructured Mesh Movement and Viscous Mesh Generation for CFD-Based Design Optimization, Phase II	Completed	—	Thermal Control Analysis	Armstrong Flight Research Center
In-Service Aircraft Transmission Life Modeling for Improved Flight Safety, Phase II	Completed	—	Distribution and Transmission	Glenn Research Center
CubeSat Form Factor Thermal Control Louvers	Completed	3	Heat Rejection and Storage	Goddard Space Flight Center
Soft x-ray Planetary Imager	Completed	2	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of the r-Gamma Display Concept, Phase II	Completed	—	Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles	Langley Research Center
Attached Inflatable Forebody Decelerator for Spacecraft Aerocapture, Phase I	Completed	—	Aerodynamic Decelerators	Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Polymer Microfluidics Technology for In Situ Planetary Exploration, Phase I	Completed	5	Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Data Description Exchange Services for Heterogeneous Vehicle and Spaceport Control and Monitor Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Informatics and Decision Support Systems	Kennedy Space Center
Wide Range Neutron Detector, Phase I	Completed	—	Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power	Glenn Research Center
FILM-ID: Package for Identification of Multi-Dimensional Film Coefficient Maps, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL	Glenn Research Center
Fused Reality for Enhanced Flight Test Capabilities, Phase I	Completed	—	Flight Mechanics Testing and Flight Operations	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Multifunctional Nanostructured/Microporous Materials, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Langley Research Center
In-Situ Resources Utilization for Organic Chemicals Production, Phase I	Completed	—	Atmosphere Revitalization	Marshall Space Flight Center
A 3-D Miniature LIDAR System for Mobile Robot Navigation, Phase I	Completed	—	Sensing for Robotic Systems	Ames Research Center
Empowering Cloud Resolving Models Through GPU and Asynchronous IO	Completed	4	Exascale Supercomputer File System	NASA Headquarters
Sonic Boom Vibro-Acoustic Simulations using Multiple Point Sources, Phase I	Completed	6	Aeroacoustics	Langley Research Center
Novel Solar Cell Nanotechnology for Improved Efficiency and Radiation Hardness, Phase I	Completed	—	Space Radiation Analysis and Modeling	Glenn Research Center
Sealed Cylindrical Silver/Zinc Batteries, Phase I	Completed	—	Mechanism-Life-Extension Systems	Glenn Research Center
An Inferential System for Determination of Candidate Crash Sites for Search and Rescue Operations, Phase I	Completed	—	Traffic Management Concepts	Goddard Space Flight Center
Modular, Plug and Play, Distributed Avionics, Phase II	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Nanostructured Catalytic Reactors for Air Purification, Phase II	Completed	—	Remediation	Ames Research Center
Real Time, Non-intrusive Detection of Liquid Nitrogen in Liquid Oxygen (LOX) at High Pressure and High Flow, Phase II	Completed	—	Cryogenic Propulsion	Stennis Space Center
Reconfigurable L-band Radar Transceiver using Digital Signal Synthesis, Phase I	Completed	—	Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Rapid Damage-Free Shaping of Lightweight SiC Using Reactive Atom Plasma (RAP) Processing, Phase I	Completed	—	Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes	Goddard Space Flight Center
400 Wh/kg Secondary Battery, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrochemical Storage: Batteries	Glenn Research Center
Micro-Slit Collimators for X-ray/Gamma-ray Imaging, Phase II	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Polarimeter on a Chip: Antenna-Coupled Microbolometers and Polarimeters for Submillimeterwave and Millimeterwave Focal Planes, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Test Peroxide High Sealing Conical Seal, Phase I	Completed	—	Impact, Damage, and Radiation-Resistant Systems	Stennis Space Center
X-Ray Pulsar Based Navigation and Time Determination, Phase I	Completed	—	Revolutionary PNT Technologies	Goddard Space Flight Center
Active MMIC Modulators for High Data Rate Spacecraft Transponders, Phase II	Completed	—	Innovative Signal Modulations	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sensitivity Analysis and Error Control for Computational Aeroelasticity, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	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.

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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.