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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 66 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Metabolic Heat Regenerated Temperature Swing Adsorption for CO2, Thermal and Humidity Control, Phase I Completed 3 Ground Analogs for Space and Surface Systems Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Virtual Satellite Integration Environment, Phase I Completed — Vehicle and Payload Assembly and Integration Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
In Situ Wake Vortex Encounter Detection and Reporting System, Phase II Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Noninvasive Automated Diagnostic System for Aircraft Wiring, Phase I Completed — Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset Armstrong Flight Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for Radioisotope Stirling Systems, Phase I Completed — Heat Sources Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Multispectral Panoramic Imaging System, Phase I Completed — Optical Components Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Actively Deformable Control Device for Fatigue Life Enhancement, Phase I Completed — Decompression Sickness Mitigation Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Robust Engineered Thermal Control Material Systems for Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and Prometheus Needs, Phase I Completed — Heat Rejection and Storage Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Integrated MMIC for Phase-Locked Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers, Phase I Completed — Innovative RF Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Mutlifunctional Fibers for Energy Generation/Storage and Thermal Controls in Extravehicular Mobility Unity, Phase I Completed — Testing and Evaluation Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Low Power Mass Spectrometer employing TOF, Phase I Completed — Timekeeping and Time Distribution Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Alchemist - Air Separation Technology Development, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
A New Wick Structure to Significantly Improve Heat Pipe Performance, Phase I Completed — Heat Transport Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
An IntegratedTurbulence Hazard Decision Aid for the Cockpit, Phase II Completed — Architectures and Infrastructure Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
UAVSAR Global Hawk POLSAR (POLSAR) Completed 5 Electronics NASA Headquarters 2025-01-27 —
Efficient and Accurate Computational Framework for Injector Design and Analysis, Phase II Completed — Cryogenic Analysis, Safety, and Properties Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Authoring software for developing 3D photo-realistic terrain models., Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Advanced Product Water Removal and Management (APWR) Fuel Cell System, Phase II Completed — Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Lunar In-Situ Volatile Extraction, Phase I Completed — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Sensor Array Analyzer for Planetary Exploration, Phase I Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Lunar Oxygen and Silicon Beneficiation Using Only Solar Power, Phase I Completed — Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Triaxial Swirler Liquid Injector Development, Phase I Completed — Gels Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Thermo-Mechanical Analysis for an Integrated Turbopump Design System, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Low Mass Aeroshell Deployment Mechanism, Phase II Completed — Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Multifunctional High Performance Textiles, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Spectroscopic Dosimeter, Phase I Completed — Monitoring Technology Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Wireless MEMs BioSensor, Phase I Completed — Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Additives to Increase Fuel Heat Sink Capacity, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
High-Power Density SOFCs for Aviation Applications, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Miniature, Autonomous Electrochemical Multisensors, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Novel Materials for Mirror Substrate in Space Telescopes, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Advanced Approaches to Greatly Reduce Hydrogen Gas Crossover Losses in PEM Electrolyzers Operating at High Pressures and Low Current Densities, Phase II Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Low-Cost LIDAR for Wake Vortex Detection, Phase I Completed — Lasers Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
X-Ray Pulsar Based Navigation and Time Determination, Phase II Completed — Revolutionary PNT Technologies Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Polarization Imaging Apparatus for Cell and Tissue Imaging and Diagnostics, Phase I Completed — Measurement and Control Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Extreme Environment Damage Index and Accumulation Model for CMC Laminate Fatigue Life Prediction, Phase II Completed — Computational Materials Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
High Efficiency Refrigeration Process, Phase II Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Precise Thrust Actuation by a Micro RF Ion Engine, Phase I Completed — Cryogenic Propulsion Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Radiation Hard Multi-Layer Optical Coatings, Phase II Completed — Coatings Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Advanced Data Mining and Deployment for Integrated Vehicle Health Management and the Space Vehicle Lifecycle, Phase II Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
System-Level Autonomy Trust Enabler (SLATE), Phase I Completed — Flight Performance and Analysis Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Computational Models for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems, Phase II Completed — Aeroelasticity Armstrong Flight Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Resonating Nitrous Oxide Thruster, Phase I Completed — Cold Gas Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
A novel material for next generation MEMS and Sensor Devices Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Multi-layer Architecture for Trajectory Replanning and Intelligent plan eXecution (MATRIX), Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Miniature Loop Heat Pipe with Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers, Phase I Completed — Heat Transport Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Two-dimensional gas micro-well detector fabricated using advanced processing technology (3-DTI, MWD) Completed 1 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Lithium Battery Electrolytes for Long Cycle Life and Wide Operating Temperature Range, Phase I Completed — Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Crew Cerebral Oxygen Monitor, Phase I Completed — Behavioral Health and Performance Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
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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.