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 75 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Loaded Gelled Bipropellants for Optimized Performance, Phase II	Completed	—	Gels	Marshall Space Flight Center
Pressure Controlled Heat Pipe for Precise Temperature Control, Phase I	Completed	—	Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing	Goddard Space Flight Center
Remote On-demand Networked Distributed Operations (RONDO), Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Johnson Space Center
System for Analyzing Microscopic Defects and Defect Propagation Due to Aging, Phase I	Completed	—	Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors	Langley Research Center
Specific Impulse Analysis of Solid Materials for Ablative Laser Propulsion, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Novel Tunable Dye Laser for Lidar Detection, Phase I	Completed	—	Special Materials	Goddard Space Flight Center
High Thermal Conductivity Fabric, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Johnson Space Center
Enhanced Brine Dewatering System, Phase II	Completed	—	Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation	Johnson Space Center
Nanocomposite Thermolectric Materials by High Pressure Powder Consolidation Manufacturing, Phase II	Completed	—	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Continued Development of an Airborne System for Direct Validation of Regional Carbon Flux Estimates (CARAFE)	Completed	7	Environment Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Titan Balloon Convection Model, Phase I	Completed	—	Software Modeling and Model Checking	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Reliability Oscillators for Terahertz Systems, Phase II	Completed	—	Flight and Ground Systems	Goddard Space Flight Center
Composite Matrix Systems for Cryogenic Applications, Phase I	Completed	4	Lightweight Structural Materials	Langley Research Center
Silicon Germanium Quantum Well Solar Cell	Completed	2	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Langley Research Center
Lab on a Chip LCVR Polarimeter for Exploration of Life Signatures, Phase I	Completed	—	Advanced Electronic Parts	Ames Research Center
High Performance Dual Band Photodetector Arrays for MWIR/LWIR Imaging, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Langley Research Center
SMART Tape For Structural Health Monitoring of Rocket Engines, Phase II	Completed	—	Reliability and Sustainment	Marshall Space Flight Center
Superconducting Aero Propulsion Motor, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation	Glenn Research Center
Compact, Dual Channel, Mid-IR Laser Spectrometer, Phase I	Completed	—	Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment	Ames Research Center
An Application to Report Quantitative Measures of the Effectiveness of user Interfaces to be used for Task-Sensitive Evaluations., Phase I	Completed	—	Human Factors Engineering	Johnson Space Center
Lab-on-a-chip Astrobiology Analyzer, Phase II	Completed	—	Heat Sources	Ames Research Center
Nonintrusive Optical Thermometers for Real-Time Control of Fabrication Processes, Phase I	Completed	—	Coatings	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Radiation-Tolerant Reprogrammable FPGA for Digital Signal Processing Circuits, Phase I	Completed	3	High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays	Langley Research Center
High Energy Density Capacitors, Phase II	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Glenn Research Center
Integration of full-spectrum metrology and polishing for rapid production of large aspheres, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Polymer Flip Chips with Extreme Temperature Stability in Space, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Protection Systems	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Efficiency Three Phase Resonant Conversion for Standardized Architecture Power System Applications, Phase II	Completed	4	Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
DC-Motor Drive Encompassing SiGe Asynchronous Control Electronics for Ultra-Wide (-230 °C to +130 °C) Environments, Phase II	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Remote EMI Field Strength Mapping, Phase I	Completed	—	Electromagnetic Environment Effects	Kennedy Space Center
Dual Use Packaging, Phase I	Completed	—	Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Processes	Johnson Space Center
Reconfigurable Task Processor, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Optical Monitor for Major Air Constituents, Phase I	Completed	—	Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hard Upper Torso Shoulder Joint Design for Crew Member Sizing Adjustment and Enhanced Mobility, Phase I	Completed	—	Pressure Garment	Johnson Space Center
Reactive-Separator Process Unit for Lunar Regolith, Phase I	Completed	—	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Glenn Research Center
Advanced Silicone-based Coatings for Flexible Fabric Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Coatings	Langley Research Center
Highly Durable Catalysts for Ignition of Advanced Monopropellants, Phase I	Completed	—	Test Instruments and Sensors	Glenn Research Center
High-Performance Fire Detector for Spacecraft, Phase I	Completed	—	Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery	Glenn Research Center
Integrated Collision Avoidance Enhanced GN&C System for Smart Air Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy	Langley Research Center
Beam Combination for Sparse Aperture Telescopes, Phase II	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Computer-Aided Design Methods for Model-Based Nonlinear Engine Control Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions	Glenn Research Center
Low Power X-Ray Photon Resolving Imaging Array, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Marshall Space Flight Center
Graphical User Interface for High Energy Multi-Particle Transport, Phase II	Completed	—	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Langley Research Center
CuInGaAlSe2 Solar Absorbers On Flexible High-Temperature Substrates, Phase II	Completed	—	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Glenn Research Center
Composites of Fiber-Reinforced Ultra Thin Films for X-ray Applications, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
Materials for Advancement of MXER Tether Design (1000-549), Phase II	Completed	—	Electromagnetic Tethers	Marshall Space Flight Center
Distributed Flight Controls for UAVs, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Photochemical Cyclopolymerization of Polyimides in Ultraviolet Ridgidizing Composites for Use in Inflatable Structures, Phase I	Completed	—	Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines	Langley Research Center
Compact Trace Gas Analysis for Airborne Applications, Phase II	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Ames Research Center
Low Cost Phased Array Antenna System, Phase I	Completed	—	Innovative Antennas	Goddard Space Flight Center
Advancement of the O2 Subsystem to Demonstrate Retrieval of XCO2 Using Simultaneous Laser Absorption Spectrometer Integrated Column Measurements of CO2 and O2	Completed	5	Lasers	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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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.