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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15,851 projects harvested so far — page 8 of 318.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Counterflow Regolith Heat Exchanger, Phase I	Completed	—	Heat Transport	Kennedy Space Center
Super Lightweight, Metal Rubber Fabric for Extreme Space Environments, Phase I	Completed	—	Flexible Material Systems	Langley Research Center
Durable Silver Mirror Coating Via Ion Assisted, Electron Beam Evaporation For Large Aperture Optics, Phase II	Completed	—	Measurement and Control	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Integrated Advanced Monopropellant CMC Thruster / Thermal Stand-Off Assembly, Phase I	Completed	—	Electrothermal Propulsion	Marshall Space Flight Center
Synthetic Receptor-Based Biosensor for Safety and Security Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rigidized Deployable Lifting Brake for Atmospheric Entry, Phase I	Completed	—	Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation	Marshall Space Flight Center
Oxidatively Stable Flexible Aerogel Composites for Reusable TPS, Phase I	Completed	—	Hardware-Enabling Secure Avionics	Langley Research Center
Physics-Based Pneumatic Hammer Instability Model, Phase I	Completed	—	Mechanism-Life-Extension Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Low-Loss Packaged Ka-Band (26.5 GHz) MEMS Phase Shifter, Phase I	Completed	—	Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations	Glenn Research Center
Semantic Summarization for Context Aware Manipulation of Data, Phase I	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	Ames Research Center
Airport Configuration Planner with Optimized Weather Forecasts, Phase I	Completed	—	Traffic Management Concepts	Ames Research Center
Subsurface Coring Sampler System, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Miniaturized, Low Power Cryogenic Inlet System with Sampling Probes for Titan, Phase II	Completed	—	Sample Acquisition and Handling	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Flight Systems Monitor, Phase I	Completed	—	Management and Control	Ames Research Center
Scaled Model Technology for Flight Research of General Aviation Aircraft, Phase II	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	Langley Research Center
X-band Cube Satellite Communication System Demonstration	Completed	5	Innovative Signal Modulations	Goddard Space Flight Center
High-Efficiency, Low-Temperature Regenerators for Cryocoolers, Phase II	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Ames Research Center
Intelligent Medical Systems for Aerospace Emergency Medical Services, Phase I	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Ames Research Center
Finite Element Multidisciplinary Optimization Simulation of Flight Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	Armstrong Flight Research Center
An Advanced Rapid Cycling CO2 and H2O Control System for PLSS, Phase II	Completed	—	Portable Life Support System	Johnson Space Center
Radiation Hard Multi-Layer Optical Coatings, Phase I	Completed	—	Coatings	Marshall Space Flight Center
Intelligence-Based Multi-Resolution 3D Visual Modeling, Registration And Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities For Unmanned Vehicles, Phase I	Completed	—	Training	Marshall Space Flight Center
Lightweight InP Solar Cells for Space Applications, Phase I	Completed	—	Photovoltaic Electrical Power	Glenn Research Center
Microgravity Compatible Gas-Liquid Separation using Capillary Pressure Gradients, Phase I	Completed	—	Heat Rejection and Storage	Marshall Space Flight Center
Low Mach Scramjet Cavity Flameholder Stabilization, Phase I	Completed	—	Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions	Langley Research Center
Light Weight Concepts for Mirrors, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Goddard Space Flight Center
A Constraint-Based Geospatial Data Integration System for Wildfire Management, Phase I	Completed	—	Intelligent Data Understanding	Ames Research Center
Lunar Surface Navigation, Phase I	Completed	—	State Estimation	Glenn Research Center
Serial In-Line Instrumentation Bus for ROV Engineering Research, Phase I	Completed	—	Informatics and Decision Support Systems	Langley Research Center
FINITE ELEMENT MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT VEHICLES, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Armstrong Flight Research Center
Low-Cost, Silicon Carbide Replication Technique for LWIR Mirror Fabrication, Phase I	Completed	—	Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes	Marshall Space Flight Center
Low-Cost Composite Technology for Large Rocket Payload Fairings, Phase I	Completed	—	Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces	Marshall Space Flight Center
Next-Generation Collaboration Tools to Support Telescience and Outreach, Phase II	Completed	—	Decompression Sickness Mitigation	Marshall Space Flight Center
High-Rate Data Input using the Tilera Multicore Processor	Completed	2	High-Performance Processors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Fault Detection, Identification, Reconstruction, and Fault-Tolerant Estimation for Distributed Spacecraft, Phase II	Completed	—	GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ultra-compact, High Resolution, LADAR system for 3D Imaging, Phase I	Completed	—	Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing	Johnson Space Center
Bifurcation Tools for Flight Dynamics Analysis and Control System Design, Phase I	Completed	—	Aeroelasticity	Langley Research Center
Electro-Optic Tunable Laser Sensor, Phase I	Completed	—	Lasers	Marshall Space Flight Center
Single-Frequency Semiconductor Lasers Operating at 1.5 and 2.0 microns, Phase I	Completed	3	Lasers	Langley Research Center
High Performance Methane Thrust Chamber (HPMTC), Phase I	Completed	—	Cryogenic Propulsion	Johnson Space Center
A Low Cost Light Weight Polymer Derived Ceramic Telescope Mirror, Phase I	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	Marshall Space Flight Center
Distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Multifunctional Autonomous Robust Sensor Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Integrated Flight Operations Systems	Langley Research Center
Efficient Techniques for Formal Verification of PowerPC 750 Executables, Phase II	Completed	6	Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards	Ames Research Center
Radiation-Tolerant, Space Wire-Compatible Switching Fabric, Phase II	Completed	—	High-Speed Onboard Interconnects and Networks	Goddard Space Flight Center
Transmission and Distribution of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) for Biomass Production in Exploration Missions [7226-270], Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
Ultraviolet AlGaN-based Avalanche Photo Diode Grown over Single Crystal Bulk AlN Substrates, Phase I	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	Langley Research Center
Wide-Bandgap CIAS Photovoltaic Absorber on Flexible Substrates, Phase II	Completed	—	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Glenn Research Center
3-D Wind and Turbulence Measurement System for UAV, Phase I	Completed	—	Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors	Ames Research Center
Thin Mirror Shaping Technology for High-Throughput X-ray Telescopes	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	—
Debugging and Event Tracing for Multi-Agent Systems, Phase I	Completed	—	Weather and Environment	Ames 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.