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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.

What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 90 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Lightweight Exit Cone for Liquid Rocket Engines, Phase I Completed — Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Automated Service Discovery using Autonomous Control Technologies, Phase I Completed — Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling Kennedy Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Flexible and Safe Control of Mobile Surface Systems, Phase II Completed — Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Engineered Multifunction Surfaces for Fluid Handling, Phase II Completed — Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Automated Feature Extraction from Hyperspectral Imagery, Phase II Completed — Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Processes Stennis Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Ultrahigh Throughput Flow Cytometer for Cell and Molecular Analysis in uG, Phase I Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
An In-situ, Biogeochemical Sensor using Excitation-Emission Matrix Fluorometry, Phase II Completed — Electrothermal Propulsion Stennis Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Just-in-Time Simulation Platform, Phase I Completed — Training Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Nano-g Micromachined Inertial Sensors with Low Payload Impact, Phase I Completed — Test Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Radiation Hardened Turbo Coded OFDM Modulator, Phase I Completed — Point-of-Load Power Converters Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Nitrous Oxide Fuel Blend-Continuous Operation Lunar Thruster (NOFB-COLT), Phase II Completed — Hybrids Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Miniature Turbine for Pulse-Tube/Reverse-Brayton Hybrid Cryocooler, Phase I Completed — Turbine-Based Combined Cycle Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Concept of Operations Storyboarding Tool, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Parfocal wide field near infrared grism design and fabrication for WFIRST Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Using a Bore Sight Camera as an AR&D Sensor, Phase I Completed 4 Relative Navigation Sensors Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Transparent Integration of SINDA/G into Patran, Phase I Completed — Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Lunar Oxygen and Silicon Beneficiation Using Only Solar Power, Phase II Completed — Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Advanced Calibration Source for Planetary and Earth Observing Imaging Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Stennis Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Ultra Low Noise 1.06 Micron Laser Oscillator, Phase I Completed — Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Autonomous Intelligent Health Monitoring for Robust Fault-Tolerant Control of Multi-Modal System, Phase I Completed — Smart Materials Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Simulation-Based Lunar Telerobotics Design, Acquisition and Training Platform for Virtual Exploration, Phase I Completed — V&V of Software systems Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Efficient Swath Mapping Laser Altimetry Demonstration Completed 5 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2025-01-27 —
Physics Based Tool for Rotorcraft Computational Aeroacoustics, Phase I Completed — Aeroacoustics Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
ACES-Based Testbed and Bayesian Game-Theoretic Framework for Dynamic Airspace Configuration, Phase I Completed 3 Traffic Management Concepts Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Flexible T/R Modules for Large-Aperture, Space-Based SAR, Phase II Completed — Flexible Material Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-01-27 —
Flash 3D Enhancements for Autonomous Precision Landing and Hazard Detection and Avoidance, Phase I Completed — Relative Navigation Sensors Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Fast Readout for Large Area Photon-Counting Infrared Detectors, Phase II Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Dynamic Damage Modeling for IRAC Simulations, Phase I Completed — Fault Response Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Blade Vibration Measurement System for Characterization of Closely Spaced Modes and Mistuning, Phase I Completed — Tests, Tools, and Methods Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Mid-Infrared Lasers Completed 1 Lasers Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Compact Scalable Navigation and Stabilization System for Spectral Imagers, Phase II Completed — Navigation Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Transoner Power Transfer for TWT Power Systems, Phase I Completed — Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
In Situ Oxygen Production from Lunar and Martian Regolith, Phase I Completed — Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
High-Efficiency, High-Temperature, Ultra-Lightweight GaP-Based Solar Cells, Phase I Completed — Photovoltaic Electrical Power Glenn Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Flash 3D Rendezvous and Docking Sensor, Phase II Completed — Relative Navigation Sensors Johnson Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Generalized Reduced Order Model Generation, Phase I Completed — Design and Analysis Tools and Methods Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Sub-Micron Particle Removal From Gas-Water Mixtures Without Flow Restrictions, Phase II Completed — Food Production, Processing, and Preservation Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Avionics for Scaled Remotely Operated Vehicles, Phase I Completed — Aircraft Avionics Systems Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Hydrogen Sulfide Micro-Sensor for Biomass Fouling Detection, Phase I Completed — Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors Kennedy Space Center 2025-01-27 —
In Situ Wake Vortex Encounter Detection and Reporting System, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Langley Research Center 2025-01-27 —
High-Speed Thermal Characterization of Cryogenic Flows, Phase I Completed — Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management Stennis Space Center 2025-01-27 —
A 10kWatt 36GHz Solid-State Power Amplifier using GaN-on-Diamond, Phase I Completed — Power Efficiency Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
Airport Surface Management Tools for NAS Users, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Load Responsive MLI: Thermal Insulation with High In-Atmosphere and On-Orbit Performance, Phase I Completed 4 Launch Vehicle Propellant Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-01-27 —
EarthTutor: An Earth Science Satellite Imagery Tutor, Phase II Completed — High-Performance Processors Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Adaptive Magnetorheological Isolator for Ground Support Equipment, Phase I Completed — Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies Kennedy Space Center 2025-01-27 —
Numerical Algorithms for Steady and Unsteady Multi-Disciplinary Simulation of Flight Vehicles, Phase I Completed — Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL Armstrong Flight Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Novel Supercomputing Approaches for High Performance Linear Algebra Using FPGAs, Phase II Completed — Launch Vehicle Propellant Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
Model Updating in Online Aircraft Prognosis Systems, Phase I Completed — Traffic Management Concepts Ames Research Center 2025-01-27 —
BrahmVE platform for design and test of Large Scale Multi-agent Human-centric Mission Concepts, Phase I Completed — Goal and Task Negotiation Ames 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.