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 118 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Development of Cryo-CMOS Readout Circuits for Megapixel Arrays of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors	Completed	—	Detectors and Focal Planes	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Solar Neutron TRACking Instrument (SONTRAC)	Completed	4	Field and Particle Detectors	Goddard Space Flight Center
The Occultation Wave Limb Sounder for Thermospheric Gravity Wave Studies (OWLS)	Completed	—	Sensors and Instruments	University of Colorado Boulder
ASHI Instrument Image Analysis using Ground-Based, Extant NASA Spacecraft, and Balloon-Flight Images	Completed	—	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	University of California-San Diego
Sun Coronal Ejection Tracker - JPL (SunCET)	Completed	—	Sensors and Instruments	Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory
Prototyping a Compact Silicon Grism Spectrograph For Characterizing Stars and Exoplanets	Completed	—	Other Sensors and Instruments	The University of Texas at Austin
High performance, stable, and scalable UV aluminum mirror coatings using ALD	Completed	3	Optical Components	California Institute of Technology
Advancement and New Optimizations of Microcalorimeter Arrays for High-Resolution Imaging X-ray Spectroscopy	Completed	1	Detectors and Focal Planes	Goddard Space Flight Center
Expert-Informed Autonomous Science Planning for In-situ Observations and Discoveries	Completed	—	Mission Planning and Scheduling	—
DRILLAWAY: aDaptive, ResIlient Learning-enabLed oceAn World AutonomY (DRILLAWAY)	Completed	—	Execution and Control	—
Optically Pumped Solid-State Quantum Magnetometer OPuS-MAGNM (OPuS-MAGNM)	Completed	2	Sensors and Instruments	California Institute of Technology
A Method to Enable High Contrast Imaging in Multiple Star Systems.	Completed	—	Mirror Systems	—
Electro-Chemical Hydrogen Refrigeration (ECHR) Demonstration FOLLOW-ON	Completed	4	Cryogenic/Thermal Systems	Kennedy Space Center
Plasma Acid Generation as an In-Situ Resource	Completed	4	Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables	Kennedy Space Center
Recycling and Reuse of 3D Printed Plant Growth Hardware for Sanitization and Crop Growth During NASA Missions	Completed	4	Food Production, Processing, and Preservation	Kennedy Space Center
Development of High-Density Wiring Capability for Advanced X-Ray Microcalorimeters	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Development of a Compact Solar Spectral Irradiance Monitor with High Radiometric Accuracy and Stability (CSIM)	Completed	6	Optical Components	NASA Headquarters
Laboratory Demonstration of Multi-Star Wavefront Control in Vacuum.	Completed	3	Optical Components	Ames Research Center
Supporting Shellfish Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Poor Water Quality through Sampling and Remote Sensing	Completed	3	Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence	Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of a Robust, Efficient Process to Produce Scalable, Superconducting kilopixel Far-IR Detector Arrays	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	Johns Hopkins University
Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Receiver	Completed	6	Detectors and Focal Planes	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Electron Beam Lithography Ruled Gratings for Future Ultraviolet/Optical Missions: High-Efficiency and Low-Scatter in the Vacuum Ultraviolet	Completed	5	Optical Components	University of Colorado Boulder
Predictive Thermal Control Technology for potential HabEx Mission	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	—
High Resolution and High Efficiency X-ray Transmission Grating Spectrometer	Completed	4	Optical Components	MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Ultrasensitive Bolometers for Far-IR Spectroscopy at the Background Limit	Completed	4	Detectors and Focal Planes	California Institute of Technology
WASSR: WAter-vapor Sounding Short-range Radar for mapping local atmospheric humidity over the Martian surface from an in situ platform (WASSR)	Completed	4	Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment	California Institute of Technology
Integrated Sample Acquisition Drill and Pneumatic Sample Delivery for Ocean Worlds	Completed	2	Environment Sensors	Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
High-Efficiency Continuous Cooling for Cryogenic Instruments and sub-Kelvin Detectors	Completed	3	Cryogenic/Thermal Systems	—
Turbulence, gravity waves, and instability dynamics observed in polar mesospheric clouds	Completed	4	Optical Components	GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES
High Temperature Memory Electronics for Long-Lived Venus Missions	Completed	3	Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies	Glenn Research Center
A Search for Small-scale Energy Releases in Active Regions and the Quiet Sun with FOXSI-3	Completed	5	Optical Components	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Signals of Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD)	Completed	3	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	NASA Headquarters
The Development of a Groundbreaking Geomagnetic Field Remote Sensor for the Study of Ionospheric Current Systems	Completed	4	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Johns Hopkins University
RainCube, A Precipitation Profiling Radar in a CubeSat	Completed	8	Structures and Antennas	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Super Cloud Library: Empowering Data Management, Diagnosis, and Visualization of Cloud-Resolving Models (CRM) with Spark and Hadoop (SCL)	Completed	5	Collaborative Science and Engineering	NASA Headquarters
ICI-5 Bifocal Flight Opportunity	Completed	5	Field and Particle Detectors	University of Iowa
IceCube: Spaceflight Validation of an 883-GHz Submillimeter Wave Radiometer for Cloud Ice Remote Sensing (IceCube)	Completed	7	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	NASA Headquarters
GeMini Plus: A Miniature Gamma Ray Spectrometer to Measure Near-surface Elemental Composition and Stratigraphy for Resource-Limited Planetary Missions	Completed	—	Destination Resource Exploration	—
Development and flight qualification of a miniature absolute scalar magnetometer	Completed	4	Field and Particle Detectors	Johns Hopkins University
Land Information System for SMAP Tier-1 and AirMOSS Earth Venture-1 Decadal Survey Missions: Integration of SoilSCAPE, remote sensing, and modeling (SoilSCAPE)	Completed	6	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	NASA Headquarters
Compact Multi-Spectral Photometer for Space Science - COMPASS	Completed	—	Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management	—
Demonstration of Starshade Starlight-Suppression Performance in the Field	Completed	—	Human-System Performance Modeling	—
Estimating Carbon Fluxes with Quantum Enabled Annealing Algorithms	Completed	4	Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle	NASA Headquarters
ARCHIMEDES (A Really Cool High Impact Method for Exploring Down into Europan Subsurface)	Completed	3	Environment Sensors	—
High Efficiency Feedhorn-Coupled TES-based Detectors for CMB Polarization Measurements	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	—
The relation of laboratory-generated whistler-mode waves and whistler-mode chorus waves in space	Completed	3	Optical Components	University of California-Los Angeles
Raising the Technology Readiness Level of 4.7-THz local oscillators	Completed	3	Mirror Systems	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beamsteerable GNSS Radio Occultation ASIC	Completed	5	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	NASA Headquarters
Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors and Readouts for Space-Borne CMB Polarimetry	Completed	3	Detectors and Focal Planes	—
Aircraft deployable UV-SWIR multiangle spectropolarimetric imager (AirMSPI-2)	Completed	6	Detectors and Focal Planes	Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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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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Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.