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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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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 119 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
The Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration Cubesat (MiRaTA) Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
TeraHz Limb Sounder (TLS) for Lower Thermosphere Wind, Temperature, and Atomic Oxygen Density Sensing: System Design and Performance Demonstration Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Johns Hopkins University
Ka-band Doppler Scatterometer for Measurements of Ocean Vector Winds and Surface Currents (DopplerScatt) Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Development and Space Environmental Testing of a new Low-Cost Induction Magnetometer for Small Satellites Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Fusion of Hurricane Models and Observations: Developing the Technology to Improve the Forecasts Completed 6 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle NASA Headquarters
UWBRAD: Ultra Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer for Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Sensing (WISCR) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Advancing Climate Observation: Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes: RAVAN: Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes Completed 7 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Advanced Rapid Imaging & Analysis for Monitoring Hazards (ARIA-MH) Completed 7 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Development and Integration of a Pulsed 2-micron Direct Detection Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) Lidar for CO2 Column Measurement from Airborne platform Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters
GRIFEX: GEO-CAPE Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) In-Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
Multi-Slit Offner Spectrometer Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
Multi-fluid Studies of Chromospheric Reconnection in a Partially Ionized Laboratory Plasma Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Princeton University
Enhancement, Demonstration, and Validation of the Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements: An 8-40 GHz Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements (WISM) Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
A high-resolution, large mass range cycloidal sector coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer for planetary exploration Completed 1 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Duke University
Compact, Robust Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment University of South Carolina-Columbia
Electronic Life-detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE) Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elastic wave analyzer for icy sub-surfaces (EWAIS) in the solar system Completed 2 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors California Institute of Technology
Radiation Hard and High Temperature Tolerant Thermal Imagers (HOT IR) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology
Venus In-Situ Surface Imager Completed 3 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Ohio Aerospace Institute
Photonic Integrated Circuit TUned for Reconnaissance and Exploration (PICTURE) Completed 2 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
DOWSER: Detecting Objects' Water from Spatial Epithermal-neutron Response Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors University of Maryland-College Park
A Far-UV Micromirror Integral Field Spectrograph for Planetary Science Completed 2 Optical Components Planetary Science Institute
In-Situ Organic Extraction, Separation and Detection using Supercritical CO2 and Superheated Water Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment California Institute of Technology
Iodine Radio Frequency (RF) Ion Thruster Development Testing Canceled 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc.
Programmable Ultra Lightweight System Adaptable Radio (PULSAR) Flight Testing Canceled 5 Flight and Ground Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
Autonomous Flight Manager for Human-in-the-Loop Immersive Simulation and Flight Test of Terrestrial Rockets Testing Canceled 4 Touchdown Systems The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) ChargerSat - 2 Parabolic Flight Testing Canceled 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies University of Alabama in Huntsville
Preliminary Research AerodyNamic Design To Land on Mars (PRANDTL-M) Testing Canceled 5 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Optical Mass Measurement System Testing Canceled 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Integrated Spaceflight Services LLC
Polar Mesospheric Cloud Imaging and Tomography Experiment Canceled 5 Environment Sensors Integrated Spaceflight Services LLC
Flight Demonstration of an Integrated Camera and Solid-State Fine Steering System Canceled 4 Mirror Systems Southwest Research Institute - Boulder
Characterizing CubeSat Deployer Dynamics in a Microgravity Environment Canceled 4 Field and Particle Detectors California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Terrain Relative Navigation Descent Imager (TRNDI) Testing Canceled 4 Onboard Navigation Algorithms The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
Rocket Flight of a Delta-Doped Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Focal Plane Array for Colorado High-Resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph (CHESS) Canceled 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Arizona State University-Tempe
Miniature Altitude Determination System Canceled 4 Attitude Estimation Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
New Mexico Student Groups #3 and #4 for SL-8 Canceled 5 Lasers New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
Real Time Conformational Analysis of Rhodopsin using Plasmon Waveguide Resonance Spectroscopy Testing Canceled 4 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Arizona
Assessing Otolith-Organ Function with Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) in Parabolic Flight Canceled 4 Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Johns Hopkins University
Operational Demonstration of the MPS-120 CubeSat High-impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System Canceled 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.
Demonstration of One-Fault Tolerant Precision Navigation for Autolanding Airless Bodies: Flight Two Canceled 5 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Sensor Processing and Processors Astrobotic Technology, Inc.
Electric-hydrodynamic Control of Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Microgravity Testing Canceled 3 Heat Transport New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sub-System Coupling for Grey Water Purification (VPCAR) (VPCAR) Canceled 7 Water Recovery and Management Kennedy Space Center
Lawrence Livermore Deep Violet Instrument (PTD-R) Completed — Optical Components Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Spacecraft Disturbance Isolation and Rejection Platform (SDIRP) Testing Canceled 4 Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Advanced Hybrid Rocket Motor Propulsion Unit for CubeSats (PUC) Testing Canceled 4 Hybrids The Aerospace Corporation
Saturated Fluid Pistonless Pump Technology Demonstrator Canceled 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies University of Colorado Boulder
Picture this SELFI: A Maturation for a Submillimeter Enceladus Life Finder Instrument (SELFI) Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
The DEEP Project: DEtecting Extraterrestrial Piezophiles in Ocean World Analogs Completed — Sample Acquisition and Handling —
Global Reference Atmospheric Model (GRAM) Completed 2 Science Modeling Langley Research Center
PReSSiC: Planetary Remote Sensing using SiC detectors Completed — In Situ Resource Use 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.
💻 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.