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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 →

21,052 projects harvested so far — page 120 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
2-µm high-power, high repetition rate pulsed fiber laser for lidar Martian atmospheric CO2 and pressure profiling Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters
Hybrid AC/DC Magnetometer with Attitude Determination and Control System Active 3 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Measuring optical constants of multilayer materials for current and future hard X-ray space telescopes Completed Mirror Systems Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
PARTI Pucks (PARTI) Completed Innovative Antennas Stone Aerospace, Inc.
Robust, Explainable Autonomy for Scientific Icy Moon Operations Completed Anomaly Detection California Institute of Technology
Ultra-Violet Detector Innovation for Raman Exploration and CharacTerization (UV-DIRECT) of Ocean Worlds Completed 2 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-College Park
Flexible Ion Sensing Array (FISA) Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments California Institute of Technology
A Miniaturized, Multifunctional, Microscopic Organic/Inorganic Composition Analytical Probe for Planetary in situ Spectroscopy Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
ORIGINS: Photothermal Spectroscopy for Planetary Sciences (ORIGINS) Completed 2 Sensors and Instruments University of Central Florida
OptiDrill: The next-generation instrumented drill Completed 4 In Situ Resource Use Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
CMOS Digital Ground Penetrating Radar with Hardware Embedded Artificial Intelligence for Sub-Surface Exploration Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tunable Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Lidar for 4D Volatile Mapping Completed Sensing and Perception NASA Headquarters
A Robust Electron Source for a Miniaturized Electron Probe for In Situ Elemental Microanalysis Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Enabling multi-platform mission planning and operations simulation environments for adaptive remote sensors Completed 4 Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design Ohio State University-Main Campus
4D Tomography Study Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Stable, Non-Cesiated III-Nitride Photocathode for Ultraviolet Astronomy Applications Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes
Flight receivers for orbital remote sensing of buried lunar ice deposits via CoRaLS: the Cosmic Ray Lunar Sounder Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tunable Light-guide Image Processing Snapshot Spectrometer (TuLIPSS) for Earth Science Research and Observation Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Rice University
Technology Development for Direct Fabrication of Light-Weight High-Resolution Full-Shell X-Ray Optics Completed 3 Mirror Systems Marshall Space Flight Center
RISE-UP: Ross Ice Shelf and Europa Underwater Probe Completed Engine Icing
Phase Measurement System for Gravitational Wave Detection Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors
High Energy, Long Cycle Life, and Extreme Temperature Lithium-Sulfur Battery for Venus Missions Completed Electrochemical Storage: Batteries University of Dayton
Microfluidic Wet Chemistry Laboratory (mWCL) for Assessing Habitability of Ocean Worlds by Analysis of Surface or Plume Samples Completed Sample Acquisition and Handling
A miniaturized, low-power magnetometer system for lunar surface observatories Active Power Management and Distribution University of California-Los Angeles
PLASMA: Pulsed Laser Ablation Sampling and Mass Analysis (PLASMA) Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-College Park
Development of a Hard X-ray Photoelectric Polarimeter Completed Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE) Completed Below-Surface Mobility
Integrated Digital Earth Analysis System (IDEAS) (IDEAS) Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Computational Reconfigurable Imaging Spectrometer (CRISP) Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modular Dual-band Ku/Ka Antenna Tile with Digital Calibration (K-Tile) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Lunar Meteoroid Monitor (LMM) Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder
Multimodal Locomotion Enabling Ocean Worlds Science Operations Completed Surface Mobility
Aerial Mobility and Cross-cutting Avionics (AMCA) Completed 3 Above-Surface Mobility Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Precision Assembly of Thin Mirror X-ray Telescopes Completed 4 Mirror Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scalable Beamforming Radar Processor for High Resolution Imaging of Planetary Surfaces Completed 2 Optical Components
Multi-Functional Lidar Measurements to Identify and Characterize Marine Debris using Time-Resolved Fluorescence Completed 3 Lasers Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Quantum Computing for Earth Science and Classical Machine Learning for Image-to-Image Translation of Earth Images Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Superconducting Traveling-Wave Kinetic Inductance Amplifiers for Detector Readout and Other Applications Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Measuring Sediment Flux at a Mars Analog Site Using Multilayer Solid-State Saltation Sensors. Completed TPS Instrumentation
Three Band Cloud and Precipitation Radar (3CPR) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
CRATER: Characterization of Regolith And Trace Economic Resources (CRATER) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-College Park
A Compact Adaptable Microwave Limb Sounder for Atmospheric Composition (CAMLS) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
The Development of A Double Hemispherical Probe for The Advancement of Space Plasma Measurements Completed 2 Environment Sensors
Bandstructure Engineered Type-II superlattice Antimonide Avalanche Photodiodes (BETA-APD) for Space Lidar Instruments Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Ohio State University-Main Campus
A Fiber-Coupled Plasmonic Spectrometer for In Situ Characterization of Solar System Surfaces Completed 2 Environment Sensors
SRI CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science: Instrument Development and Demonstration (CIRES-IDD) Completed 5 Distributed Aperture SRI International
A Novel Optical Etalon for Precision Radial Velocity Measurements Completed 3 Optical Components California Institute of Technology
Maturing the TRL of a Complete CDEX Dating Instrument Completed 4 Lasers
A Solar Occultation Instrument Suitable for Constellations of Small Satellites Completed 5 Optical Components Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ultra-bright scintillator for planetary gamma ray spectroscopy Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes
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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.