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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 121 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
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 2025-06-10 —
Signals of Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD) Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
RainCube, A Precipitation Profiling Radar in a CubeSat Completed 8 Structures and Antennas Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
ICI-5 Bifocal Flight Opportunity Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors University of Iowa 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
GeMini Plus: A Miniature Gamma Ray Spectrometer to Measure Near-surface Elemental Composition and Stratigraphy for Resource-Limited Planetary Missions Completed — Destination Resource Exploration — 2025-06-10 —
Development and flight qualification of a miniature absolute scalar magnetometer Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Johns Hopkins University 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
Compact Multi-Spectral Photometer for Space Science - COMPASS Completed — Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management — 2025-06-10 —
Demonstration of Starshade Starlight-Suppression Performance in the Field Completed — Human-System Performance Modeling — 2025-06-10 —
Estimating Carbon Fluxes with Quantum Enabled Annealing Algorithms Completed 4 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
ARCHIMEDES (A Really Cool High Impact Method for Exploring Down into Europan Subsurface) Completed 3 Environment Sensors — 2025-06-10 —
High Efficiency Feedhorn-Coupled TES-based Detectors for CMB Polarization Measurements Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-06-10 —
The relation of laboratory-generated whistler-mode waves and whistler-mode chorus waves in space Completed 3 Optical Components University of California-Los Angeles 2025-06-10 —
Raising the Technology Readiness Level of 4.7-THz local oscillators Completed 3 Mirror Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2025-06-10 —
Beamsteerable GNSS Radio Occultation ASIC Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors and Readouts for Space-Borne CMB Polarimetry Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-06-10 —
Aircraft deployable UV-SWIR multiangle spectropolarimetric imager (AirMSPI-2) Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-06-10 —
The Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration Cubesat (MiRaTA) Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
Ka-band Doppler Scatterometer for Measurements of Ocean Vector Winds and Surface Currents (DopplerScatt) Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
Fusion of Hurricane Models and Observations: Developing the Technology to Improve the Forecasts Completed 6 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
UWBRAD: Ultra Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer for Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Sensing (WISCR) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
Advanced Rapid Imaging & Analysis for Monitoring Hazards (ARIA-MH) Completed 7 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
GRIFEX: GEO-CAPE Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) In-Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
Multi-Slit Offner Spectrometer Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2025-06-10 —
Multi-fluid Studies of Chromospheric Reconnection in a Partially Ionized Laboratory Plasma Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Princeton University 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-10 —
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 2025-06-13 —
Compact, Robust Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment University of South Carolina-Columbia 2025-06-13 —
Electronic Life-detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE) Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2025-06-13 —
Elastic wave analyzer for icy sub-surfaces (EWAIS) in the solar system Completed 2 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors California Institute of Technology 2025-06-13 —
Radiation Hard and High Temperature Tolerant Thermal Imagers (HOT IR) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology 2025-06-13 —
Venus In-Situ Surface Imager Completed 3 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Ohio Aerospace Institute 2025-06-13 —
Photonic Integrated Circuit TUned for Reconnaissance and Exploration (PICTURE) Completed 2 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-06-13 —
DOWSER: Detecting Objects' Water from Spatial Epithermal-neutron Response Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors University of Maryland-College Park 2025-06-13 —
A Far-UV Micromirror Integral Field Spectrograph for Planetary Science Completed 2 Optical Components Planetary Science Institute 2025-06-13 —
In-Situ Organic Extraction, Separation and Detection using Supercritical CO2 and Superheated Water Completed 2 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment California Institute of Technology 2025-06-13 —
Iodine Radio Frequency (RF) Ion Thruster Development Testing Canceled 3 Electrostatic Propulsion Busek Company, Inc. 2025-06-25 —
Programmable Ultra Lightweight System Adaptable Radio (PULSAR) Flight Testing Canceled 5 Flight and Ground Systems Marshall Space Flight Center 2025-06-25 —
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. 2025-06-25 —
University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) ChargerSat - 2 Parabolic Flight Testing Canceled 4 Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies University of Alabama in Huntsville 2025-06-25 —
Preliminary Research AerodyNamic Design To Land on Mars (PRANDTL-M) Testing Canceled 5 Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles Armstrong Flight Research Center 2025-06-25 —
Advanced Optical Mass Measurement System Testing Canceled 4 Cryogenic Propulsion Integrated Spaceflight Services LLC 2025-06-25 —
Polar Mesospheric Cloud Imaging and Tomography Experiment Canceled 5 Environment Sensors Integrated Spaceflight Services LLC 2025-06-25 —
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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.