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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 122 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Onboard Processing and Retasking Flight Experiment Onboard Spaceborne Computing 2 (SBC-2) Payload on the International Space Station (ISS) Completed 6 Edge Computing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kinetics of H2O(010) - O2(v=1) Vibrational Energy Transfer at Low Temperatures. Completed 1 Detectors and Focal Planes SRI International
Field Exploration and Life Detection Sampling for Planetary and Astrobiology Research (FELDSPAR) Completed Sample Acquisition and Handling
Fiber-based, Trace-gas, Laser Transmitter Technology Development for Space Completed 4 Electronics NASA Headquarters
Surrogate modeling for atmospheric chemistry and data assimilation Completed 3 Modeling University of Colorado Boulder
Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers for high-resolving-power emission-line characterization from orbital and remote missions. Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Arizona
Advanced Development of a Multi-Angle Stratospheric Aerosol Radiometer (MASTAR) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
SUBSEA: Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog Completed Surface Mobility
Advanced Spacecraft Technologies to Explore the Ocean Worlds for the Detection of Extant Life Completed 2 Surface Mobility
A hosted analytic collaborative framework for global river water quantity and quality from SWOT, Landsat, and Sentinel-2 Completed 6 Modeling University of Massachusetts-Boston
High Resolution Adjustable Mirror Control for X-ray Astronomy Completed 4 Mirror Systems
Carbon Absolute Electrical Substitution Radiometers (CAESR) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Fundamental Performance Improvement of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astrophysics Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
DEMETER: DEMonstrating the Emerging Technology for measuring the Earth's Radiation (DEMETER) Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center
Integrated Receiver and Switch Technology (IRaST) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
AMP: An Automated Metadata Pipeline (AMP) Completed 5 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence LINGUA LOGICA LLC
A Science-Driven Performance Specification Framework for Space-Based Neutral Hydrogen Cosmology Experiments Completed Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Brown University
JAWS: Justified AWS-like data through workflow enhancements that ease access and add scientific value Completed 6 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle University of California-Irvine
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) IV Pathfinder Completed 5 Optical Components Langley Research Center
Avalanche photodiodes for suprathermal and energetic ion detectors in future Heliophysics missions Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio
Membrane Extraction for Space Applications Completed 3 Environment Sensors
Chrisp Compact VNIR/SWIR Imaging Spectrometer Development Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Photonic Lantern Interferometric Receiver for Remote Sensing Applications Completed 4 Sensing and Perception University of Central Florida
Miniaturized Imaging Spectrometer to Measure Vegetation Structure and Function - MiniSpec Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
High Temperature Diamond Electronics for Actuators and Sensors Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Low-Loss, Low-Noise, Crystalline and Amorphous Silicon Dielectrics for Superconducting Microstriplines and Kinetic Inductance Detector Capacitors Completed Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology
Simplified High Impact Energy Lander Design (SHIELD) Completed 3 Vehicle Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Metasurfaces for Compact, Next-Generation Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Harvard University
HREXI prototype for 4piXIO Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Harvard University
Multi-Spectral, Low-Mass, High-Resolution, Planar Integrated Photonic Imagers Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of California-Davis
Solar Cycle Studies for the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer CubeSat Missions (MinXSS) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Colorado Boulder
Properties of kinetic magnetic reconnection. Completed 1 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Wisconsin-Madison
GNSS Reflections Multistatic Radar for Wetland Dynamics (GENESIS) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Coupled Statistics-Physics Guided Learning to Harness Heterogeneous Earth Data at Large Scales Completed 5 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing University of Maryland-College Park
UV LED-based Charge Management System for the LISA Gravitational Reference Sensor Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Miniature Lightweight X-ray Optics for Solar System Exploration Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes
"Compact Color Biofinder" for fast, non-contact detection of bio-markers, biomolecules and polyaromatic hydrocarbons in Ocean Worlds (CoCoBi) Completed 2 Environment Sensors
ARADS: Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies Completed Sample Acquisition and Handling
Spectral data discovery, access and analysis through EcoSIS toolkits Completed 5 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards University of Wisconsin-Madison
Water Isotope Tunable Laser Spectrometer Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hot Operating Temperature Lithium combustion IN situ Energy and Power System (HOTLINE Power System) Completed 4 Environment Sensors Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
DEFINING ROVER SCIENCE PROTOCOLS FOR ROBOTIC SAMPLE RETURN Completed Surface Mobility
Separated Thinned Array for Sensing of Ice Sheets (STASIS) Completed 2 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Tomographic Hydrogen Emission Observatory (THEO): A CubeSat Mission to Investigate Earth's Extended Geocorona (THEO) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stratospheric Water Inventory, Tomography of Convective Hydration (SWITCH) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Revelio: An autonomous high dynamic range camera for polar science and exploration Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Triple-Pulsed 2-Micron Direct Detection Airborne Lidar for Simultaneous and Independent CO2 and H2O Column Measurement Novel Lidar Technologies and Techniques with Path to Space Completed 6 Lasers NASA Headquarters
Computer Aided Discovery and Algorithmic Synthesis for Spatio-Temporal Phenomena in InSAR Completed 5 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advancing the Radio Frequency Payload for a 3-D Lightning Geolocation Capability with a Constellation of CubeSats Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
Advanced Pheno-climatic Information System Completed 4 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle United States Geological Survey
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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.