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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 123 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
MARLI: MARs LIdar for global climate measurements from orbit Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of an Interferometric Phased Array Trigger for Balloon-Borne Detection of the Highest Energy Cosmic Particles Completed Detectors and Focal Planes University of Chicago
On-Demand Geospatial Spectroscopy Processing Environment on the Cloud (GeoSPEC) Completed 6 Modeling University of Wisconsin-Madison
Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters with Comprehensive Frequency Coverage and Integrated Readout for Future CMB Missions Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Ames Life Sciences Data Archive (ALSDA) Active 8 Collaborative Science and Engineering Ames Research Center
Development of High Resolution X-ray Telescope Optics Completed 3 Distributed Aperture Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cooperative Exploration With Under-actuated Autonomous Vehicles in Hazardous Environments Completed Below-Surface Mobility
Snow and Water: Imaging Spectroscopy for coasts and snow cover (SWIS) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Lunar Raman Deep-Ultraviolet Visible Spectrograph (LR-DUV-VIS) Completed In Situ Instruments and Sensors
ASHI - A Light-Weight All Sky Imager for Future NASA Heliospheric Missions Completed 7 Lasers University of California-San Diego
Large-scale Polarimeter Array with Integrated Tunnel Junction Cooling Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes
Planetary Polarization Nephelometer Completed 3 Environment Sensors
NMR Detection of Extant Life Completed Sample Acquisition and Handling
Correcting and coating thin walled X-ray Optics via a combination of controlled film deposition and magnetic smart materials Completed 1 Mirror Systems Northwestern University
Addressing key challenges in space gravitational wave astronomy Completed 3 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Montana State University - Bozeman
Planar Silicon Metamaterial Lenslet Arrays for Spaceborne Millimeter-wavelength Imaging Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves
Kinetic Inductance Parametric Up-converter Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Plumbing Europa: A magnetotelluric sounder to characterize water layers and habitability within the ice shell of an ocean world Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes
Photon-Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the Origins Space Telescope Completed Detectors and Focal Planes Associated Universities, Inc.
Miniature Photonic Spectrometers and Filters for Astrophysics and Space Science Completed Detectors and Focal Planes University of Maryland-College Park
Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space (CIRiS) Completed 9 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Software workflows and tools for integrating remote sensing and organismal occurrence data streams to assess and monitor biodiversity change Completed 6 Environment Sensors Yale University
QGG Tech Demo Completed Field and Particle Detectors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Multi-Instrument Radiative Transfer and Retrieval Framework Completed 4 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards California Institute of Technology
C-REX-2 Addendum: ERPA-Bobs Adding multipoint electron temperature measurements to the CREX-2 mission Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Dartmouth College
A 1.5k x 1.5k class photon counting HgCdTe linear avalanche photo-diode array for low background space astronomy in the 1 – 5 micron infrared. Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes
Novel Hybrid CMOS X-ray Detector Developments for Future Large Area and High Resolution X-ray Astronomy Missions Completed 4 Mirror Systems
A Simplified Martian Acoustic Anemometer Completed 3 Environment Sensors
Causal And Reinforcement Learning (CARL) for Concepts for Ocean Worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) (CARL) Completed Situational and Self-Awareness Technologies Lockheed Martin Inc.
Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) to Map Three-Dimensional Vegetation Structure and Surface Topography Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Miniature Absolute Scalar Magnetometer for Resource-Constrained Solar System Body Exploration Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Johns Hopkins University
Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometer Receiver Development and Demonstration for Direct Measurement of Terrestrial Snow and Ice Accumulation Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Visible to SWIR Fast eAPDs for Panchromatic FTS Instrument Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS, LLC
Diamond Scattering Detectors for Compton Telescopes Completed Detectors and Focal Planes University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
Microfluidic Ion Analyzer for Astrobiological Studies Completed 2 Environment Sensors
Laboratory Investigation of Satellite Gas-Surface Interactions for Accurate Construction of Atmospheric Models Completed 1 Sensors and Instruments University of Colorado Boulder
Autonomous Moisture Continuum Sensing Network Completed 4 Environment Sensors Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimal spectrograph and wavefront control architectures for high-contrast exoplanet characterization Completed 3 Optical Components California Institute of Technology
Advancing the Technology of Monolithic CMOS detectors for their use as X-ray Imaging Spectrometers Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Smithsonian Institution
Climate risks in the water sector: Advancing the readiness of emerging technologies in climate downscaling and hydrologic modeling. Completed 6 Human-System Performance Modeling University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ultra-low Sample Volume Capillary Absorption Spectrometer for Lunar Volatiles and Water Isotope Analysis (CAS) Active In Situ Instruments and Sensors Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
SpaceCubeX: On-board processing for Distributed Measurement and Multi-Satellite Missions Completed 4 High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
CARBO: The Carbon Balance Observatory Completed 4 Distributed Aperture Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Multispectral Organic Detection and Near-Infrared Exobiology Tool (HBR) Active In Situ Instruments and Sensors Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
Digitally Enhanced Meta-surface Radar/Radiometer for Snow Remote Sensing Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Boise State University
Merging Technologies to develop light weight, high throughput X-ray optics Completed 4 Mirror Systems
MLSCube – A Microwave Limb Sounder for continuity of stratospheric observations in a 6U-CubeSat form factor Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
CMOS Back-End Spectrometer Processors Completed Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves California Institute of Technology
Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI) Active Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors
Computational Technologies: "An Assessment of Hybrid Quantum Annealing Approaches for Inferring and Assimilating Satellite Surface Flux Data into Global Land Surface Models." Completed 7 Quantum Computer University of Maryland-Baltimore County
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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.