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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 124 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Advancing the TRL of a Compact, High Dynamic Range Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-08-22 —
New Scan Modes in Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers for Planetary Exploration Completed 2 Environment Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
Transition of CAPRi (Cloud-based Analytical framework for Precipitation Research) to NASA Earth Information System (EIS) Completed 6 Cyber Infrastructure Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
Multi-wavelength Ocean Profiling and Atmospheric Lidar Completed 6 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2025-08-22 —
Automated protocols for generating very high-resolution commercial validation products with NASA HEC resources Completed 4 V&V of Software systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
Seismic Orbital Laser VibrometEr (SOLVE) Completed 2 Lasers — 2025-08-22 —
Mahina Color Camera: Snapshot Multispectral Imaging for Lunar Applications Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Johns Hopkins University 2025-08-22 —
Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves University of Massachusetts-Amherst 2025-08-22 —
INFLAME LW channel diagnostic and rework Completed — Optical Components Science Systems and Applications, Inc. 2025-08-22 —
Generalizing Distributed Missions Design Using the Trade-space Analysis Tool for Constellations (TAT-C) and Machine Learning (ML) Completed 5 Data Reduction Hardware Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
NeMO-Net – The Neural Multi-Modal Observation & Training Network for Global Coral Reef Assessment Completed 5 Science Modeling Ames Research Center 2025-08-22 —
Compact Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Mission Concept Study (CTSIS) Completed 2 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder 2025-08-22 —
High-power terahertz lasers with excellent beam quality for local oscillator sources Completed 4 Lasers — 2025-08-22 —
An Ultra-Compact Imaging Spectrometer for the Lunar Surface: Enabling Volatile Mapping and Unraveling the Moon's Geologic History Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
XTRA: An eXTraterrestrial Regolith Analyzer for Lunar Soil Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Ames Research Center 2025-08-22 —
SpIRRL: Spectroscopic Infrared Reflectance LIDAR Completed — In Situ Resource Use University of Hawaii at Manoa 2025-08-22 —
Generative models to forecast community reorganization with climate change Completed 6 Science Modeling Duke University 2025-08-22 —
SWIRP: Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
µ-Spec: An Integrated Spectrometer for Terahertz Space Spectroscopy Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
THAI-SPICE: Testbed for High-Acuity Imaging – Stable Photometry and Image-Motion Compensation Experiment Completed — Mirror Systems Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Kinetics of H2O(010) - O2(v=1) Vibrational Energy Transfer at Low Temperatures. Completed 1 Detectors and Focal Planes SRI International 2025-08-22 —
Field Exploration and Life Detection Sampling for Planetary and Astrobiology Research (FELDSPAR) Completed — Sample Acquisition and Handling — 2025-08-22 —
Fiber-based, Trace-gas, Laser Transmitter Technology Development for Space Completed 4 Electronics NASA Headquarters 2025-08-22 —
Surrogate modeling for atmospheric chemistry and data assimilation Completed 3 Modeling University of Colorado Boulder 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Advanced Development of a Multi-Angle Stratospheric Aerosol Radiometer (MASTAR) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Science Systems and Applications, Inc. 2025-08-22 —
SUBSEA: Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog Completed — Surface Mobility — 2025-08-22 —
Advanced Spacecraft Technologies to Explore the Ocean Worlds for the Detection of Extant Life Completed 2 Surface Mobility — 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
High Resolution Adjustable Mirror Control for X-ray Astronomy Completed 4 Mirror Systems — 2025-08-22 —
Carbon Absolute Electrical Substitution Radiometers (CAESR) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-08-22 —
Fundamental Performance Improvement of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astrophysics Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
DEMETER: DEMonstrating the Emerging Technology for measuring the Earth's Radiation (DEMETER) Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center 2025-08-22 —
Integrated Receiver and Switch Technology (IRaST) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 2025-08-22 —
AMP: An Automated Metadata Pipeline (AMP) Completed 5 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence LINGUA LOGICA LLC 2025-08-22 —
A Science-Driven Performance Specification Framework for Space-Based Neutral Hydrogen Cosmology Experiments Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Brown University 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) IV Pathfinder Completed 5 Optical Components Langley Research Center 2025-08-22 —
Avalanche photodiodes for suprathermal and energetic ion detectors in future Heliophysics missions Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio 2025-08-22 —
Membrane Extraction for Space Applications Completed 3 Environment Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
Chrisp Compact VNIR/SWIR Imaging Spectrometer Development Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory 2025-08-22 —
Photonic Lantern Interferometric Receiver for Remote Sensing Applications Completed 4 Sensing and Perception University of Central Florida 2025-08-22 —
Miniaturized Imaging Spectrometer to Measure Vegetation Structure and Function - MiniSpec Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
High Temperature Diamond Electronics for Actuators and Sensors Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Simplified High Impact Energy Lander Design (SHIELD) Completed 3 Vehicle Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-08-22 —
Metasurfaces for Compact, Next-Generation Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Harvard University 2025-08-22 —
HREXI prototype for 4piXIO Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Harvard University 2025-08-22 —
Multi-Spectral, Low-Mass, High-Resolution, Planar Integrated Photonic Imagers Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of California-Davis 2025-08-22 —
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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.