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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 124 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Black Array of Broadband Absolute Radiometers for Imaging Earth Radiation Completed 6 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Driver ASIC environmental testing and performance optimization for space-based active mirrors Completed — Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies California Institute of Technology
Simplified, Parallelized InSAR Scientific Computing Environment Completed 5 Public Cloud Supercomputers California Institute of Technology
The Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) Completed 3 Environment Sensors University of California-Berkeley
Development and deployment of an “Autonomous Biogeochemical Instrument for In Situ Studies” (the ABISS) Completed — Sample Acquisition and Handling —
PolCube CubeSat Polarimeter Mission (PolCube) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center
New Observing Strategy - Live Demonstration of Vegetation Disturbance Virtual Field Campaign Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Goddard Space Flight Center
An Intelligent Systems Approach to Measuring Surface Flow Velocities in River Channels Completed 5 Guidance and Targeting Algorithms United States Geological Survey
CURIE: Cubesat Radio Interferometry Experiment Completed 5 Distributed Aperture University of California-Berkeley
Piezo-Electric Micro Valve for Atmospheric Descent Sampling Completed 3 Environment Sensors —
Phonon Recycling for Ultrasensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes —
Continued Development of a Soft Gamma-Ray Concentrator Completed 2 Optical Components University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
Ka Band Highly Constrained Deployable Antenna for RaInCube Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Deployable P and I band antenna TRL advancement for flight Completed — Structures and Antennas MMA Design, LLC
Framework for Mining and Analysis of Petabyte-size Time-series on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Completed 3 Collaborative Science and Engineering Ames Research Center
Microlens Array/Pinhole Mask to Suppress Starlight for Direct Exoplanet Detection Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Precise Landing on Titan Completed 2 Aerodynamic Decelerators —
The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) (LEMS) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-Baltimore County
HY-LaTiS: Evolving the functional data model through creation of a tool set for hyperspectral image analysis Completed 7 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Colorado Boulder
Hierarchical Phased Array Antenna Focal Plane for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization and Sub-mm Observations Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Berkeley
Next Generation UAV Based Spectral Systems for Environmental Monitoring Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Advancing Nanomotion Sensor Technology to Provide Evidence for Active Life in Ocean Worlds Completed 3 Environment Sensors —
Planar Metasurface Reconfigurable W-band Antenna for Beam Steering Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Super Low-Frequency Atomic Seismometer Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Laboratory Experiments to Evaluate the Role of Shear Alfvén wave Parametric Instabilities in the Origin and Evolution of the Solar Wind Completed 1 Lasers Space Science Institute
Silicon Metasurfaces for Integrated Dual Polarized 1.9 THz Heterodyne Array Instruments Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves California Institute of Technology
High Resolution Adjustable Mirror Control for X-ray Astronomy Completed 4 Mirror Systems —
Building a Better ALD - use of Plasma Enhanced ALD to Construct Efficient Interference Filters for the FUV Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes —
Development of a Drift-bar CZT Calorimeter with Good Energy Resolution for Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes —
Improving ground-level air quality prediction by integrating spatiotemporal new observation system datasets and numerical simulations Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding George Mason University
Silicon Based Local Oscillator Source Array at 1.9 THz Completed — Advanced Electronic Parts California Institute of Technology
Multi-Band Radiometric Imager Utilizing Uncooled Microbolometer Arrays with Piezo Backscan for Earth Observation Mission Applications Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Leonardo DRS
Micro Fabricated Optical Seismometer "FROSTY" Completed 2 Environment Sensors —
A Printed Circuitboard Analyzer for Characterizing the Charge and Mass of Martian Dust Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors —
Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) Completed — Engine Icing —
Front End Spectroscopy ASIC for Germanium Detectors Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes —
Exoplanet Spectroscopy Technologies Work Package (ExoSpec) Completed 3 Optical Components NASA Headquarters
Robust Deep Contrast Imaging with Self-Calibrating Coronagraph Systems Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Arizona
Development of Next-Generation Wiring Capability for Advanced X-Ray Microcalorimeters Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Characterizing Single-photon Sensing CMOS Image Sensors for NASA Missions Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Rochester Institute of Technology
Scalable Microshutter Systems for UV, Visible, and Infrared Spectroscopy Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters
NASA Contributions to LISA: UV LED-based Charge Management System Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Florida
Development of Three-Dimensional Hard X-Ray Photoelectric Polarimeter Assembly Using Additive Manufacturing Technology Active — In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Debris Detection and Characterization using an in-situ LIDAR Sensor Platform Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors The Aerospace Corporation
Characterizing the RF Performance of Lunar Crater Radio Telescope for 21 cm Cosmology Active — Observatories Jet Propulsion Laboratory
System-Level Segmented Telescope Design Completed — Structures and Antennas Lockheed Martin Inc.
Development of a Through Silicon Via -enabled HREXI Detector Module (HDM) (TSV) Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes —
Technology Maturation for Adjustable X-ray Mirrors Active — Observatories Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Development and testing of a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe for the detection of extremely small spatial structures in low earth orbit Active — Observatories Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
A Large Area Silicon Drift Detector for X-rays Active — Detectors and Focal Planes Naval Research Laboratory
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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.