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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 126 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Roman Coronagraph Instrument (Roman CGI) Completed 6 Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Systems Technologies for Architecture Baseline (STABLE) Active — Structures and Antennas Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems
CANDLE: Calibration using an Artificial star with NIST-traceable Distribution of Luminous Energy. An Engineering Demonstration Unit for Astrophysics (CANDLE) Active — Detectors and Focal Planes National Institute of Standards and Technology
CMOS Integrated Comb Generator for Large Format MKID Arrays Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Balloon-Borne Infrared Coronagraph and Spectropolarimeter for Magnetic Field Measurements of the Solar Corona Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Smithsonian Institution
Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes (TechMAST) Completed 4 Manufacturing —
Advanced Al mirrors with passivated LiF for environmentally stable 1-meter class UV space telescopes Completed 3 Mirror Systems NASA Headquarters
Advancing & Qualifying UV Space Technology & Instrumentation Completed — Observatories University of Iowa
X-ray Micropore Optics Fabrication with Micro-3D Printing Completed — Observatories University of Miami
Enabling decadal science with a combined, parallelized approach to microcalorimeter calibration in the soft x-ray waveband Active — In Situ Instruments and Sensors Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
XSTAR: Spectral Modeling for the XRISM Era Active — Modeling Goddard Space Flight Center
PICTURE-D: Planetary Imaging Coronagraph Testbed Using a Reusable Experiment for Debris Disks (PICTURE-D) Active — Detectors and Focal Planes University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Second flight of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) Completed — Field and Particle Detectors University of California-Berkeley
Development of a 511 keV Gamma-Ray Camera Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Washington University in St Louis
The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter Active — Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimized Soft X-ray Sensors for Strategic X-ray Astrophysics Missions: Achieving TRL 5 Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
X-ray Reflection Gratings: Key Developments for the Next Decade Active — Observatories Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Assessing the Capabilities of Adjustable X-ray Mirrors with Thin-film Actuators Completed — Optical Components NASA Headquarters
Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes (TechMAST) Active — Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design Lockheed Martin Inc.
Large-Scale Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite Mirrors for Cryogenic Applications Active — Observatories Outpost Technologies Corporation
Demonstrating Large Low Noise Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Future FIR Space Missions Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Johns Hopkins University
Metamaterial Filters and Low-Mass Focusing Optics for Millimeter, Sub-millimeter and Terahertz Applications Completed — Optical Components Arizona State University-Tempe
Technology maturation for a high-sensitivity and high-resolving power x-ray spectrometer Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ultra-Low Noise Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers for Far-Infrared Astronomy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
Transition edge sensor arrays for high-energy X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
NASA Contributions to LISA: Telescopes for Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatories Completed 4 Structures and Antennas —
Starshade Petal Fabrication and Accuracy Demonstration at Full-Scale for the IR/O/UV Great Observatory Completed — Observatories Stanford University
Development of diffraction-limited Wolter x-ray telescope optics Active — Observatories Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miniature Photonic Filters, Spectrometers, and Nulling Interferometers for Astrophysics and Space Science Completed — Optical Components University of Maryland-College Park
Microwave SQUID readout technology development for future X-ray astrophysics missions Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ultra-Stable Telescope Research and Analysis -Technology Maturation (ULTRA-TM) Completed 2 Mirror Systems Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
EVEX2: Study of equatorial vortex and spread-F development Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors —
Chip-scale Astrocomb for High Precision Spectrograph Calibration Completed — Observatories Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Hybrid Quantum Capacitance- Kinetic Inductance far-Infrared Detector Active — Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Radiation Damage Effects and Charge Trapping Correction Techniques in the COSI Germanium Detectors Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-San Diego
The Landolt Mission Active — Lasers George Mason University
Highly scalable transition-edge sensor arrays for optical to near-infrared astronomy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dark hole maintenance with the Self Coherent Camera Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Arizona
Demonstrating a megapixel array of UV superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors National Institute of Standards and Technology
Photonic High-Resolution Broadband Spectrographs for Space-Based Astrophysics Missions Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
µ-Spec Integrated Spectrometers for Far-Infrared Spectroscopy in Space Completed — Optical Components NASA Headquarters
CubIXSS: The CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer Completed — Sensors and Instruments Southwest Research Institute - Boulder
Scalable Microshutter Systems for Multi-object Spectroscopy Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Event-Driven and Rapid-Readout Hybrid CMOS Detectors for X-ray Astronomy Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Dual-purpose coronagraph masks for enabling high-contrast imaging with an IR/O/UV flagship mission Completed 3 Optical Components Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Classes and Technological Advances in Orbit Determination and Clock Precision to Enable Space-Based Imaging of Supermassive Black Holes Completed — Timekeeping and Time Distribution Continuum Space Systems, Inc.
Scanning Coronal and Heliospheric Imager Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Johns Hopkins University
Approaching the Fano Limit with UV, Optical, and Near-Infrared MKIDs Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Office of Research
Laboratory Demonstrations of High Contrast with Black Silicon Coronagraph Masks Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Quantum-cascade local oscillators beyond 5 THz Completed — Lasers University of California-Los Angeles
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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.