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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 →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 126 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Miniature Absolute Scalar Magnetometer for Resource-Constrained Solar System Body Exploration Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Johns Hopkins University 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Visible to SWIR Fast eAPDs for Panchromatic FTS Instrument Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS, LLC 2025-08-22 —
Diamond Scattering Detectors for Compton Telescopes Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 2025-08-22 —
Microfluidic Ion Analyzer for Astrobiological Studies Completed 2 Environment Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
Laboratory Investigation of Satellite Gas-Surface Interactions for Accurate Construction of Atmospheric Models Completed 1 Sensors and Instruments University of Colorado Boulder 2025-08-22 —
Autonomous Moisture Continuum Sensing Network Completed 4 Environment Sensors Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
Optimal spectrograph and wavefront control architectures for high-contrast exoplanet characterization Completed 3 Optical Components California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
Advancing the Technology of Monolithic CMOS detectors for their use as X-ray Imaging Spectrometers Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Smithsonian Institution 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
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) 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
CARBO: The Carbon Balance Observatory Completed 4 Distributed Aperture Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-08-22 —
Multispectral Organic Detection and Near-Infrared Exobiology Tool (HBR) Active — In Situ Instruments and Sensors Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. 2025-08-22 —
Digitally Enhanced Meta-surface Radar/Radiometer for Snow Remote Sensing Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Boise State University 2025-08-22 —
Merging Technologies to develop light weight, high throughput X-ray optics Completed 4 Mirror Systems — 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
CMOS Back-End Spectrometer Processors Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI) Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Driver ASIC environmental testing and performance optimization for space-based active mirrors Completed — Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
Simplified, Parallelized InSAR Scientific Computing Environment Completed 5 Public Cloud Supercomputers California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
The Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) Completed 3 Environment Sensors University of California-Berkeley 2025-08-22 —
Development and deployment of an “Autonomous Biogeochemical Instrument for In Situ Studies” (the ABISS) Completed — Sample Acquisition and Handling — 2025-08-22 —
PolCube CubeSat Polarimeter Mission (PolCube) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Langley Research Center 2025-08-22 —
New Observing Strategy - Live Demonstration of Vegetation Disturbance Virtual Field Campaign Completed 7 Collaborative Science and Engineering Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
An Intelligent Systems Approach to Measuring Surface Flow Velocities in River Channels Completed 5 Guidance and Targeting Algorithms United States Geological Survey 2025-08-22 —
CURIE: Cubesat Radio Interferometry Experiment Completed 5 Distributed Aperture University of California-Berkeley 2025-08-22 —
Piezo-Electric Micro Valve for Atmospheric Descent Sampling Completed 3 Environment Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
Phonon Recycling for Ultrasensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
Continued Development of a Soft Gamma-Ray Concentrator Completed 2 Optical Components University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 2025-08-22 —
Ka Band Highly Constrained Deployable Antenna for RaInCube Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2025-08-22 —
Deployable P and I band antenna TRL advancement for flight Completed — Structures and Antennas MMA Design, LLC 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Microlens Array/Pinhole Mask to Suppress Starlight for Direct Exoplanet Detection Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2025-08-22 —
Precise Landing on Titan Completed 2 Aerodynamic Decelerators — 2025-08-22 —
The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) (LEMS) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-Baltimore County 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Hierarchical Phased Array Antenna Focal Plane for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization and Sub-mm Observations Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Berkeley 2025-08-22 —
Next Generation UAV Based Spectral Systems for Environmental Monitoring Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2025-08-22 —
Advancing Nanomotion Sensor Technology to Provide Evidence for Active Life in Ocean Worlds Completed 3 Environment Sensors — 2025-08-22 —
Planar Metasurface Reconfigurable W-band Antenna for Beam Steering Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-08-22 —
Lunar Super Low-Frequency Atomic Seismometer Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
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 2025-08-22 —
Silicon Metasurfaces for Integrated Dual Polarized 1.9 THz Heterodyne Array Instruments Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves California Institute of Technology 2025-08-22 —
High Resolution Adjustable Mirror Control for X-ray Astronomy Completed 4 Mirror Systems — 2025-08-22 —
Building a Better ALD - use of Plasma Enhanced ALD to Construct Efficient Interference Filters for the FUV Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
Development of a Drift-bar CZT Calorimeter with Good Energy Resolution for Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes — 2025-08-22 —
Improving ground-level air quality prediction by integrating spatiotemporal new observation system datasets and numerical simulations Completed — Intelligent Data Understanding George Mason University 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.