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 128 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Format, High Efficiency, UV/Optical/NIR Photon Counting Detectors | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Modeling and Testing Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Astrophysics (KIDs) | Completed | — | Electronics | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Scaling of single-photon sensor arrays through monolithic semiconductor-superconductor integration | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Large-Format X-ray Zone Plates: Enabling Flight-like Calibrations for Future Missions | Completed | — | Optical Components | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Providing Enabling & Enhancing Technologies for a Demonstration Model of the Athena X-IFU | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-08-22 | — |
| COUSIN: A Study of Small-Scale Auroral Region Energy Deposition | Completed | — | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Iowa | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Next generation bolometric microwave SQUID multiplexer | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A low-order hardware implementation for sensing and control in exoplanet imaging | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Normal-incidence mirror for narrow-band X-ray imaging of circumgalactic medium | Completed | — | Optical Components | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| WindCube: A CubeSat Thermospheric Wind Instrument | Completed | — | Sensors and Instruments | National Center for Atmospheric Research | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Adaptive High-order Wavefront Control Algorithms for High-contrast Imaging on the Decadal Survey Testbed | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| X-Ray Speed-Reading: Integrated Readout Technology for Fast, Very Low-Noise, Megapixel X-Ray Imaging Detectors | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Stanford University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| HIRSL: a High-Resolution Spectrograph in Lyman-α (HIRSL) | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Boston University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Terahertz Correlation Receiver for the Detection of Water in Planet Forming Disks (Trex) | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A High-Performance Ultraviolet Photon Counting Detector for Strategic Astrophysics Missions | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Polymer actuators for high-resolution X-ray optics | Completed | — | Optical Components | Washington University in St Louis | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Aligning high-resolution X-ray telescope mirrors using adjustable-height spacers | Completed | — | Optical Components | University of Arizona | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Development of a 30 mK ultra-low temperature Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator with a continuous 700 mK intermediate stage for heat intercept (CADR) | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A prototype flight for the GRAMS project | Completed | — | Other Sensors and Instruments | Northeastern University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Demonstration of Advanced Wavefront Control for Segmented Aperture Telescopes | Active | — | Observatories | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Roman Coronagraph Instrument (Roman CGI) | Completed | 6 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Systems Technologies for Architecture Baseline (STABLE) | Active | — | Structures and Antennas | Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems | 2025-08-22 | — |
| 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 | 2025-08-22 | — |
| CMOS Integrated Comb Generator for Large Format MKID Arrays | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A Balloon-Borne Infrared Coronagraph and Spectropolarimeter for Magnetic Field Measurements of the Solar Corona | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Smithsonian Institution | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes (TechMAST) | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing | — | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Advanced Al mirrors with passivated LiF for environmentally stable 1-meter class UV space telescopes | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Advancing & Qualifying UV Space Technology & Instrumentation | Completed | — | Observatories | University of Iowa | 2025-08-22 | — |
| X-ray Micropore Optics Fabrication with Micro-3D Printing | Completed | — | Observatories | University of Miami | 2025-08-22 | — |
| 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 | 2025-08-22 | — |
| XSTAR: Spectral Modeling for the XRISM Era | Active | — | Modeling | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-08-22 | — |
| PICTURE-D: Planetary Imaging Coronagraph Testbed Using a Reusable Experiment for Debris Disks (PICTURE-D) | Active | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Second flight of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) | Completed | — | Field and Particle Detectors | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Development of a 511 keV Gamma-Ray Camera | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Washington University in St Louis | 2025-08-22 | — |
| The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter | Active | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| 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 | 2025-08-22 | — |
| X-ray Reflection Gratings: Key Developments for the Next Decade | Active | — | Observatories | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Assessing the Capabilities of Adjustable X-ray Mirrors with Thin-film Actuators | Completed | — | Optical Components | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes (TechMAST) | Active | — | Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design | Lockheed Martin Inc. | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Large-Scale Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite Mirrors for Cryogenic Applications | Active | — | Observatories | Outpost Technologies Corporation | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Demonstrating Large Low Noise Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Future FIR Space Missions | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Johns Hopkins University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Metamaterial Filters and Low-Mass Focusing Optics for Millimeter, Sub-millimeter and Terahertz Applications | Completed | — | Optical Components | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Technology maturation for a high-sensitivity and high-resolving power x-ray spectrometer | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Ultra-Low Noise Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers for Far-Infrared Astronomy | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Transition edge sensor arrays for high-energy X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | 2025-08-22 | — |
| NASA Contributions to LISA: Telescopes for Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatories | Completed | 4 | Structures and Antennas | — | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Starshade Petal Fabrication and Accuracy Demonstration at Full-Scale for the IR/O/UV Great Observatory | Completed | — | Observatories | Stanford University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Development of diffraction-limited Wolter x-ray telescope optics | Active | — | Observatories | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Miniature Photonic Filters, Spectrometers, and Nulling Interferometers for Astrophysics and Space Science | Completed | — | Optical Components | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Microwave SQUID readout technology development for future X-ray astrophysics missions | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
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