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 32 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2O, CH4, and HSRL Airborne Lidar Observations (HALO) | Completed | 3 | Lasers | NASA Headquarters | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Next-generation feedhorn-coupled kinetic inductance detector arrays | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Development of an Ultra-Stable Mid-Infrared Detector Array for Space-Based Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Johns Hopkins University | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Next Generation Microshutter Arrays | Completed | 4 | Habitability and Environment | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Development of Adjustable X-ray Optics with 0.5 Arcsecond Resolution for the Lynx Mission Concept | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Smithsonian Institution | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Effective Human-Robot Teaming to Advance Aviation Manufacturing | Completed | 2 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2020-01-24 | — |
| FY17 GRC: Shape Memory Alloy Adaptive Cooling | Completed | 4 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Glenn Research Center | 2020-01-24 | — |
| Fabrication and Manufacturing of Coronagraph Masks for The High-Contrast Imaging Test beds (CORFAB) | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-03-12 | — |
| Tunable laser absorption spectrometer | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-03-12 | — |
| Demonstration of an Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) Process for Vertical Lift Vehicles | Completed | 4 | Tools and Methodologies for Vehicle and Concept Definition Activities | Langley Research Center | 2020-05-11 | — |
| Ultra-Stable Structures Development and Characterization Using Spatial Dynamic Metrology | Completed | 3 | Structures and Antennas | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Extension of the dE/dx-E Technique Using Silicon Detectors to below 1 MeV/nucleon | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | California Institute of Technology | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Integrating Advanced Wavefront Control and Image Processing for High Contrast Imaging | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | The Research Corporation Of The University Of Hawaii | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Development of thin-film polymer actuators for high-resolution X-ray optics | Completed | 1 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | — | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Development of a Photon Detection Module for the Detection of Cosmogenic Neutrinos | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Enabling imaging astrometry detection and mass measurement of Earth-like planets | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center | 2020-05-19 | — |
| Advanced Multiplexed TES Arrays | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Advanced Multiplexed Transition-Edge Sensor Microcalorimeter Arrays | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Superconducting Resonator Spectrometer for Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wave Astrophysics | Completed | 1 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Dual-Cylinder Laser Reference Cavities for LISA | Completed | 1 | Optical Components | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Development of HEROICs: High-Sensitivity, High-Dynamic Range Detector Systems for Ultraviolet Astronomy | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Magnetically-coupled microcalorimeter arrays for x-ray astrophysics with sub-eV spectral resolution and large format capability | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Optimization of CZT Detectors with Sub-mm Pixel Pitches | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Emission Line Astronomy - Coronagraphic Tunable Narrow Band Imaging and Integral Field Spectroscopy. | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Spectrometer On a Chip | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-05-21 | — |
| Terahertz heterodyne spectral imager of planets and comets | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology | 2020-06-17 | — |
| Ionic Liquid Propellants for Micro-propulsion | Completed | 2 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Tennessee Space Institute | 2020-07-30 | — |
| Demonstration of Pointing Stability to Enable Astrophysics with Rotating Synthetic Aperture Telescopes | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Quantum-limited Amplifiers for Large Array Readout of Superconducting Detectors | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Large format, high dynamic range UV detector using MCPs and Timepix4 readouts | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Continuing Development of Bragg Reflector Optics and Gratings for Polarimetry | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Development of sub-arcsecond x-ray telescope optics | Completed | 3 | Observatories | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Stacked Wafer-Bonded Gradient Index Silicon Optics with Integral Antireflection Treatment | Completed | 1 | Materials | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Advanced Filter Solutions for Multiband and Broadband Imaging | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Exoplanet Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared: Phase 2 | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| AstroPix: Developing Silicon Pixel Detectors for Gamma-ray and Cosmic-ray Astrophysics | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Advanced SiPM readout for the AMEGO CsI Calorimeter | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Naval Research Laboratory | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Microwave Multiplexing Readout Development | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Stanford University | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Highly multiplexed acoustic resonator detector arrays (Hi-MARs) for space applications | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Detector development for high spectral resolution observations of diffuse hot gas | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Stable, solar-blind ultraviolet III-nitride photocathode imagers with high quantum efficiency | Completed | 6 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Integrated Silicon Micromachined SIS-Heterodyne Array Instrument at 557 GHz | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Ultraviolet Imaging and Spectroscopic Instrumentation for Future NASA Astrophysics Missions | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | — | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Fast Timing ASIC for Germanium Strip Detectors | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Naval Research Laboratory | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Sensitive Mid and Far-IR Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for Space Astronomy | Completed | 1 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Development of a CdZnTe Imaging Calorimeter for Gamma-ray Astronomy | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Maryland-College Park | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Frequency-agile and high-power terahertz laser local oscillators | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Southern California | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Advanced silicon diffractive optics for cross-dispersed spectroscopy | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | The University of Texas at Austin | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Exoplanet Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
| Precision Imaging Technique to Enable Time-Domain Far-IR Astrophysics | Completed | 2 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | California Institute of Technology | 2020-10-16 | — |
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