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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 35 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Toward Fast, Low-Noise, Radiation-Tolerant X-ray Imaging Arrays for Lynx: Raising Technology Readiness Further Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heliospheric Hydrogen as a Probe of the Heliopause and Interstellar Magnetic Field Completed 5 Optical Components University of Arizona
New Techniques for Fast Neutron Imaging and Spectroscopy Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
High Efficiency EUV Diffraction Gratings for Heliophysics Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center
Highly Vibrationally Excited OH in the Terrestrial Mesosphere: Key Rate Constants for OH(v = 9, 8) Removal by Atomic and Molecular Oxygen Required for TIMED/SABER Observations Completed 3 Optical Components SRI International
CuPID Cubesat Observatory Completed 5 Distributed Aperture Boston University
Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors for CMB Polarimetry with the Inflation Probe Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology
Nature of Interplanetary Low Energy Electrons and Positrons Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Delaware
Calibration of Density Diagnostics for Solar Physics Using an Electron Beam Ion Trap Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Columbia University in the City of New York
Long Duration Daytime Thermospheric Wind Observation Using HIWIND Completed 4 Environment Sensors University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
AZURE: Auroral Zone Upwelling Release Experiment Completed 4 Optical Components Clemson University
Fabrication of Sparse Readout Detectors for X-ray Astronomy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
UltraViolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder Completed 3 Optical Components Naval Research Laboratory
High Performance Sealed Tube Cross Strip Photon Counting Sensors for UV-Vis Astrophysics Instruments Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes —
Development of a Critical Angle Transmission Grating Spectrometer Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Development of the Alaska Cubesat Auroral Plasma Spectrometer (ACAPS) Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dione: A pathfinder mission for understanding the Ionosphere-Thermosphere responses to magnetospheric forcing Completed 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
End-to-End Laboratory Validation of a Neutral Wind Detector Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Fast, Multi-spectral, Polarization-Sensitive IR Detectors for Solar Astronomy from 5 to 100 Microns Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Notre Dame
CuSPP Plus - An Enhancement to the Cubesat Mission to Study Solar Particles over the Earth's Poles Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
X-ray TKID Array Development for Astrophysics Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Santa Barbara
The Beam-Plasma Interactions Experiment Completed — Solar Thermal Propulsion Los Alamos National Security, LLC
Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) Completed 4 Distributed Aperture Marshall Space Flight Center
High-Speed, Low-Noise, Radiation-Tolerant CCD Image Sensors for Strategic High-Energy Astrophysics Missions Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Development of Digital Micromirror Devices for Far-UV Applications Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Rochester Institute of Technology
High Angular Resolution Low Energy Neutral Imager (LENI) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory
Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter: CLASP Re-flight proposal Completed 4 Optical Components Marshall Space Flight Center
Transport, Chemistry, and Energetics of Water in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere and Implications for Polar Mesospheric Cloud Occurrence Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, LLC
Development and Flight Qualification of a Low Cost Distributed Irradiance Monitoring System (DIMS) Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
BIFOCAL: A Next-Generation Electron Instrument for Solar Wind Monitoring and High Phase Space Resolution Measurements Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Iowa
Dione: A pathfinder mission for understanding the Ionosphere-Thermosphere responses to magnetospheric forcing Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Fully-polarimetric Millimeter-wave Spectrometers for Measurement of Earth's Magnetic Field Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments California Institute of Technology
A Test Stand to Characterize and Contribute to the Development of DEPFET X-ray Detectors Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics-2 (TRICE-2) Completed 5 Optical Components University of Iowa
Development of a Sodium Lidar for Spaceborne Missions Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo (WINDY) Completed 3 Optical Components Cornell University
Novel Hybrid CMOS X-ray Detector Developments for Future Large Area and High Resolution X-ray Astronomy Missions Completed 3 Mirror Systems Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
The High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) Reflight Completed 5 Optical Components Marshall Space Flight Center
Preparing the next iteration of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) Completed 5 Optical Components University of California-Berkeley
VEry high Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (VERIS): a pathfinder for high resolution EUV spectroscopic observations of the solar atmosphere Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Naval Research Laboratory
COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) - CSR Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
TOMEX Plus: Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus Completed 4 Optical Components The Aerospace Corporation
In-Situ Measurements of Neutral and Plasma Dynamics Associated with Earth's Cusp-Region Thermospheric Mass Density Anomaly Completed 7 Field and Particle Detectors University of Alaska Fairbanks
VISIONS-2: Quantifying ion outflow in the cusp Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
Threshold raw retrieved contrast in coronagraphs is limited by internal polarization Completed 3 Mirror Systems —
High Resolution Plasmaphere Observatory Development Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio
Small UV imager for Heliophysics science investigations Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments University of California-Berkeley
Development of Self-calibrating Science Grade Magnetometer System for Cubesat Platforms Completed 1 Sensors and Instruments Goddard Space Flight Center
Electrically pumped mid-IR optical frequency combs for dual frequency spectroscopy Completed 3 Environment Sensors California Institute of Technology
Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration Completed 4 Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio
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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.