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 36 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development of low power FPGA-based readout electronics for superconducting detector arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Arizona State University-Tempe |
| Development of a new time of flight particle telescope for ion mass composition of solar energetic particles | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | The Aerospace Corporation |
| Low Voltage, Ultra-Compact Plasma Spectrometer: Phase 2 | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | West Virginia University Research Corporation |
| Developing Graphene Foil Technology for Instruments Targeting Low-Energy Ring Current Populations at Earth | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio |
| Dual Time-Of-Flight-Energy for the Advanced Mass and Ionic Charge Composition Experiment (AMICCE) | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio |
| Laboratory investigation of the role of energetic electron beams in wave generation in the solar corona and in the heliosphere | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Space Science Institute |
| Development and Testing an Energetic Charged Particle Prototype Instrument with a Novel Synthetic Diamond Cherenkov Radiator | Completed | 2 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus |
| Linear Wavefront Control for High Contrast Imaging | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | University of Arizona |
| Advanced Net Flux Radiometer Focal Plane Assembly for Ice Giants | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| First System-level demonstration of high-contrast for future segmented space telescopes | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
| Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors and Readouts for CMB polarimetry in PICO | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology |
| EUV Photon Sieves for Milli-Arcsecond Imaging of the Solar Corona | Completed | 3 | Distributed Aperture | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Quantum Dot-based Miniaturized Multispectral Imager for Auroral Studies | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Electron-beam Generated Plasma to Enhance Performance of Protected Aluminum Mirrors for Large Space Telescopes | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Cusp upwelling and heating due to small-scale electric field fluctuations | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Clemson University |
| Broad-band EUV multilayer coatings for high-resolution spectroscopy near 30 nm | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Reflective X-Ray Optics LLC |
| Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on a Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP) | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology |
| Development of a new Research Quality, Low-Cost Inductive Magnetometer for Heliophysics Missions | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation | Completed | 4 | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Development of an Ultra-Stable Mid-Infrared Detector Array for Space-Based Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Johns Hopkins University |
| New techniques for Fast Neutron Imaging and Spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| The Simplest Magnetograph – a novel alternative to the standard filter based magnetograph | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
| THOR (Thermal High-voltage Ocean-penetrator Research platform) (THOR) | Completed | 5 | Below-Surface Mobility | Stone Aerospace, Inc. |
| Vector Interferometry Space Technology using AERO (VISTA) (VISTA) | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Development of a COmpact Rapid Electron (CORE) Instrument (CORE) | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| MICRO - A Magnetograph using Interfermetric and Computational Imaging for Remote Observations (MICRO) | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Lockheed Martin Inc. |
| Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) (SPORT) | Completed | 5 | Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations (LAMP) (LAMP) | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Development and Characterization of the Timepix X-ray Sensor Assembly (TXSA) (TXSA) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of California-Berkeley |
| Development of High-Resolution Far-Infrared Array Receivers | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology |
| Scalable micro-shutter systems for UV, visible, and infrared spectroscopy. | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Super Lyot ExoEarth Coronagraph (SLEEC) | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology |
| CHIMERA: A hybrid search coil and fluxgate magnetometer for small spacecraft missions | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | University of Iowa |
| Laboratory Demonstration of High Contrast Using PIAACMC on a Segmented Aperture | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Ames Research Center |
| FY18-C2 GRC: Multifunctional Bionic ALM for Isothermal Propulsion | Completed | 2 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Glenn Research Center |
| Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer for Planetary Dynamics | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Maryland-College Park |
| Laser Metrology Edge Sensor Concept Study for LUVOIR | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Electrostatic Tube Dust Detector for Moon and Mars | Completed | — | Environment Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Thermal Micro-Extraction Laboratory for sample extraction for missions to planets, satellites, and primitive bodies | Completed | 1 | Sample Acquisition and Handling | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| ACE Lidar Optical Data Simulation Using Ground Based Multi-wavelength Lidar and the GEOS-5 Model | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Utilization of Metal Additive Manufacturing for Sounding Rocket Flight Structures | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing Processes | Wallops Flight Facility |
| Reliability of Brazed Joints at Elevated Temperatures | Completed | — | Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Mirrorlette Arrays | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Advanced Range and Data Architecture Phase II (ARDA) | Completed | 5 | Test, Operations, and Systems Safety | Wallops Flight Facility |
| New FY17 Virtual Flight Instrument Model: Mentor Graphics System Vision VHDL-AMS Modeling Tool | Completed | 4 | Thermal Control Analysis | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| In-house Low Power Flight Computer for Cubesats | Completed | 3 | High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Low Cost APS Star Tracker for Suborbital Projects | Completed | 3 | Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Lightweight, cryogenic telescope fabricated from composite-material housing and a single-crystal-silicon (SCS) primary mirror | Completed | — | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Super-Resolution for Nighttime Lights | Completed | 5 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center |
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