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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 37 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
Digital Radio Prototype Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
STMD Laser Lifetest Program Space Gradiometer Completed 4 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
A Multi-Spacecraft Multi-Objective Interplanetary Global Trajectory Optimization Transcription Completed 1 Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Determination of Absolute Plate Spacing for the Fabry-Perot Subassembly of the Thermosphere Imager for Global Observations Completed 1 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Hyperspectral Single Pixel Image Sensor (HyperSPIS) Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
LabNotes: A Mobile App for Instrument Control and Data Collection Completed 4 Docking and Berthing Mechanisms and Fixtures Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Next Generation Multi-mode Remote Sensing Radar Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Space Applications for Ensemble Detection and Analysis (EDA) Completed 2 Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Deep Learning for Super-Resolution of Time Series Satellite Images Completed 2 Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF CRYOGENIC HYDROGEN RADIATION SHIELD FOR HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT Completed 2 Protection Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
W-band Solid State Transceiver for Cloud Radar (CRS) Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Multi-Channel Optical Digitizer for Earth Sciences Completed — Electronics Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Development of Strained-Layer Superlattice (SLS) IR Detector Camera Project Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Large-array Far-infrared Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Demonstration Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Single Crystal Silicon Mirrors for Spaceflight Completed 1 Mirror Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Goddard radio-frequency explorer Radio frequency Interference real time Display system (GRID) Completed — Spectrum Efficiency Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Onboard Blackbody Calibrator Component Development for IR Remote Sensing Instrumentation Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
A Reconfigurable Broadband Sensor Signal Processing Platform for Cross-Cutting Instruments (COMP-X) Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
Efficient Radiation Shielding Through Direct Metal Laser Sintering Completed 6 Protection Systems Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
A Micro-Cylindrical Ion Trap (µ-CIT) Micro-Mass Spectrometer Instrument System (µ-MSIS) for NASA Planetary Exploration Completed 2 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-09-28 —
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 2023-10-02 —
Heliospheric Hydrogen as a Probe of the Heliopause and Interstellar Magnetic Field Completed 5 Optical Components University of Arizona 2023-10-06 —
New Techniques for Fast Neutron Imaging and Spectroscopy Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-10-06 —
High Efficiency EUV Diffraction Gratings for Heliophysics Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
CuPID Cubesat Observatory Completed 5 Distributed Aperture Boston University 2023-10-06 —
Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors for CMB Polarimetry with the Inflation Probe Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes California Institute of Technology 2023-10-06 —
Nature of Interplanetary Low Energy Electrons and Positrons Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Delaware 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
Long Duration Daytime Thermospheric Wind Observation Using HIWIND Completed 4 Environment Sensors University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2023-10-06 —
AZURE: Auroral Zone Upwelling Release Experiment Completed 4 Optical Components Clemson University 2023-10-06 —
Fabrication of Sparse Readout Detectors for X-ray Astronomy Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 2023-10-06 —
UltraViolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder Completed 3 Optical Components Naval Research Laboratory 2023-10-06 —
High Performance Sealed Tube Cross Strip Photon Counting Sensors for UV-Vis Astrophysics Instruments Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes — 2023-10-06 —
Development of a Critical Angle Transmission Grating Spectrometer Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023-10-06 —
Development of the Alaska Cubesat Auroral Plasma Spectrometer (ACAPS) Completed 2 Field and Particle Detectors University of Alaska Fairbanks 2023-10-06 —
Dione: A pathfinder mission for understanding the Ionosphere-Thermosphere responses to magnetospheric forcing Completed 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2023-10-06 —
End-to-End Laboratory Validation of a Neutral Wind Detector Completed 5 Sensors and Instruments Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
X-ray TKID Array Development for Astrophysics Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of California-Santa Barbara 2023-10-06 —
The Beam-Plasma Interactions Experiment Completed — Solar Thermal Propulsion Los Alamos National Security, LLC 2023-10-06 —
Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) Completed 4 Distributed Aperture Marshall Space Flight Center 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
Development of Digital Micromirror Devices for Far-UV Applications Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes Rochester Institute of Technology 2023-10-06 —
High Angular Resolution Low Energy Neutral Imager (LENI) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory 2023-10-06 —
Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter: CLASP Re-flight proposal Completed 4 Optical Components Marshall Space Flight Center 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
Development and Flight Qualification of a Low Cost Distributed Irradiance Monitoring System (DIMS) Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2023-10-06 —
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 2023-10-06 —
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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)".
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Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.