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 38 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dione: A pathfinder mission for understanding the Ionosphere-Thermosphere responses to magnetospheric forcing | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Fully-polarimetric Millimeter-wave Spectrometers for Measurement of Earth's Magnetic Field | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | California Institute of Technology | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics-2 (TRICE-2) | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | University of Iowa | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of a Sodium Lidar for Spaceborne Missions | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo (WINDY) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Cornell University | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| The High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) Reflight | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Preparing the next iteration of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | University of California-Berkeley | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) - CSR | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| TOMEX Plus: Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | The Aerospace Corporation | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| VISIONS-2: Quantifying ion outflow in the cusp | Completed | 5 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Threshold raw retrieved contrast in coronagraphs is limited by internal polarization | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | — | 2023-10-06 | — |
| High Resolution Plasmaphere Observatory Development | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Small UV imager for Heliophysics science investigations | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | University of California-Berkeley | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of Self-calibrating Science Grade Magnetometer System for Cubesat Platforms | Completed | 1 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Electrically pumped mid-IR optical frequency combs for dual frequency spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration | Completed | 4 | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of low power FPGA-based readout electronics for superconducting detector arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Low Voltage, Ultra-Compact Plasma Spectrometer: Phase 2 | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | West Virginia University Research Corporation | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Linear Wavefront Control for High Contrast Imaging | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | University of Arizona | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Advanced Net Flux Radiometer Focal Plane Assembly for Ice Giants | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| First System-level demonstration of high-contrast for future segmented space telescopes | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Detectors and Readouts for CMB polarimetry in PICO | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2023-10-06 | — |
| EUV Photon Sieves for Milli-Arcsecond Imaging of the Solar Corona | Completed | 3 | Distributed Aperture | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Quantum Dot-based Miniaturized Multispectral Imager for Auroral Studies | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Electron-beam Generated Plasma to Enhance Performance of Protected Aluminum Mirrors for Large Space Telescopes | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Cusp upwelling and heating due to small-scale electric field fluctuations | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Clemson University | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Broad-band EUV multilayer coatings for high-resolution spectroscopy near 30 nm | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Reflective X-Ray Optics LLC | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on a Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP) | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of a new Research Quality, Low-Cost Inductive Magnetometer for Heliophysics Missions | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation | Completed | 4 | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of an Ultra-Stable Mid-Infrared Detector Array for Space-Based Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Johns Hopkins University | 2023-10-06 | — |
| New techniques for Fast Neutron Imaging and Spectroscopy | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| 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 | 2023-10-06 | — |
| THOR (Thermal High-voltage Ocean-penetrator Research platform) (THOR) | Completed | 5 | Below-Surface Mobility | Stone Aerospace, Inc. | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Vector Interferometry Space Technology using AERO (VISTA) (VISTA) | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development of a COmpact Rapid Electron (CORE) Instrument (CORE) | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| MICRO - A Magnetograph using Interfermetric and Computational Imaging for Remote Observations (MICRO) | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Lockheed Martin Inc. | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) (SPORT) | Completed | 5 | Radiation-Hardened ASIC Technologies | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations (LAMP) (LAMP) | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2023-10-06 | — |
| Development and Characterization of the Timepix X-ray Sensor Assembly (TXSA) (TXSA) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of California-Berkeley | 2023-10-06 | — |
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