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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 →

21,053 projects harvested so far — page 383 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
ACSEPT: A Compact Solar Energetic Particle Telescope (ACSEPT) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Boston University
UAS thermal infrared spectroscopy will improve real time evaluation of hazards and environmental impacts of wildfires Active 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors The University of Texas at Austin
Towards dynamic configuration for a cloud evolution targeting radar system Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center
Integration of Observations and Models into Machine Learning for Coastal Water Quality Completed 5 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing NASA Headquarters
Digital Twin Infrastructure Model for Agricultural Applications Completed 3 Modeling NASA Headquarters
TRL-6 Cross-Cutting Water Vapor and Methane DIAL Transmitter Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center
AURORA (Advanced Ultra-high Resolution Optical Radio frequency) Pathfinder (AURORA) Active 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
Concurrent Artificially-intelligent Spectrometry and Adaptive Lidar System (CASALS) (CASALS) Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
SOA development for Cs based quantum applications - To reduce the power requirement of lasers in the QGG system Completed 2 Lasers Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Development of the Suprathermal Particle and Relativistic Electron Magnetic Spectrometer (SuPREMeS) Active In Situ Instruments and Sensors Johns Hopkins University
Optics for Compact Two-dimensional Energetic Atom (OCTEA) Active Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors
The Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer for Space (Space-CHPS): Advancing Spaceborne Prism-based Imaging Spectroscopy of the Earth (Space-CHPS) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems Inc.
Lower Hybrid Drift Waves and Associated Electron Heating during Guide Field Reconnection Completed Field and Particle Detectors Princeton University
Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) (HyTI) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Hawaii at Manoa
Improved Radiometric calibration of land Imaging Systems (IRIS) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Raytheon Company
High-Frequency Magnetic Loop for Heliophysics Exploration (HFLoop) Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors University of California-Los Angeles
Pixels for Public Health: Analytic Collaborative Framework to Enhance Coastal Resiliency of Vulnerable Populations in Hampton Roads, Virginia Completed 4 Simulation Old Dominion University Research Foundation
STV Architecture Study Completed Science Modeling Goddard Space Flight Center
Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to monitor Wildfire Spread for Responsive Control Completed 4 Situational and Self-Awareness Technologies Ames Research Center
Ultra-compact Machine-Learning-driven platform for room temperature mid-wave infrared remote sensing Active 2 Sensing and Perception The University of Texas at Austin
MICA: Microfluidic Icy-World Chemistry Analyzer Active 4 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Ames Research Center
Metalens Origami Deployable Lidar Telescope (MODeL) Completed 2 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters
Towards a NU-WRF based Mega Wildfire Digital Twin: Smoke Transport Impact Scenarios on Air Quality, Cardiopulmonary Disease and Regional Deforestation Completed 5 Mission Success Technologies University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Continuing the evolution of CASALS Completed 3 Lasers Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of a Novel Magnetic Nano-Transmitter Plasma Wave Antenna (MNT) Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Naval Research Laboratory
Solar wind Pickup Ion Composition Energy Spectrometer (SPICES) Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Technology Development of High Speed CMOS Detectors and Multilayer Mirrors for Dynamic Solar Soft X-ray Spectral Imaging Completed 3 Sensors and Instruments Smithsonian Institution
LIEFSI – Laboratory Investigation of Electric Field Sensor Instabilities Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors UC Berkeley Space Science Laboratory
The Solar Imaging Metasurface Polarimeter (SIMPol) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
High Temperature UV near field Imager Completed 2 In Situ Instruments and Sensors General Electric Company
Pyro-atmosphere Infrared Sounder: Monitoring Fire Weather Conditions with a Sub-Kilometer Spatial-Resolution Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder (PIRS) Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A Framework for Global Cloud Resolving OSSEs Completed 6 Cloud Computing NASA Headquarters
Blue Lidar Active 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center
Providing Impact via Large Language models for Access and Retrieval (PILLAR) Pilot Project Plan, Optimized for Rapid Results (PILLAR) Active Intelligent Data Understanding Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC) Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors University of Iowa
Open Climate Workbench to support efficient and innovative analysis of NASA's high-resolution observations and modeling datasets Completed 4 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Plume Ice Capture of Organics : Sample collection for in situ biosignature analyses. (PICO) Active 4 Exploration Destination Systems University of California-Berkeley
Developing an AI/ML transfer learning module for a PBL novel observing system (PBL NOS) Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Space Flight Center
Sediment Plumes and Blooms: Using Earth Observations and Modeling to Forecast Post-Fire impacts to Reservoir Water Quality and Quantity Active 3 Modeling Michigan Technological University
Rydberg Airborne Instrument Demonstration (RAID) (RAID) Active 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Terrestrial Environmental Rapid-Replicating Assimilation Hydrometeorology System: A machine-learning coupled water, energy, and vegetation terrestrial Earth System Digital Twin (TERRAHydro) Completed 5 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
QGG Tech Demonstration Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Concurrent Artificially-intelligent Spectrometry and Adaptive Lidar System: A new STV sub-orbital capability (CASALS) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
SNOWWI — Snow Water-equivalent Wide Swath Interferometer and Scatterometer (SNOWWI) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Massachusetts-Boston
Hyperspectral Radiometer Active 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
GEOS Visualization And Lagrangian dynamics Immersive eXtended Reality Tool for Scientific Discovery (VALIXR) Completed 6 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence NASA Headquarters
ODIN - Optomechanical-Distributed instrument for Inertial sensing and Navigation (ODIN) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Arizona
Atmospheric Oxygen Cubesat Mission for Mesosphere Lower Thermosphere Wave Dynamics (AtmOCube) Active Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder
CMLS and AMLS Upgrade Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Venus Surface Solar Array Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.
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