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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 384 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum Gravity Gradiometry In Hybrid Architectures with Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking for Spaceborne Earth System Mass Change Measurements | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Photonic Integrated Circuits in Space: The Hyperspectral Microwave Photonic Instrument (HyMPI) | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| Pilot Deployment of TERRAHydro: A framework, demonstration, and vision for Earth System Digital Twins | Active | 2 | Modeling | Science Systems and Applications, Inc. |
| Compact Fire Infrared Radiance Spectral Tracker (c-FIRST) | Active | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| The Aerosol Radiometer for Global Observation of the Stratosphere (ARGOS) Instrument (ARGOS) | Active | 7 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Science Systems and Applications, Inc. |
| Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors (ACMES) (ACMES) | Active | 6 | Thermal Control Components and Systems | Utah State University |
| Photonic Integrated Circuit/Photonic Lantern Expansion to Atmospheric Lidar Wavelengths | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center |
| Fuel-Driven Wildfire Risk Mapping Over CONUS to Guide Targeted Resources Allocation | Active | — | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory |
| Next-Generation Solar Neutron Tracking Instrument (SONTRAC) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| High-Temperature MEMS based Venus seismometer | Completed | 2 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| SoOp verification for Rydberg MW sensor - Demonstration of multi-frequency (L and S band) radar remote sensing using a quantum Rydberg receiver instrument (IIP-24) | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Hybrid Neural Scene Representations for Earth Observation: Unifying Physics-Based Models, Heterogeneous Datasets, and Radiance Fields | Completed | 2 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Ames Research Center |
| Lidar Instrument for Salinity and Temperature detection in the Ocean (LISTO) (LISTO) | Active | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Advanced Water Vapor/Ocean Plastic Polarimetry | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Langley Research Center |
| Earth-observing PIC – Component Development (EPIC) | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Lockheed Martin Inc. |
| Developing interface between Leach Gen III Camera Controller and Pandora V3 ground based spectroscopy instrument to evaluate novel DUV detectors in mission applications | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Spaceflight Version of CFI | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GHG PIC Spectrometer | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Lockheed Martin Inc. |
| Wildland Fire Pre-Formulation Concept Study | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Versatile Computational Pixel Infrared Land Imager | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Design for Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Research (DAGGER) | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | Vector Atomic, Inc. |
| Edge Intelligence for Hyperspectral Applications in Earth Science for New Observing Systems | Completed | 6 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | CARR ASTRONAUTICS CORPORATION |
| Rydberg Radar: A quantum architecture covering the radio window for multi-science signal of opportunity remote sensing with focus on land surface hydrology | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Laboratory study of asymmetric reconnection including diamagnetic suppression | Active | — | — | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Development of Digital Twin Technologies for Climate Projections | Completed | 3 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Goddard Institute of Space Studies |
| Multi-functional airborne fluorescence lidar to assess ocean systems health and marine pollution (FLOR-A) | Active | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems Inc. |
| Innovative geometric deep learning models for onboard detection of anomalous events | Completed | 3 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| The Solar Transition Region UltraViolet Explorer | Active | — | — | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| WAMI for Support of Wildland Fire Science, Management, and Disaster Mitigation | Active | 5 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | — |
| A New Snow Observing Strategy in Support of Hydrological Science and Applications | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | NASA Headquarters |
| Quantum Parametric Mode Sorting Lidar (QPMS) | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation |
| HALE InSAR for Continual and Precise Measurement of Earth's Changing Surface | Completed | 7 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Aloft Sensing, Inc. |
| Compact Total Irradiance Monitor Flight Demonstration (CTIM) | Completed | 9 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ARCSTONE: Calibration of Lunar Spectral Reflectance from Space (ARCSTONE) | Completed | 7 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center |
| Mass Spectrometry of the Turbopause Region (MSTR) | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, LLC |
| Land Calibration Satellite - Breadboard | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation |
| Simplified Gravitational Reference Sensors for Future Earth Constellations | Completed | 4 | Sensing and Perception | University of Florida |
| Multi-Frequency & Multi-Beam Metasurface Antennas for Spaceborne Millimeter-Wave Radars | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| A Venus Durable Actuator and Electronics System | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Flight Demonstration of Multiband Uncooled Radiometer (MURI) | Completed | 9 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Leonardo DRS |
| Next-Generation Solar Neutron Tracker (SONTRAC) | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| Gravitational Reference Advanced Technology Test In Space (GRATTIS) (GRATTIS) | Active | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Florida |
| Event- and Feature-Based Observing System Design: Quantifying Science and Applications Benefit for Diverse Measurement Combinations | Active | 4 | Modeling | California Institute of Technology |
| Metasurface Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar: W-Band Metasurface Cloud Sensor (MACTRad) | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Metacept Systems |
| Heterogeneous Integration of High Operating Temperature Barrier IR Detectors and Waveguides: Integrated Photonics for IR Hyperspectral Sensing | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation |
| Compact ultra-violet spectropolarimetry enabled by meta-grating technologies | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Breakthrough Technologies Enabling ESPA-Class SmallSat Implementation of Earth Science LIDAR Missions | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Ultra-Wideband Photonic Spectrometer for PBL Sensing | Active | 3 | Other Sensors and Instruments | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. |
| Shuttered Plasma Instrument for Detecting Environmental Response (SPIDER) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Johns Hopkins University |
| Development of an EMCCD space camera for UV spectroscopy: probing Nitric Oxide in the polar night | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
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