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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 →

21,176 projects harvested so far — page 386 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
LIEFSI – Laboratory Investigation of Electric Field Sensor Instabilities Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors UC Berkeley Space Science Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
The Solar Imaging Metasurface Polarimeter (SIMPol) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2026-06-26 —
High Temperature UV near field Imager Completed 2 In Situ Instruments and Sensors General Electric Company 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
A Framework for Global Cloud Resolving OSSEs Completed 6 Cloud Computing NASA Headquarters 2026-06-26 —
Blue Lidar Active 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center 2026-06-26 Medium
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 2026-06-26 —
MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC) Completed 5 Field and Particle Detectors University of Iowa 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
Plume Ice Capture of Organics : Sample collection for in situ biosignature analyses. (PICO) Active 4 Exploration Destination Systems University of California-Berkeley 2026-06-26 Medium
Developing an AI/ML transfer learning module for a PBL novel observing system (PBL NOS) Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 High
Rydberg Airborne Instrument Demonstration (RAID) (RAID) Active 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 High
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. 2026-06-26 —
QGG Tech Demonstration Completed 3 Field and Particle Detectors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 Medium
SNOWWI — Snow Water-equivalent Wide Swath Interferometer and Scatterometer (SNOWWI) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Massachusetts-Boston 2026-06-26 Medium
Hyperspectral Radiometer Active 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 Medium
GEOS Visualization And Lagrangian dynamics Immersive eXtended Reality Tool for Scientific Discovery (VALIXR) Completed 6 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence NASA Headquarters 2026-06-26 —
ODIN - Optomechanical-Distributed instrument for Inertial sensing and Navigation (ODIN) Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Arizona 2026-06-26 Medium
Atmospheric Oxygen Cubesat Mission for Mesosphere Lower Thermosphere Wave Dynamics (AtmOCube) Active — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder 2026-06-26 —
CMLS and AMLS Upgrade Active 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 Medium
Venus Surface Solar Array Completed 3 Photovoltaic Electrical Power Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
Photonic Integrated Circuits in Space: The Hyperspectral Microwave Photonic Instrument (HyMPI) Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters 2026-06-26 —
Pilot Deployment of TERRAHydro: A framework, demonstration, and vision for Earth System Digital Twins Active 2 Modeling Science Systems and Applications, Inc. 2026-06-26 High
Compact Fire Infrared Radiance Spectral Tracker (c-FIRST) Active 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 Medium
The Aerosol Radiometer for Global Observation of the Stratosphere (ARGOS) Instrument (ARGOS) Active 7 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Science Systems and Applications, Inc. 2026-06-26 Low
Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors (ACMES) (ACMES) Active 6 Thermal Control Components and Systems Utah State University 2026-06-26 Medium
Photonic Integrated Circuit/Photonic Lantern Expansion to Atmospheric Lidar Wavelengths Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Langley Research Center 2026-06-26 —
Fuel-Driven Wildfire Risk Mapping Over CONUS to Guide Targeted Resources Allocation Active — Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
Next-Generation Solar Neutron Tracking Instrument (SONTRAC) Active — In Situ Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters 2026-06-26 —
High-Temperature MEMS based Venus seismometer Completed 2 In Situ Instruments and Sensors NASA Headquarters 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
Hybrid Neural Scene Representations for Earth Observation: Unifying Physics-Based Models, Heterogeneous Datasets, and Radiance Fields Completed 2 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center 2026-06-26 —
Lidar Instrument for Salinity and Temperature detection in the Ocean (LISTO) (LISTO) Active 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-06-26 High
Advanced Water Vapor/Ocean Plastic Polarimetry Completed 2 Optical Components Langley Research Center 2026-06-26 —
Earth-observing PIC – Component Development (EPIC) Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Lockheed Martin Inc. 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
Spaceflight Version of CFI Completed — Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2026-06-26 —
GHG PIC Spectrometer Completed 3 Optical Components Lockheed Martin Inc. 2026-06-26 —
Wildland Fire Pre-Formulation Concept Study Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
Versatile Computational Pixel Infrared Land Imager Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-06-26 —
Design for Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Research (DAGGER) Completed 2 Sensing and Perception Vector Atomic, Inc. 2026-06-26 —
Edge Intelligence for Hyperspectral Applications in Earth Science for New Observing Systems Completed 6 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence CARR ASTRONAUTICS CORPORATION 2026-06-26 —
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 2026-06-26 —
Laboratory study of asymmetric reconnection including diamagnetic suppression Active — — University of Wisconsin-Madison 2026-06-26 —
Development of Digital Twin Technologies for Climate Projections Completed 3 Intelligent Data Understanding Goddard Institute of Space Studies 2026-06-26 —
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. 2026-06-26 High
Innovative geometric deep learning models for onboard detection of anomalous events Completed 3 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence The University of Texas at Dallas 2026-06-26 —
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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)".
💻 Show API usage example (cURL)
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/nasa-tech-projects/api?q=laser&status=Active&sort=trl&page=1"

Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.