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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.

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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 42 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
A Community-Driven Workflow Recommendation and Reuse Infrastructure Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Advanced Photon-Counting Detector Subsystem for Spaceborne Lidar Applications Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center
Next-Generation Real-Time Geodetic Station Sensor Web for Natural Hazards Research and Applications Completed 6 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies NASA Headquarters
A Science-Focused, Scalable, Flexible Instrument Simulation (OSSE) Toolkit for Mission Design Completed 6 Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development California Institute of Technology
A Flight-like Prototype of the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) Completed 5 Lasers NASA Headquarters
An Optimized Interferometer for HSRL Applications Completed 4 Exascale Supercomputer File System NASA Headquarters
Autonomous, On-board Processing for Sensor Systems Completed 6 Exascale Supercomputers NASA Headquarters
High Efficiency, Digitally Calibrated TR Modules Enabling Lightweight SweepSAR Architectures for NASA-ISPO SAR (NISAR)-class Radar Instruments Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
SciSpark: Highly Interactive and Scalable Model Evaluation and Climate Metrics for Scientific Data and Analysis Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
OceanXtremes: Oceanographic Data-Intensive Anomaly Detection and Analysis Portal Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Design and Fabrication of a Breadboard, Fully Conductively Cooled, 2-Micron, Pulsed Laser for the 3-D Winds Decadal Survey Mission Completed 3 Lasers NASA Headquarters
Automated Event Service: Efficient and Flexible Searching for Earth Science Phenomena Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Prototype Sensor Development for Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEO-TASO) for the GEO-CAPE Mission Completed 6 Lasers NASA Headquarters
Integrated Inertial Sensors and Laser Ranging Instruments for Small Satellite Earth Geodesy Constellations (ILaRIS) Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Florida
Mining Chained Modules in Analytic Center Framework Completed 5 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Carnegie Mellon University
CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) Completed 5 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Metamaterial-based, Low SWaP, Robust and High Performance Hyperspectral Sensor for Land and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Phoebus Optoelectronics, LLC
A Compact Remote Sensing Lidar for High Resolution Measurements of Methane Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters
SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT FOR HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTHâS SURFACE USING A LARGE-APERTURE MESH ANTENNA (OSIRIS) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Multi Application Smallsat Tri-band Radar Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Laser transmitter for space-based water vapor lidar Completed 3 Lasers Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frequency Comb Spectrometer for Satellite Atmospheric Remote Sensing (FCS-SARS) Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors National Institute of Standards and Technology
NASA Information And Data System for Earth Science Data Fusion and Analytics (NAIADS) Completed 6 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle NASA Headquarters
Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) Instrument for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
SPCTOR: Sensing-Policy Controller and OptimizeR (SPCTOR) Completed 4 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing University of Southern California
Global Flood Risk From Advanced Modeling and Remote Sensing in Collaboration With Google Earth Engine Completed 6 Science Modeling NASA Headquarters
Plume Tracer: Interactive Mapping of Atmospheric Plumes via GPU-based Volumetric Ray Casting Completed 2 Learning and Adaptation NASA Headquarters
Signals of Opportunity Synthetic Aperture Radar for High Resolution Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces Completed 5 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
Wide-swath Shared Aperture Cloud Radar (WiSCR) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Semi-Automatic Science Workflow Synthesis for High-End Computing on the NASA Earth Exchange Completed 6 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters
The bridge from canopy condition to continental scale biodiversity forecasts, including the rare species of greatest conservation concern Completed 6 Modeling Duke University
Illuminating the Darkness: Exploiting untapped data and information resources in Earth Science Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Gravity Mapping and Monitoring Measurements Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
High Power Mid-IR Laser Development 2.8 to 3.5 Microns Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters
Prototyping agile production, analytics and visualization pipelines for big-data on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Completed 6 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters
QuakeSim: Multi-Source Synergistic Data Intensive Computing for Earth Science Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters
Ontology-based Metadata Portal for Unified Semantics (OlyMPUS) Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
Creation of a Wildland Fire Analysis: Products to enable Earth Science Completed 4 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
A New Class of Advanced Accuracy Satellite Instrumentation (AASI) for the CLARREO Mission Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
Advanced Hybrid On-Board Data Processor - SpaceCube 2.0 Completed 6 High-Performance Processors NASA Headquarters
Distributed Oceanographic Match-up Service (DOMS) Completed 4 Cyber Infrastructure NASA Headquarters
Green OAWL Airborne Demostrator (GrOAWL) Completed 5 Lasers NASA Headquarters
A Cubesat Flight Demonstration of a Photon Counting Infrared Detector (LMPC CubeSat) Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (CMDA) Completed 5 Science Modeling NASA Headquarters
Cloud Enabled Scientific Collaborative Research Environment (CESCRE) Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Development of an Internally-Calibrated Wide-Band Airborne Microwave Radiometer to Provide High-Resolution Wet-Tropospheric Path Delay Measurements for SWOT (HAMMR - High-frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-wave Radiometer) (HAMMR) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Development and Demonstration of an Airborne Differential Absorption Radar for Humidity Sounding Inside Clouds Completed 6 Environment Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Precision Deployable Mast for the SWOT KaRIn Instrument Completed 4 Innovative Antennas NASA Headquarters
SRI-CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science (SRI-CIRES) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Computer-Aided Discovery of Earth Surface Deformation Phenomena Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters
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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.
💻 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.