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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 420 of 422.

Title	Status	TRL	Technology area	Lead organization
Monitoring of the High-Energy Radiation Environment of Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars with SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat): Launch, Operations, and Science	Active	—	Sensing and Perception	Arizona State University-West
Frequency Programmable Resonators	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of California-Santa Barbara
PHANTOM: Precision High-Strain-Composites (HSCs) for AstroNomical Telescope OptoMechanics (PHANTOM)	Active	—	Materials	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Laboratory Demonstration of High Contrast Using PAPLC with High-Order Wavefront Sensor	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
Supporting technologies for large-scale kinetic inductance current sensor readouts	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of Colorado Boulder
Technology development for a high-resolving power x-ray spectrometer	Active	—	Observatories	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building the Foundations for Huge-N Lunar Radio Interferometry	Active	—	Observatories	Brown University
STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry : Precision formation-flying cubesats enabling space interferometry (STARI)	Active	—	Guidance and Targeting Algorithms	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Development of blocking filters using high throughput SiC grids	Active	—	Observatories	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Piezo-optic Phase Shifters for Integrated Astro-photonics	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
New techniques toward the nanofabrication of custom, blazed UV gratings to enable next-generation spectroscopy	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Flat Lens Ultraviolet Optics for Astrophysics	Active	—	Sensing and Perception	Naval Research Laboratory
Thermo-Optical Metrology for Exoplanet observatories	Active	—	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	University of Arizona
A Novel Asynchronous Integrating Latching controller for MEMS deformable mirrors (NAIL)	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Demonstration of an HgCdTe Detector-Based Ultra-Stable Mid- Infrared Spectrometer for Transit Spectroscopy and Phase Curve Observations of Habitable Planets Around M-Stars	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Johns Hopkins University
Terahertz HEB mixers with the Negative Electrothermal Feedback	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Chip-Scale Atom-stabilized MEtrology Laser for Space Telescopes (C-SAMEL)	Active	—	Observatories	California Institute of Technology
Sensor-in-the-Loop Testbed to Enable Versatile/Intelligent/Dynamic Earth Observation (VIDEO)	Completed	3	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Compact Delay Lines for Space Interferometry	Active	—	Observatories	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Development of a Low EMI and Acoustic Background Characterization Testbed for Ultra-low Noise Transition Edge Sensor Bolometers	Completed	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	NASA Headquarters
DTAS: A prototype Digital Twin of Air-Sea interactions (DTAS)	Completed	3	Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Developing a Gamma Ray Reflectometer for 511 keV Multilayer Performance Characterization	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of Iowa
Far-infrared photon-counting arrays based on superconducting nanowires	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Development of 1D Lobster Eye Optics for a Wide-Field X-Ray Transient Monitor	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	NASA Headquarters
The EUV Snapshot Imaging Spectrograph II (ESIS)	Active	—	Software Development, Engineering, and Integrity	NASA Headquarters
High speed quantum well detectors for long baseline imaging	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Replicating epoxy optical surfaces on ceramic shells to produce high-angular resolution, lightweight full-shell X-ray optics	Completed	—	Observatories	NASA Headquarters
FOXSI-5: A Rocket Re-flight for High Resolution Focused X-ray Observations of the Sun	Completed	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of California-Berkeley
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations : A Long-duration Balloon-borne Instrument for Particle Astrophysics at the Highest Energies	Completed	—	Field and Particle Detectors	University of Chicago
Designing and Fabricating Multilayer Optics to Enable a Future 511 keV Focusing Imager	Active	—	Other Sensors and Instruments	University of Iowa
Technology Development for Balloon-borne and Space-Based Microwave Telescopes	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Case Western Reserve University
Band selecting ultraviolet coatings by atomic layer engineering	Active	—	Materials	California Institute of Technology
A Trade Study on the Temperature and Moisture Vertical Information Content from Infrared Sounding	Completed	—	Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Terahertz Intensity Mapper	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	—
The Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment : Pathfinder Flight and Ultimate Mission (OGRE)	Active	—	Observatories	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
A SmallSat Lidar Concept for PBL Height Measurements	Completed	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Goddard Space Flight Center
Transforming Microchannel Plate Photodetectors for Future UV Instruments through Nano-Scale Additive Manufacturing	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio
Physical Science Informatics Data Repository (PSI)	Active	—	Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing	Marshall Space Flight Center
Understanding the limitations of high contrast nulling with photonic components	Active	—	In Situ Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Build and Commission a new Space Optics Laboratory (SOL) at UMass Lowell	Active	—	Software Development, Engineering, and Integrity	University of Massachusetts-Lowell
The Super - High Energy Replicated Optics Hard X-ray Telescope (SuperHERO)	Active	—	—	NASA Headquarters
Large area ALD-protected aluminum mirror coatings for HWO	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	California Institute of Technology
Flex Modules for manufacturable high-resolution X-ray telescope optics	Active	—	Observatories	University of Arizona
Advancing precision exoplanet science using single-mode fiber-fed spectroscopy	Active	—	Other Sensors and Instruments	Ohio State University-Main Campus
High-performance, broadband, large-area, monolithic CMOS X-ray sensors	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology development in UV coronagraphy to enable characterization of Earth-like exoplanets	Active	—	Observatories	University of Arizona
Scheduling the Unexpected: A Multi-Messenger, Multi-Mission Observation Planning Toolkit for Ground and Space Based Telescopes	Active	—	Software Development, Engineering, and Integrity	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Single-photon counting with SiSeRO to search for Earth-like planets.	Active	—	Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors	University of Chicago
Keck Observatory as an HWO Testbed: validating wavefront sensing and control schemes on a large segmented aperture in parallel with high-contrast science	Active	—	Observatories	University of California-Santa Cruz
Adaptable, Scalable, Intelligent Computing for Space (ASICS)	Active	—	Flight Computing and Avionics	Astrobotic Technology, Inc.

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