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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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21,172 projects harvested so far — page 44 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
A High Performance, Onboard Multicore Intelligent Payload Module for Orbital and Suborbital Remote Sensing Missions Completed 6 Electronics NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
A mission simulation and evaluation platform for terrestrial hydrology using the NASA Land Information System (LIS) Completed 6 Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Model Predictive Control Architecture for Optimizing Earth Science Data Collection Completed 4 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Correlator Array-Fed Microwave Radiometer Component Technologies Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center 2024-07-09 —
Smart On-Demand Analysis of Multi-Temporal and Full Resolution SAR ARDs in Multi-Cloud & HPC Completed 5 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing California Institute of Technology 2024-07-09 —
EcoSAR The first P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water (EcoSAR) Completed 6 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Uncovering effects of climate variables on global vegetation Completed 4 Semantic Technologies NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Prototype HyspIRI Thermal Infrared Radiometer (PHyTIR) for Earth Science Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Quantifying Uncertainty and Kinematics of Earthquake Systems (QUAKES-A) Analytic Center Framework Completed 5 Modeling California Institute of Technology 2024-07-09 —
IMPRESS Lidar: Integrated Micro-Photonics for Remote Earth Science Sensing Lidar (IMPRESS) Completed 4 Lasers University of California-Santa Barbara 2024-07-09 —
DEREChOS: Data Environment for Rapid Exploration and Characterization of Organized Systems (DEREChOS) Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Mining and Utilizing Dataset Relevancy from Oceanographic Dataset Metadata, Usage Metrics, and User Feedback to Improve Data Discovery and Access (MUDROD) Completed 6 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Integration of the Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer on NASA aircraft with a miniature active leveling platform Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Risk reduction for the PATH mission Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
On-Board Processing (OBP) to Advance the PanFTS Imaging System for GEO-CAPE Completed 5 High-Speed Onboard Interconnects and Networks NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Antenna Technologies for 3D Imaging, Wide Swath Radar Supporting ACE Completed 4 Navigation Sensors NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Cloud-based Analytic Framework for Precipitation Research (CAPRi) Completed 4 Modeling University of Alabama in Huntsville 2024-07-09 —
An Instrument Concept for Combined Observations of GNSS and Astronomical Sources Through a Standard Signal Path for Geodetic Applications Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes The University of Texas at Austin 2024-07-09 —
An Advanced Imaging Lidar for Forest Carbon Studies Completed — Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
MISTiC Winds: Midwave Infrared Sounding of Temperature and humidity in a Constellation for Winds (MISTiC) Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
A Community-Driven Workflow Recommendation and Reuse Infrastructure Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Advanced Photon-Counting Detector Subsystem for Spaceborne Lidar Applications Completed 3 Lasers Langley Research Center 2024-07-09 —
Next-Generation Real-Time Geodetic Station Sensor Web for Natural Hazards Research and Applications Completed 6 Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
A Flight-like Prototype of the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) Completed 5 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
An Optimized Interferometer for HSRL Applications Completed 4 Exascale Supercomputer File System NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Autonomous, On-board Processing for Sensor Systems Completed 6 Exascale Supercomputers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
SciSpark: Highly Interactive and Scalable Model Evaluation and Climate Metrics for Scientific Data and Analysis Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
OceanXtremes: Oceanographic Data-Intensive Anomaly Detection and Analysis Portal Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
Automated Event Service: Efficient and Flexible Searching for Earth Science Phenomena Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Prototype Sensor Development for Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEO-TASO) for the GEO-CAPE Mission Completed 6 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Integrated Inertial Sensors and Laser Ranging Instruments for Small Satellite Earth Geodesy Constellations (ILaRIS) Completed 3 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Florida 2024-07-09 —
Mining Chained Modules in Analytic Center Framework Completed 5 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing Carnegie Mellon University 2024-07-09 —
CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) Completed 5 Cryogenic/Thermal Systems Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
A Compact Remote Sensing Lidar for High Resolution Measurements of Methane Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
Multi Application Smallsat Tri-band Radar Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2024-07-09 —
Laser transmitter for space-based water vapor lidar Completed 3 Lasers Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024-07-09 —
Frequency Comb Spectrometer for Satellite Atmospheric Remote Sensing (FCS-SARS) Completed 4 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors National Institute of Standards and Technology 2024-07-09 —
NASA Information And Data System for Earth Science Data Fusion and Analytics (NAIADS) Completed 6 Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
SPCTOR: Sensing-Policy Controller and OptimizeR (SPCTOR) Completed 4 Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing University of Southern California 2024-07-09 —
Global Flood Risk From Advanced Modeling and Remote Sensing in Collaboration With Google Earth Engine Completed 6 Science Modeling NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Plume Tracer: Interactive Mapping of Atmospheric Plumes via GPU-based Volumetric Ray Casting Completed 2 Learning and Adaptation NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
Wide-swath Shared Aperture Cloud Radar (WiSCR) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Semi-Automatic Science Workflow Synthesis for High-End Computing on the NASA Earth Exchange Completed 6 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
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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.