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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 →

21,172 projects harvested so far — page 45 of 424.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization Last updated Potential ⓘ
The bridge from canopy condition to continental scale biodiversity forecasts, including the rare species of greatest conservation concern Completed 6 Modeling Duke University 2024-07-09 —
Illuminating the Darkness: Exploiting untapped data and information resources in Earth Science Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Gravity Mapping and Monitoring Measurements Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
High Power Mid-IR Laser Development 2.8 to 3.5 Microns Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Prototyping agile production, analytics and visualization pipelines for big-data on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Completed 6 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
QuakeSim: Multi-Source Synergistic Data Intensive Computing for Earth Science Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Ontology-based Metadata Portal for Unified Semantics (OlyMPUS) Completed 5 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Creation of a Wildland Fire Analysis: Products to enable Earth Science Completed 4 Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2024-07-09 —
A New Class of Advanced Accuracy Satellite Instrumentation (AASI) for the CLARREO Mission Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Advanced Hybrid On-Board Data Processor - SpaceCube 2.0 Completed 6 High-Performance Processors NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Distributed Oceanographic Match-up Service (DOMS) Completed 4 Cyber Infrastructure NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Green OAWL Airborne Demostrator (GrOAWL) Completed 5 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
A Cubesat Flight Demonstration of a Photon Counting Infrared Detector (LMPC CubeSat) Completed 6 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (CMDA) Completed 5 Science Modeling NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Cloud Enabled Scientific Collaborative Research Environment (CESCRE) Completed 5 Collaborative Science and Engineering Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2024-07-09 —
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 2024-07-09 —
Development and Demonstration of an Airborne Differential Absorption Radar for Humidity Sounding Inside Clouds Completed 6 Environment Sensors Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2024-07-09 —
Precision Deployable Mast for the SWOT KaRIn Instrument Completed 4 Innovative Antennas NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
SRI-CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Science (SRI-CIRES) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Computer-Aided Discovery of Earth Surface Deformation Phenomena Completed 4 Intelligent Data Understanding NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Laser Ranging Frequency Stabilization for GRACE II Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
HSRL for Aerosols, Winds, and Clouds using Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (HAWC-OAWL) Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Cold Atom Gravity Gradiometer for Geodesy Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Preparing NASA for Future Snow Missions: Incorporation of the Spatially Explicit SnowModel in LIS Completed 5 Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 2024-07-09 —
High Accuracy Vector Helium Magnetometer (HAVHM) Completed 6 Field and Particle Detectors NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
A Multi-parameter Atmospheric Profiling Radar for ACE (ACERAD) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Advanced Antenna for Digital Beamforming SAR Completed 5 Innovative Antennas NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Compact high-resolution trace-gas hyperspectral imagers, with agile on-board processing Completed 7 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Los Alamos National Security, LLC 2024-07-09 —
Multivariate Data Fusion and Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Completed 6 Science Modeling NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
StereoBit: Advanced Onboard Science Data Processing to Enable Future Earth Science Completed 6 Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development CARR ASTRONAUTICS CORPORATION 2024-07-09 —
ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD) for Cloud, Precipitation and Wind Measurement Completed — Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Development of a Prototype 2 mm Fiber-Coupled Seed Laser for Integration in Lidar Transmitter Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Demonstration of a Hyperspectral Microwave Receiver Subsystem Completed 5 Quantum Communications NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Fabry-Perot for the Integrated Direct Detection Lidar (FIDDL) Completed 4 Lasers NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
An Analytic Center for Biodiversity and Remote Sensing Data Integration Completed 7 Modeling Yale University 2024-07-09 —
TIRCIS: A Thermal Infrared, Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Small Satellite Applications (TIRCIS) Completed 6 Optical Components NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Quantum Well Multiplier Infrared Photodetectors Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Modification of HSRL and RSP for ACE, GEO-CAPE, and Glory Applications from the NASA P-3 Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
NASA Evolutionary Programming Analytic Center (NEPAC) for Climate Data Records, Science Products and Models Completed 6 Modeling Goddard Space Flight Center 2024-07-09 —
Engineering Model Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) Instrument for the GEO-CAPE Mission Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) Completed 6 Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation NASA Headquarters 2024-07-09 —
Dual Mode Feasibility Testing Completed 3 Earth Storable Propellants Marshall Space Flight Center 2024-09-06 —
Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (EDA) for Exploring Dust Transport Processes on the Lunar Surface Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors — 2024-09-24 —
A High Temperature Transmitter for Venus Surface Environment Completed 3 Other Exploration Destination Systems InnoSys, Inc. 2024-09-24 —
Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE) (SSOLVE) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors University of Maryland-College Park 2024-09-24 —
Maturation of the Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer (BECA) for Surface and Sub-surface Lunar Studies Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center 2024-09-24 —
Paving the Way for Astrophysics Research in Puerto Rico Completed — Detectors and Focal Planes University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 2024-10-23 —
Testing Venus Seismometer Design Completed — Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management University of Alaska Fairbanks 2024-10-23 —
New Mexico NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Completed — Collaborative Science and Engineering New Mexico State University-Grants 2024-10-23 —
R3 Task D15: Microgravity Effects On Biofilm Stiffness Completed — Human Factors Engineering University of Kentucky Research Foundation 2024-10-23 —
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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.