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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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15,351 projects harvested so far — page 7 of 308.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Maturation of a Compact LIBS Spectrometer for Lunar Investigations Active In Situ Resource Use Washington University in St Louis
Maturation of the Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE) (KArLE) Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Goddard Space Flight Center
CsI Calorimeter for a Compton-Pair Telescope Completed Detectors and Focal Planes
Atmosphere Effects of Precipitation through Energetic X-rays (AEPEX) CubeSat Mission (AEPEX) Completed 4 Sensors and Instruments University of Colorado Boulder
Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere Enhancements in Density (LLITED) CubeSat Mission (LLITED) Completed 3 Lasers The Aerospace Corporation
Reduced Envelope Multispectral Infrared Radiometer (REMIR) Completed 3 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Combining distributed RF and multi-spectral optical observations for a spaceborne 3-D lightning measurement concept Completed Sensors and Instruments NASA Headquarters
Wide-band Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Radiometer Instrument to Measure Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) Completed 5 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves NASA Headquarters
Continued Development of Small-Pixel CZT and CdTe Detectors for Future High-Angular-Resolution Hard X-ray Missions Completed 2 Optical Components
Sample Return Instrumentation for Small Solar System Bodies Completed 3 Environment Sensors University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Towards the Next Generation of Land Surface Remote Sensing: A Comparative Analysis of Passive Optical, Passive Microwave, Active Microwave, and LiDAR Retrievals Completed 6 Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development University of Maryland-College Park
A Single Photon Sensing and Photon Number Resolving Detector for NASA Missions Completed 4 Detectors and Focal Planes Rochester Institute of Technology
BASALT: Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains Completed Surface Mobility
Improved Lyman Ultraviolet Astronomy Capabilities through Enhanced Coatings Completed Coatings
Simulation-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Retrievals Completed 5 Uncertainty Quantification and Nondeterministic Simulation Methods California Institute of Technology
VISAGE: Visualization for Integrated Satellite, Airborne, and Ground-based data Exploration Completed 4 Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards University of Alabama in Huntsville
A Planetary Broadband Seismometer for the Lunar Geophysical Network and the Ocean Worlds Completed Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vortex Coronagraph High Contrast Demonstrations Completed 3 Optical Components California Institute of Technology
Estimations of fuel moisture content for improved wildland fire spread prediction Completed 5 Science Modeling University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
SESAR-LITE: Probing the Lunar Subsurface to Meet Artemis Science Goals Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Arizona
Development of a Prototype for the Thermal Infrared Composite Imaging Spectrometer instrument (TIRCIS) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes
Extending In-Situ Dating to New Geochronometers: Pb-Pb, Sm-Nd, Re-Os, and LuHf Completed 2 Sample Handling
Two-Dimensional Differential Deposition and Erosion for Thin-Shell Figure Correction, and Non-Distorting, High-Energy X-ray Multilayers Completed 3 Optical Components
A Path Towards Quantum-Computing-Assisted Earth Science Data Acquisition Tasking and Processing Completed 2 Intelligent Data Understanding Ames Research Center
Ground Stations as a Service (GSaS) for Near Real-time Direct Broadcast Earth Science Satellite Data Completed 6 Other Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems Langley Research Center
Standoff Ultra-Compact Raman system Development for faster daytime mineralogy and Raman Imaging (SUCR) Completed 2 Detectors and Focal Planes
All-Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy: Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV Completed 2 Lasers
Development of a non high voltage electron spectrometer for auroral studies Completed 4 Field and Particle Detectors Goddard Space Flight Center
Development of Silicon-substrate Based Fabry-Perot Etalons for far-IR Astrophysics Completed 4 Mirror Systems
Advancing the TRL of a Compact, High Dynamic Range Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Completed Detectors and Focal Planes Jet Propulsion Laboratory
New Scan Modes in Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers for Planetary Exploration Completed 2 Environment Sensors
Transition of CAPRi (Cloud-based Analytical framework for Precipitation Research) to NASA Earth Information System (EIS) Completed 6 Cyber Infrastructure Goddard Space Flight Center
Multi-wavelength Ocean Profiling and Atmospheric Lidar Completed 6 Lasers NASA Headquarters
Automated protocols for generating very high-resolution commercial validation products with NASA HEC resources Completed 4 V&V of Software systems Goddard Space Flight Center
Seismic Orbital Laser VibrometEr (SOLVE) Completed 2 Lasers
Mahina Color Camera: Snapshot Multispectral Imaging for Lunar Applications Completed Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors Johns Hopkins University
Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves University of Massachusetts-Amherst
INFLAME LW channel diagnostic and rework Completed Optical Components Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Generalizing Distributed Missions Design Using the Trade-space Analysis Tool for Constellations (TAT-C) and Machine Learning (ML) Completed 5 Data Reduction Hardware Systems Goddard Space Flight Center
NeMO-Net – The Neural Multi-Modal Observation & Training Network for Global Coral Reef Assessment Completed 5 Science Modeling Ames Research Center
Compact Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Mission Concept Study (CTSIS) Completed 2 Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors University of Colorado Boulder
High-power terahertz lasers with excellent beam quality for local oscillator sources Completed 4 Lasers
An Ultra-Compact Imaging Spectrometer for the Lunar Surface: Enabling Volatile Mapping and Unraveling the Moon's Geologic History Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors California Institute of Technology
XTRA: An eXTraterrestrial Regolith Analyzer for Lunar Soil Completed 5 In Situ Instruments and Sensors Ames Research Center
SpIRRL: Spectroscopic Infrared Reflectance LIDAR Completed In Situ Resource Use University of Hawaii at Manoa
Generative models to forecast community reorganization with climate change Completed 6 Science Modeling Duke University
SWIRP: Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties Completed 4 Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves Goddard Space Flight Center
µ-Spec: An Integrated Spectrometer for Terahertz Space Spectroscopy Completed 5 Detectors and Focal Planes
THAI-SPICE: Testbed for High-Acuity Imaging – Stable Photometry and Image-Motion Compensation Experiment Completed Mirror Systems Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio
Onboard Processing and Retasking Flight Experiment Onboard Spaceborne Computing 2 (SBC-2) Payload on the International Space Station (ISS) Completed 6 Edge Computing Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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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.