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 116 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crosscutting Spectrometer Advancement: High Throughput, Multi-Octave Imaging Spectrometer (CC-Spec) | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Optimized Integrated Vehicle, Operations, and Network Constellation Design (OptCon) | Completed | 3 | Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Radiometric Autonomous Navigation Fused with Optical for Deep Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| iPLUMES - Integrated Planetary Ultra-sensitive Molecular Emission Spectrometer (iPLUMES) | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Multi-Functional 3-D Printed Customized Luneburg Lens Antennas for Future Earth Science Applications | Completed | 1 | Structures and Antennas | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| High Temperature Superconductor Bolometers for Planetary Science (HTSBPS) | Completed | 1 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Technology for Icy Moons Seismology | Completed | 3 | Below-Surface Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Development of Planetary Protection Technologies for Special Region Missions (DPPTSRM) | Completed | 4 | Planetary Protection | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Qualified Electronics for Extreme Cold Environment (QEECE) | Completed | 4 | Launch Vehicle Propellant | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Chip-Scale Heterodyne Spectrometers for Cubesats and Small Landers | Completed | 6 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Next Generation Active/Passive Sensors for Observing Storm-scale Processes from Space | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Towards Sub-mm Level Formation Knowledge and mm-Level Control of Distributed Spacecraft for Earth Remote Sensing Using Small Satellites | Completed | 2 | Distributed Aperture | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| A Novel, Low-Cost Conformable Lander | Completed | — | Above-Surface Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ultra-Wideband Receiver Package For The North America Array (UWR for the NAA) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| A Novel Drag-Free Design for a Geostationary Gravitational Wave | Completed | — | Distributed Aperture | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Combined Miniature Mass Spectrometer and Tunable Laser Spectrometer | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| CMOS SoC Waveform Generators for mm-wave Radars and Active Spectrometers (CMOS Wavegen) | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ground-Based Nanoradian Optical Astrometry and Applications to Navigation | Completed | 3 | Optimetrics | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Low-Loss, Low-Noise, Crystalline Silicon Dielectric for Superconducting Microstrip and Kinetic Inductance Detector Capacitors | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Methane Sensing Immersion Grating Spectrometer (MSIGS) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Cryogenic Active Mirrors (CAM) | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Hybrid Rockets for CubeSats (HRC) | Completed | 4 | Hybrids | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Rad-Tolerant Low Power Avionics for Deep Space Small Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Two-Phase Thermal Control Technology for Small Spacecraft Exploration | Completed | 4 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Validation and Sensitivity Analysis of 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging of the Interior of Primitive Solar System Bodies: Comets and Asteroids | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Two-Phase Thermal Control Technology for Small Spacecraft Exploration | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| An Advanced, Compact, Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer for Planetary Systems (AUVIS) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Low Power Reconfigurable FPGA Transponder | Completed | — | High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| High Efficiency LILT Solar Cells for Deep-Space Small Spacecraft | Completed | 2 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Fire Danger Assessment System (FDAS) | Completed | 8 | Science Modeling | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Venus Suface Sampling and Analysis | Completed | 6 | Sample Acquisition and Handling | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Stable Field Emitters Using Inverse Opal Structures | Completed | 1 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Combining Power and Data Using Powerline Communication for Harness Simplification and Mass Reduction | Completed | 3 | Real-Time Software | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Kinetic Inductance Detector for Imaging at Millimeter Wavelengths (KID) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Asteroid Retrieval Technology | Completed | — | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Advanced Micro-Transceiver Technologies for Extreme Mass/Energy/Volume Challenged Missions | Completed | — | Information Assurance | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Venus Suface Sampling and Analysis | Completed | 4 | Sample Acquisition and Handling | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Rad-tolerant Low Power Avionics for Deep Space Small Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ku/Ka/W-band Antenna for Electronically-Scanned Cloud and Precipitation Radar (3CPR) | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Advanced, Compact, Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer for Planetary Systems (AUVIS) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Data Science (Big Data/Data Science) | Completed | — | Intelligent Data Understanding | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Combining Power and Data using Powerline Communication for Harness Simplification and Mass Reduction | Completed | 2 | Management and Control | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Archiving, Processing and Dissemination for the Big Data Era | Completed | — | High-Performance Processors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Next-generation Miniaturized Thermal Imagers Based on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and an Innovative Ultra-compact Optical Design | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| An Ultrabroadband THz Heterodyne Receiver With Reduced Cryocooling Requirements | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Extreme Weather Instrument Technologies for the Next Earth Science Decadal Survey (PATH) | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Laser Communications Subsystem for Interplanetary CubeSats | Completed | — | Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ultra-high Specific Impulse Lithium-fueled Ion Thruster for Interstellar Precursor Mission Concepts | Completed | 3 | Warm Gas | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Active Mirrors for High Contrast Imaging | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Metamaterials for Advanced Visible and Ultraviolet Optical Components (Metamaterials) | Completed | 1 | Mirror Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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