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 127 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Thermal Coefficient of Resistance Microchannel Plates | Active | — | Sensing and Perception | Argonne National Laboratory |
| High Performance FUV, NUV, and UV/Optical CMOS Imagers | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Colloid Thruster Life Testing and Modeling | Active | — | Electric Space Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ultra-stable Telescope Research and Analysis – Critical Technologies (ULTRA-CT) | Completed | — | Optical Components | BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems Inc. |
| A sub millimeter integral field spectrometer optimized for space | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Chicago |
| Rapid EBL Patterning for Customized Reflection Gratings | Completed | — | Other Sensors and Instruments | University of Iowa |
| Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer Reflight (MaGIXS 2) | Completed | — | Field and Particle Detectors | NASA Headquarters |
| Development of Virtually Imaged Phased Array Devices: Enabling efficient velocity-resolved (delta v < 3 km/sec) background limited spectroscopy in the far-infrared (VIPA) | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Cornell University |
| Advancing Readout of Large-Format Far-IR Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | NASA Headquarters |
| Far-IR Detector Solutions for Low Noise, Large Format, Direct Absorption Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Advanced metamaterial-based structures for optical applications in the Far Ultraviolet | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Miniaturized solid-state based vector magnetometer for planetary field mapping | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | — |
| S4: Next-gen Mars Surface Mobility with HPSC | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Next generation Mars aerial vehicle advanced power system | Active | 3 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Small RTGs for Distributed Mars Instruments | Active | 2 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| MERF: Mars Electric Reusable Flyer | Completed | 6 | Robotic Systems | — |
| Shared front-end sample processing (SPP) technologies for astrobiology | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Zero power 244-Cm Sources for Spacecraft Instruments | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center |
| Hyperspectral Planetary Imaging Explorer : A Diffractive Multi-Object Imaging Spectrograph for Planetary Observations in Visible and IR Wavelengths (HyperPIX) | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| Fine-Scale Pixel Element Mapping for Mars, the Moon, and Other Bodies with Miniaturized LIBS | Active | — | Sensing and Perception | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Deployable Infrasonic Sensor Array for Venus Geophysical Studies (DISA) | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Multiwavelength Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Instrument for Planetary Materials Chemical Analysis (SERSICA) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia |
| Lunar Vehicle Active Charge Control System | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Holey Silicon-based Thermopiles for High-Sensitivity Broadband Thermal Detection | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of California-Irvine |
| Low-pressure ion mobility spectrometer for in-situ organic analysis | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| LASER ABLATION MASS ANALYZER (LAMA) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| A Selective High-Resolution Metamaterial Filter for Infrared Spectroscopy | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation |
| INSPECT3R: In Situ Nuclear Spectrometer with 3D Resolution | Active | — | In Situ Resource Use | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Compact Electrostatic Dust Analyzer for Measuring Dust Transport on Small Airless Bodies (CEDA) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Gas Analysis for Life Explorers (GALE) | Active | — | Environmental Monitoring, Safety, and Emergency Response | NASA Headquarters |
| Meta-Optically Steered Antenna Instrument for Cometary Sensing | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| Mid-Infrared Rapid Advanced Chiroptical Life-detection Explorer (MIRACLE) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Colorado School of Mines |
| Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV. Advancement of the Spatial Heterodyne EUV Interferometer (SHEUVI) | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Arizona |
| Spectral Instruments for Research in Geochemistry - SInRG | Completed | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Multispectral Organic Detection and Near-Infrared Exobiology Tool (HBR) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Seismometers for Harsh Atmospheric and Kinetic Environments (SHAKE) | Active | — | Environmental Monitoring, Safety, and Emergency Response | California Institute of Technology |
| Cavity-enhanced laser absorption spectroscopy for high sensitivity in-situ trace gas detection | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| Faceted Mirror Multiband Imager | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Solid-State CW Deep UV Laser Source for Planetary Science Instruments | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio |
| Submillimeter-wave Line-spectrometer for Isotopologue Measurements (SUBLIME) | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | California Institute of Technology |
| Tether based communication system for the SLUSH (Search for Life Using Submersible Heated drill) Europa probe (SLUSH) | Completed | — | Surface Umbilicals and Interfaces | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Maturation and demonstration of technology to enable through deep-ice communication (CryoComm) on Europa | Completed | — | Innovative Antennas | California Institute of Technology |
| Technology for Sending Signals Through the Ice on Ocean Worlds (STI Tech) | Completed | — | — | Johns Hopkins University |
| Swath-Mapping Lidar for Lunar Science and Exploration | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| Optical on Orion Artemis II (O2O Flight) | Active | 6 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Optical Space Telescope Assembly | Completed | — | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | Johnson Space Center |
| Graphitic Carbon Foam Structural Cores and Multifunctional Applications | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Materials | Johnson Space Center |
| A Ground Testbed to Advance US Capability in Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking | Completed | 5 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Flight and Ground Systems | Johnson Space Center |
| Efficient, Resilient, Gallium Nitride-Based Cubesat-Sized Power System (GaN LVPC) | Completed | 4 | Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| CO2 Washout Capability with Breathing Manikin | Completed | 4 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Johnson Space Center |
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