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 129 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultra-Stable Telescope Research and Analysis -Technology Maturation (ULTRA-TM) | Completed | 2 | Mirror Systems | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation | 2025-08-22 | — |
| EVEX2: Study of equatorial vortex and spread-F development | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | — | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Chip-scale Astrocomb for High Precision Spectrograph Calibration | Completed | — | Observatories | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A Hybrid Quantum Capacitance- Kinetic Inductance far-Infrared Detector | Active | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Radiation Damage Effects and Charge Trapping Correction Techniques in the COSI Germanium Detectors | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of California-San Diego | 2025-08-22 | — |
| The Landolt Mission | Active | — | Lasers | George Mason University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Highly scalable transition-edge sensor arrays for optical to near-infrared astronomy | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Dark hole maintenance with the Self Coherent Camera | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Arizona | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Demonstrating a megapixel array of UV superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Photonic High-Resolution Broadband Spectrographs for Space-Based Astrophysics Missions | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| µ-Spec Integrated Spectrometers for Far-Infrared Spectroscopy in Space | Completed | — | Optical Components | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| CubIXSS: The CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer | Completed | — | Sensors and Instruments | Southwest Research Institute - Boulder | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Scalable Microshutter Systems for Multi-object Spectroscopy | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Event-Driven and Rapid-Readout Hybrid CMOS Detectors for X-ray Astronomy | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Dual-purpose coronagraph masks for enabling high-contrast imaging with an IR/O/UV flagship mission | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Mission Classes and Technological Advances in Orbit Determination and Clock Precision to Enable Space-Based Imaging of Supermassive Black Holes | Completed | — | Timekeeping and Time Distribution | Continuum Space Systems, Inc. | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Scanning Coronal and Heliospheric Imager | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Johns Hopkins University | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Approaching the Fano Limit with UV, Optical, and Near-Infrared MKIDs | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Office of Research | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Laboratory Demonstrations of High Contrast with Black Silicon Coronagraph Masks | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Quantum-cascade local oscillators beyond 5 THz | Completed | — | Lasers | University of California-Los Angeles | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Low Thermal Coefficient of Resistance Microchannel Plates | Active | — | Sensing and Perception | Argonne National Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| High Performance FUV, NUV, and UV/Optical CMOS Imagers | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Colloid Thruster Life Testing and Modeling | Active | — | Electric Space Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Ultra-stable Telescope Research and Analysis – Critical Technologies (ULTRA-CT) | Completed | — | Optical Components | BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems Inc. | 2025-08-22 | — |
| A sub millimeter integral field spectrometer optimized for space | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Chicago | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Rapid EBL Patterning for Customized Reflection Gratings | Completed | — | Other Sensors and Instruments | University of Iowa | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer Reflight (MaGIXS 2) | Completed | — | Field and Particle Detectors | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| 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 | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Advancing Readout of Large-Format Far-IR Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | NASA Headquarters | 2025-08-22 | — |
| 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 | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Advanced metamaterial-based structures for optical applications in the Far Ultraviolet | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-08-22 | — |
| Miniaturized solid-state based vector magnetometer for planetary field mapping | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | — | 2025-09-10 | — |
| S4: Next-gen Mars Surface Mobility with HPSC | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-09-17 | — |
| Next generation Mars aerial vehicle advanced power system | Active | 3 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-09-17 | High |
| Small RTGs for Distributed Mars Instruments | Active | 2 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-09-17 | High |
| MERF: Mars Electric Reusable Flyer | Completed | 6 | Robotic Systems | — | 2025-09-17 | — |
| Shared front-end sample processing (SPP) technologies for astrobiology | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-09-17 | — |
| Zero power 244-Cm Sources for Spacecraft Instruments | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center | 2025-09-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Fine-Scale Pixel Element Mapping for Mars, the Moon, and Other Bodies with Miniaturized LIBS | Active | — | Sensing and Perception | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Deployable Infrasonic Sensor Array for Venus Geophysical Studies (DISA) | Completed | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-09-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Lunar Vehicle Active Charge Control System | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Holey Silicon-based Thermopiles for High-Sensitivity Broadband Thermal Detection | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of California-Irvine | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Low-pressure ion mobility spectrometer for in-situ organic analysis | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology | 2025-09-18 | — |
| LASER ABLATION MASS ANALYZER (LAMA) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters | 2025-09-18 | — |
| A Selective High-Resolution Metamaterial Filter for Infrared Spectroscopy | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation | 2025-09-18 | — |
| INSPECT3R: In Situ Nuclear Spectrometer with 3D Resolution | Active | — | In Situ Resource Use | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Compact Electrostatic Dust Analyzer for Measuring Dust Transport on Small Airless Bodies (CEDA) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-09-18 | — |
| Gas Analysis for Life Explorers (GALE) | Active | — | Environmental Monitoring, Safety, and Emergency Response | NASA Headquarters | 2025-09-18 | — |
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