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 139 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Survivable Distributed Motor Controller (CSDMC) | Completed | 4 | Dexterous Manipulation | — | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Large-Area, High-Efficiency Diffractive Optics for Solar Imaging | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Microshutters for Far-IR KID Array Characterization | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| NextSTEP Hybrid Life Support System (HLSS) | Completed | 4 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Sierra Nevada Corporation | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Spectroscopic Lidar for Orbital Measurement of Surface Volatiles | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Advancing Simultaneous Multi-Angle Hyperspectral Imaging into Thermal Infrared | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Developing a Novel Method to Bond Planetary Regolith to Form Rigid Structures for Space Based Habitats | Completed | 1 | Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems | University of Mississippi | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Comm and Nav Crosslink Topology Design and Optimization including DSMs | Completed | 2 | Adaptive Network Topology | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| QuEST Laboratory: Advanced Laser Cooling for High-brightness Cs Atom Sources (QuEST) | Completed | 1 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Deep Throttling Monopropellant Engine | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems for Landing | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Towards Scientific Autonomy: Applying Machine Learning to MOMA Science Data | Completed | 4 | Learning and Adaptation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Lunar InfraRed (imaging) (LunIR) | Completed | 6 | Destination Resource Exploration | Lockheed Martin Space Systems | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) | Completed | 9 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Morpheus Vertical Test Bed (VTB)/Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) | Completed | 4 | Touchdown Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Avionics and Software Project (A&S) | Canceled | 6 | Integrated Flight Operations Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Stress Testing and Hardening the NAS for Safe, Efficient, and Resilient Growth | Active | 1 | Safe All-Vehicle Access | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-02 | High |
| FY18-C1 GRC: Approaches to rapid prototyping of polymer aerogels | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| WFF Ground Safety Team Artificial Intelligence Discovery; To Support Higher Volume Launch Tempo | Completed | 3 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Wallops Flight Facility | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Lunar mGNSS Receiver (mGNSS) | Active | 8 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | Low |
| Ion Velocity Spectrometer for Solar Wind Monitor (IVS) | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Space Communications and Navigation Testbed (SCaN Testbed) | Completed | 8 | Reliability and Sustainment | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Long-Path OH Absorption Measurement | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Graphene based Photonics Devices for Remote Sensing Applications Project | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) | Completed | 3 | Special Materials | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cubesat Compatible Digital Back-End and Low-Noise Front-End for P-band Signals of Opportunity Remote Sensing | Completed | 4 | Electronics | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Ultra-high Efficiency Noiseless Quantum Sensors for HWO and QIS | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) from Space | Completed | 6 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Secure and Safe Assured Autonomy (S2A2) | Completed | 3 | Safe All-Vehicle Access | North Carolina A & T State University | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Environmentally stable ultraviolet broadband coatings for improved astronomical instrumentation | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Digital Array Gas filter Radiometer Passive Methane Sensing Instrument (DAGR) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Terabyte Infrared Delivery 200Gb/sec Laser Communications System for LEO Direct-to-Earth Missions (TBIRD) | Completed | 5 | Optimetrics | NASA Headquarters | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Thermally Stable Nanocrystalline Nickel Alloys by Powder Metallurgy | Completed | 1 | Smart Materials | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Development of Improved Combustor Scaling Laws for Dual-Mode Ramjets (AAVP33) | Active | 3 | Ramjet/Scramjet | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-02 | High |
| Ion Mass Spectrometers for GIRAFF Sounding Rocket Opportunity (IVMS) | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) | Completed | 7 | Disruption Tolerant Networking | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| High Pressure Transcritical Combustion (HPTC Combustion) | Completed | 2 | Aero Propulsion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| ILLUMA-T On-Orbit | Completed | 8 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| An Advanced Optical Navigation Camera for Autonomous Navigation, Guidance, and Control | Completed | 3 | Navigation Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Miniaturized UHF radio for direct-to-orbit comm | Completed | 4 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Common Habitat for Long Duration Transit and Surface Operations | Completed | 2 | Human-System Performance Modeling | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Development of a modeling technology to use heliophysics data in GEOS (MLT-GEOS) | Completed | 3 | Science Modeling | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| SmallSat Common Electronics Board (SCEB) | Completed | 5 | Other Flight Computing and Avionics | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| MWIR Linear Variable Filter for Planetary Hyperspectral Imaging | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Bigelow Expandable Activity Module Project (BEAM) | Completed | 9 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Improved UHF capabilities using medium gain antennas | Completed | 3 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Maturation of Thermal InfraRed (IR) and Submillimeter-Wave (Submm) Polarimetry for Ice Cloud Remote Sensing | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Lunar Dust level Sensor and Effects on Surfaces (LDES) | Active | 6 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-02 | Medium |
| Shape Memory Alloy Material Maturation (SMA) | Active | 2 | Surface Mobility | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-02 | High |
| Subscale Magnetic Nozzle For Fusion Propulsion Plasma Deflection | Completed | 2 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-02 | — |
| TM Monitor and Control System (TMACS) | Completed | 1 | Mission Operations and Safety | Wallops Flight Facility | 2025-12-02 | — |
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