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 139 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY18-C1 GRC: H2O Electrolysis with Impure Water Source | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Glenn Research Center |
| Utilizing Bosch Generated Carbon for Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 1 | Logistics Management | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| FY17 IRTD Flammability and Corrosion Testing of Lightweight Magnesium Alloys for Mass Reduction and Radiation Mitigation in Spacecraft Applications | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Kennedy Space Center |
| Atoms to Aircraft to Spacecraft (A2A) | Completed | 2 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | University of South Carolina-Columbia |
| Advancing Particle Tracking Techniques Using Novel Silicon Photomultipliers Designs | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| New polarization capabilities for the the McPherson VUV reflectometer | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Additively Manufactured Advanced Space Engines (AMPT) | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| SWaP-efficient, fast-wavelength-steering and time-division-multiplexing lidar technology capable of multi-beam ranging and concurrent hyper-spectral imaging (CASALS) | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Long-duration independent gondola attitude sensor package for shock and termination measurements (DINGO) | Completed | 3 | State Estimation and Monitoring | Wallops Flight Facility |
| FY17 GRC: Testing Power Systems for Venus | Completed | 3 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Glenn Research Center |
| FY17 GRC: Activation of Hydrocarbon Fuel Qualities and Fuel reforming via High-Voltage Non-equilibrium Nanosecond Pulsed Plasma | Completed | 2 | Turbine-Based Combined Cycle | Glenn Research Center |
| Noise-free Cryogenic Cooling Systems | Canceled | 1 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| EUV Doppler Imaging for CubeSat Platforms | Completed | 4 | Observatories | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| ElectroHydroDynamic (EHD) | Completed | 4 | Heat Transport | Glenn Research Center |
| Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project: Variable-Speed Power Turbine Technology Demonstration | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Langley Research Center |
| MACROS: Molecular Analyzer for Complex Refractory Organic-rich Surfaces | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie |
| Development of High Contrast Lenslets for Integral Field Spectroscopy | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Balloon Platform for Ultra-Low-Background Spectroscopy | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Surface irregularity and spectral characterization of UV enhanced lithium fluoride, aluminum tri-fluoride, and magnesium fluoride coatings | Completed | 4 | Planetary Protection | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Degradation of Vitro-Lube after environmental exposure (Tribology Testing) | Completed | 1 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Enabling Autonomous Differential Drag Control and Attitude Maneuvering Using Onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) for SmallSat Distributed Space Missions (DSMs) | Completed | 5 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Lunar Flashlight | Completed | 5 | Destination Resource Exploration | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Fabrication of Amorphous Metallic Glass in Space (FAMIS) | Completed | 2 | Special Materials | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| HCAAM VNSCOR: Virtual Assistant for Spacecraft Anomaly Treatment During Long Duration Exploration Missions | Completed | 4 | Human Factors Engineering | Johnson Space Center |
| Additive Construction of Spaceport Infrastructure (Water Tank) - FY19 IRTD | Completed | 4 | Mission Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Supportability | Kennedy Space Center |
| Textural Pattern Recognition for Life Detection (TPR) | Completed | 1 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Fuzzing Flight Software: A "Black Hat" Approach to Software Testing | Completed | 6 | Tools and Methodologies for Software Design and Development | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Far-ultraviolet coating enhancement of digital micromirror devices for use in multi-object spectrographs | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| High precision relative position sensing system for formation flying spacecraft | Completed | 4 | Distributed Aperture | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Development of a Transition-Edge Sensor Anti-Coincidence Detector for a Probe Class Mission | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Wideband Imaging Submillimeter Heterodyne Spectrometer (WISHeS) | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| On-Board Limb-based Shape Modeling of Asteroids and Comets | Completed | 3 | Modeling and Simulation for Flight | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Mars Biosignature Extractor (MABEX) | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Distributed Systems Mission (DSM) Inter-satellite Communication Solutions (inter-satellite links, OMA) | Completed | 7 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Innovative Uses for MET Technology: MET Particle Detector (MPD) | Completed | 2 | Other Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| A Complete, Throwable, Lunar Volatiles Sensor | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Swarm Transmit and Receive Amplifier Systems | Completed | 5 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Assessing Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Future Missions | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Two Spectrometers on a Chip | Completed | 1 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology |
| Development of material properties of lnconel, titanium, and nickel alloys for process optimization of selective laser melting additive manufacturing | Completed | 1 | Computational Materials | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Investigation, Development and Demonstration of an SN Fast Forward Service for User Initiated Services (UIS) (SNFF) | Completed | 7 | Information Assurance | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Combining “Printed” Strain Gauges and Laser Measurements of Miniscule Sensor Displacements to Determine Upper Atmosphere Properties | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Cool Flames | Completed | 2 | Other Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | University of California-San Diego |
| FY18 IRTD Instrumentation Ring (IR) for Cryogenic Operations | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | Kennedy Space Center |
| Compressive Sensing Architecture Study for Measuring Ice Topography | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) | Completed | 5 | Radio Frequency | Glenn Research Center |
| Miniaturized P-band RADAR Transceiver | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Mission Concept Maturation for the Next-generation Spaceflight Laser Altimeter Mapping Mission | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| AI/ML-assisted Universal Discovery in Roman Light Curves | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Advanced Space Suit Project (formerly Extravehicular Activity Suit/Portable Life Support System) | Completed | 3 | Logistics Management | Johnson Space Center |
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