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 147 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Oxygen Generation Assembly (AOGA) | Active | 6 | Atmosphere Revitalization | International Space Station |
| Using Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) to Monitor Water Quality | Completed | 6 | Autonomous Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Faraday Instability: Applications to Pool Boiling | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | University of Florida |
| Quantum noise limited heterodyne detector for imaging spectroscopy of protoplanets at l ~ 1 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Development of Secondary Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Low Temperature Environments | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Propellant Production Plant (Pro-TP) | Completed | 6 | Propulsion Systems | Blue Origin, LLC |
| Interplanetary CubeSats: Opening the Solar System to a Broad Community at Lower Cost | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Planning the Motion of a Robotic Assistant for Space Applications | Completed | 3 | Path Planning | Rice University |
| Design of Tungsten-Based Alloys for Printability-Performance Synergy | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Mars Transit Vehicle Airlock | Completed | 2 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | — |
| Vacuum Brazed Aluminum Mirror Feasibility Study – Phase 1 | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Investigation of Transient Plasma Processes and Anamlous Electron Transport in Hall Effect Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| An Novel Hybrid Rotating Detonation Engine Optimized with Aerospike Nozzle for Rocket Applications | Completed | 4 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | The University of Alabama |
| Understanding newly discovered oscillation modes in magnetically shielded Hall thrusters utilizing state of the art high speed diagnostics | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Western Michigan University |
| Biomechanics for Enhancement & Verification of Countermeasure Analysis Tools for Human Exploration Missions | Completed | 3 | Design and Analysis Tools and Methods | University of South Florida-Main Campus |
| 3D Printed Electroluminescent Light Panels - FY17 | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Engineering the Adhesion Mechanisms of Hierarchical Dust-Mitigating Nanostructures | Active | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Development of Design Tools for the Optimization of Biologically Based Control Systems | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Case Western Reserve University |
| Brane Craft | Completed | 2 | Ground Analogs for Space and Surface Systems | The Aerospace Corporation |
| Remote Laser Evaporative Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy Sensor System | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo |
| Plant Biomass Leaching for Nutrient Recovery, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center |
| Electrical Impedance Tomography Technolog, Year 1 (EITT) | Completed | 2 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Kennedy Space Center |
| In Situ Resource Utilization in Support of Manned Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Optical Transmitter Terminal for Selective RF High Frequency Bans, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center |
| OSAM Logistics Architecture Performance and Cost Estimation | Completed | 2 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center |
| Dynamic Human-Centered Suit Design: A Computational and Experimental Method | Completed | 3 | Human-System Performance Modeling | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Electrospraying for Precision Delivery of Water and Nutrients for Aeroponics in Microgravity | Completed | 3 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Kennedy Space Center |
| Multi-scale Modeling of Plume-Spacecraft Interactions for Novel Propellants | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Advanced Manufacturing Techniques for High Energy Battery Components | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center |
| Ceramic Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 5 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | — |
| Electro-Optical Technology Development In Liquid Crystal Beam Steering (E-OpTICS) | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Langley Research Center |
| High-efficiency Photonic Waveguide-Integrated Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors: Towards Quantum Communications-on-a-Chip | Completed | 3 | Quantum Communications | Glenn Research Center |
| Extreme Environment Wear Testbed for Materials Discovery for Lunar Dust Tolerant Applications | Completed | 3 | Materials | Langley Research Center |
| Electrostatic and Electrochemical Optimization of Electrospray Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Leveraging Dynamical Instabilities to Design Efficient Mission Trajectories | Completed | 3 | Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Evaluating the Impact of Design-Driven Requirements Using SysML | Completed | 3 | V&V of Software systems | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration (BREEZE) | Completed | 2 | Lightweight Concepts | SUNY Buffalo State |
| Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Nanohmics, Inc. |
| Initial Steps Towards the NASA PowerSail | Completed | 3 | Solar Sails | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Complementary Flyover and Surface Exploration of Planetary Destinations Where 3D Detail Matters | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Carnegie Mellon University |
| NEMS Oscillators as Sensors and Actuators: Understanding the Mechanical Properties of Nanoresonators and Their Applications for Molecular Sensing | Completed | 3 | Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors | University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras |
| Ubiquitous Wide-Bandwidth Quantum-Noise-Limited Amplifiers for Weak Signals in the 1 GHz to 1 THz Frequency Range, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Unlocking Memory Metal Power Generation & Energy Conversion, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | Heat Sources | Stennis Space Center |
| Reactive Nano Scale Emulsions for High Performance Hybrid Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| An open-source instrument to characterize large-scale stratospheric turbulence | Completed | 3 | Atmospheric Mitigation | Ames Research Center |
| Additive Construction for Mobile Emplacement (ACME) | Completed | 5 | In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Spin Deployed Electrostatic Sail Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) Testbed | Completed | 2 | Measurement and Control | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Photonic-integRated-circuit Integrated reconfigurable Meta-optical Elements (PRIME) | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center |
| A Titan Sample Return Using In-situ Propellants (Titan) | Completed | 3 | In Situ Resource Use | Glenn Research Center |
| Air-Carbon Boundary Layer Chemistry for Hypersonic Ablation | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Colorado Boulder |
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