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 148 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atom Interferometry for detection of Gravity Waves-a | Completed | 3 | Navigation Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| AeroDrop: Study of Direct Atmospheric Entry for Secondary Payloads on Aerocapture Missions | Completed | 3 | Architecture Design and Analysis | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Versatile Inverted-Hand Robotic Design for Mobile Manipulation in Space Environments | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit for Space Habitation and Exploration (V2Suit) | Completed | 3 | Vibroacoustics | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Arcjet Modeling | Completed | — | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Passively cooled superconductors in space | Completed | 4 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of a Long-Life 50-kW Class Nested Hall Thruster | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Benchtop Evaluation Capability for Analog Probability Processing Technology | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modeling Oxygen Production on Mars and Extension to a Human-Scale Mission | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Next generation global atmospheric water content observations leveraging Starlink constellation | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro-scale Electrohydrodynamic Thermal and Fluid Management for Advanced On-Board Processing Systems | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electromagnetic Solar Sail Coupling | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Geopolymer and Lunamer Binders as Radioactive Shielding Materials for Space Applications | Completed | 2 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration (Saffire) | Completed | 7 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Towards Validated, Accurate, & Predictive Simulations of High-Speed Particle-Laden Flows, Year 2 | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-resolution Traversability Assessment for Collaborative Surface Navigation, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Passive Radiation Shielding: Integrating Multilayer and Multipurpose Materials into Space Habitat Design | Completed | 3 | Protection Systems | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Extraterrestrial Marangoni Mining | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vibrational Locomotion Enabling Subsurface Exploration of Unconsolidated Regolith, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomy Strategies: Ontology and Implementation | Completed | 5 | Mission Planning and Scheduling | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust Path Planning for Space Exploration Rovers | Completed | 3 | Path Planning | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Temperature‐Modulated Radiative Coatings for Dynamic Thermal Management of Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Astrobotic Software Defined Reliability (ACO-ASDR) | Completed | 6 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development and Characterization of a Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Device Using Torsional Magnetic Reconnection | Active | 2 | Electromagnetic Propulsion | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Low Loss Tapered Fiber Waveguide Modulator for Crew Cognitive State Monitoring (CSM) | Completed | 3 | Behavioral Health and Performance | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra High Temperature and Multifunctional Ceramic Matrix Composite - Coating Systems for Light-Weight Space and Aero Systems | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Towards Real-Time and High-Precision Trajectory Simulation for Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Transitioning from Extent Estimation to Individual Tracking Following an Orbital Break-up Event | Completed | 3 | Orbital Debris Tracking | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pulsar Navigation for Crewed Exploration of the Solar System, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A robust, cell-free production system for on-demand protein synthesis in space | Completed | 2 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nanoengineered Ultra High-Temperature Ceramics for High Strength and Toughness Multifunctional Composites for Space Applications | Active | 2 | Materials for Extreme Environments | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Coherent Thomson Scattering to Investigate Lower-Hybrid Instabilities in the Front Pole Region of a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster | Active | 2 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Planetary Mobile Mining and Scalable In-Situ Water Extraction System for Mars Surface | Completed | 2 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bend-Forming of Large Electrostatically Actuated Space Structures | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3-D Printed Thrust Takeout Structure Challenge, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | Natural- and Induced-Environment Characterization and Mitigation | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Infrared Plasmonic Nanoantennas | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Additive Manufacturing of Novel Transition Metal Boride Material System Resistant to Wear and Corrosion for Lunar and Planetary Exploration, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimizing Carbon Nanotube Composite Performance via Novel Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning Methods | Active | 2 | Computational Materials | Virginia Commonwealth University | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Protein Colloidal Aggregation | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Physics-Informed Machine Learning for the Optimization of Hybrid Rocket Motors | Completed | 2 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Icy-Moon Cryo Environment Penetrating Ice Claw (ICE-PIC) | Completed | 4 | Surface Mobility | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Communication of Robot Status to Improve Human-Robot Collaboration | Completed | 3 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | University of Southern California | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fabrication and Characterization of a Grooved Ring Fuel Element for a Nuclear Thermal Rocket | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Look-down Sensor for Soil Erosion, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of the Fast-Acting, Deep-Throttling Hybrid Motor | Completed | 4 | Hybrids | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions | Completed | 3 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| PIPES: Piezoelectric Instrument for Precision Exploration Sampling | Completed | 3 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | University of Illinois Chicago | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robotics (PUFFER) | Completed | 5 | — | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Liquid-Vapor Diagnostics in Rotating Detonation Combustors for Liquid Rocket Engines | Completed | 2 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
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