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 149 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development of a Restartable, Green-Propellant Thruster for Small Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | Earth Storable Propellants | Utah State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid-State Thermionic Power for Human Exploration and Commercial Generation, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Polaris Project: Spaceflight Autonomous Multigenerational Microbial Sequencer (SAMMS) | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Trajectory Construction within Multi-Body Systems via Roadmap Generation | Completed | 3 | Mission Planning and Scheduling | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Innovative Techniques for Micro-scale Additive Manufacturing for Sensors | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Turion Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Mission Concept Study (SSPICY Turion) | Completed | 4 | Orbital Debris Characterization | Turion Space Corp. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Thermo-structurally optimized lattice materials and structures for large-scale space applications | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | University of California-Irvine | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Metal Extraction from Trash via Trash-to-Gas Processing | Completed | 3 | Waste Management | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magneto-Inductive Communications for Ocean Worlds | Completed | 3 | Innovative RF Technologies | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Energy Accommodation from Surface Catalyzed Reactions in Air Plasmas | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Vermont | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Conformal Pinhole-free Metallic Nanofilms for Advanced Particle Fuel Coating by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) | Completed | 4 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Topology Optimization for Additively Manufactured Designs, Accounting for Material Variability, Location and Geometric Dependencies, and the Detection and Repair of Flaws | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Johns Hopkins University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lightweight Multifunctional Planetary Probe for Extreme Environment Exploration and Locomotion | Completed | 3 | Other Entry, Descent, and Landing | SUNY Buffalo State | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dynamically Step Locked Seed Laser for Cross-Cutting SmallSat Water Vapor and Methane DIAL, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | Electronics | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing Highly Multiplexed Detectors for MUSTANG2 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Supersonic Trajectory Optimization | Completed | 3 | Flight Vehicle Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design of Tunable Terahertz Receiver Based on Quantum Cascade Laser | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low Temperature Liquid CO2 Laundry for Logistics Reduction | Completed | 4 | Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| ISRU-Water Electrolysis Trade Study-BAA (WES) | Completed | — | Sample Handling | Collins Aerospace | 2025-12-18 | — |
| NanoTHOR: Low-Cost Launch of Nanosatellites to Deep Space | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Tethers Unlimited Inc | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Oxygen Generation Assembly (AOGA) | Active | 6 | Atmosphere Revitalization | International Space Station | 2025-12-18 | Medium |
| Using Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) to Monitor Water Quality | Completed | 6 | Autonomous Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Faraday Instability: Applications to Pool Boiling | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | University of Florida | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum noise limited heterodyne detector for imaging spectroscopy of protoplanets at l ~ 1 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Secondary Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Low Temperature Environments | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propellant Production Plant (Pro-TP) | Completed | 6 | Propulsion Systems | Blue Origin, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Interplanetary CubeSats: Opening the Solar System to a Broad Community at Lower Cost | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Planning the Motion of a Robotic Assistant for Space Applications | Completed | 3 | Path Planning | Rice University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design of Tungsten-Based Alloys for Printability-Performance Synergy | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mars Transit Vehicle Airlock | Completed | 2 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vacuum Brazed Aluminum Mirror Feasibility Study – Phase 1 | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Investigation of Transient Plasma Processes and Anamlous Electron Transport in Hall Effect Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Novel Hybrid Rotating Detonation Engine Optimized with Aerospike Nozzle for Rocket Applications | Completed | 4 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | The University of Alabama | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3D Printed Electroluminescent Light Panels - FY17 | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Engineering the Adhesion Mechanisms of Hierarchical Dust-Mitigating Nanostructures | Active | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Design Tools for the Optimization of Biologically Based Control Systems | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Case Western Reserve University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Brane Craft | Completed | 2 | Ground Analogs for Space and Surface Systems | The Aerospace Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plant Biomass Leaching for Nutrient Recovery, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrical Impedance Tomography Technolog, Year 1 (EITT) | Completed | 2 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In Situ Resource Utilization in Support of Manned Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optical Transmitter Terminal for Selective RF High Frequency Bans, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| OSAM Logistics Architecture Performance and Cost Estimation | Completed | 2 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dynamic Human-Centered Suit Design: A Computational and Experimental Method | Completed | 3 | Human-System Performance Modeling | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-scale Modeling of Plume-Spacecraft Interactions for Novel Propellants | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Manufacturing Techniques for High Energy Battery Components | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ceramic Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 5 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
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