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 150 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electro-Optical Technology Development In Liquid Crystal Beam Steering (E-OpTICS) | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High-efficiency Photonic Waveguide-Integrated Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors: Towards Quantum Communications-on-a-Chip | Completed | 3 | Quantum Communications | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Extreme Environment Wear Testbed for Materials Discovery for Lunar Dust Tolerant Applications | Completed | 3 | Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrostatic and Electrochemical Optimization of Electrospray Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Leveraging Dynamical Instabilities to Design Efficient Mission Trajectories | Completed | 3 | Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Evaluating the Impact of Design-Driven Requirements Using SysML | Completed | 3 | V&V of Software systems | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration (BREEZE) | Completed | 2 | Lightweight Concepts | SUNY Buffalo State | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Nanohmics, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Initial Steps Towards the NASA PowerSail | Completed | 3 | Solar Sails | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Complementary Flyover and Surface Exploration of Planetary Destinations Where 3D Detail Matters | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Unlocking Memory Metal Power Generation & Energy Conversion, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | Heat Sources | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reactive Nano Scale Emulsions for High Performance Hybrid Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An open-source instrument to characterize large-scale stratospheric turbulence | Completed | 3 | Atmospheric Mitigation | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Additive Construction for Mobile Emplacement (ACME) | Completed | 5 | In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spin Deployed Electrostatic Sail Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) Testbed | Completed | 2 | Measurement and Control | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Photonic-integRated-circuit Integrated reconfigurable Meta-optical Elements (PRIME) | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Titan Sample Return Using In-situ Propellants (Titan) | Completed | 3 | In Situ Resource Use | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Air-Carbon Boundary Layer Chemistry for Hypersonic Ablation | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deep Space Radiation Effects on Inflatable Habitat and Spacesuit Materials, Year 1 (MRAD) | Completed | 4 | Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) | Completed | 6 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers for 3D Integrated Circuits, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cold Plasma Cleaning and Disinfection of Produce and Surfaces, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space Rated Plasma Generating Power Supply Development | Completed | 4 | Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visual Radar, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Navigation Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bioremediation of Microgravity Biofilms and Water Processor Health | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low-Thrust Many-Revolution Trajectory Optimization | Completed | 3 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| EM Acoustic Transducers and Eddy Current Testing for NDE of Welds in Space | Completed | 3 | — | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plasma Deflection and Detachment Methods in a Pulsed Magnetic Field | Completed | 3 | Electrothermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Temperature Contactless RF Probing of Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC) Devices | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum-cascade metasurfaces for THz semiconductor lasers and amplifiers | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The Regolith Biters: A Divide-And-Conquer Architecture for Sample Return Missions | Completed | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Metal Matrix Composites for On-orbit and On-surface Services in Extreme Space Environment, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Materials for Extreme Environments | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Gandalf Staff Mobile Tool for Lunar Exploration YEAR 2 | Completed | 5 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lightweight Deployable Integrable Antenna (LiDIA) | Completed | 3 | Innovative Antennas | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magnetic Active Radiation Shielding System Using Helmholtz Coil Lattices | Completed | 1 | Protection Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Composite Conductor Power Cable Tether | Completed | 2 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Regenerative Ammonia Recovery from ISS Wastewater to facilitate Plant Growth, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Characterization of Slosh Dynamics Applied to In-Space Propellant Storage, Management, and Transfer | Completed | 3 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Florida Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Self-Cleaning Boudouard Reactor, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of an Adaptive Second-Order Time Discretization Algorithm for Unsteady Flow Analysis using Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program (GFSSP) | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Laser Assisted Manufacturing Processes for Spaceflight Applications | Completed | 5 | Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cryogenic Reservoir Inventory by Cost-Effective Kinetically Enhanced Technology (CRICKET) | Completed | 2 | Destination Resource Exploration | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space Suit Composites (SSC) | Completed | — | Portable Life Support System | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Closed-loop physics-based manipulation under uncertainty | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pulsar Navigation for Crewed Exploration of the Solar System, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Collaborative Mixed-Reality Engineering Tool, Year 3 (MRET) | Completed | 6 | Simulation-Based Training and Decision Support Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Model Development and Experimental Validation of Reactive Gas and Pyrolysis Product Interactions with Hot Carbon Chars | Completed | 4 | Thermal Protection Systems | University of Kentucky | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fluid Fitting Torque Guidance | Completed | 3 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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