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 152 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correlated Electromagnetic Levitation Actuator (CELA) ) | Completed | — | Control Force and Torque Actuators | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| High Altitude Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems | Completed | 4 | Prevention and Countermeasures | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| A Passive fuel-Cell Surface power System (PaCeSS) | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Johnson Space Center |
| Development of Advanced Detonation Modeling Methods for Hydrocarbon Propellants, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management | Stennis Space Center |
| Generation of Chemical Commodities and Fertilizer from ISS and ISRU Water Brines Using Combined Ion Exchange and Electrodialysis | Completed | 4 | Water Recovery and Management | Kennedy Space Center |
| Multispectral Imaging, Detection and Active Reflectance (MiDAR) | Completed | 5 | — | Ames Research Center |
| Soft Magnetic Alloy Printing for Propulsion Enhancement | Completed | 2 | Solids | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Understanding Liquid Hydrogen Critical Heat Flux via Optical Imaging | Completed | 2 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Washington State University |
| Developing High-Performance Bioinspired Surface Textures for Repelling Lunar Dust | Active | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | University of Arkansas |
| Electrochemical Hydrogen Refrigerator | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Kennedy Space Center |
| HyperSTEP: Hypersonic Entry Test Platform | Completed | 3 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Johnson Space Center |
| Autonomous Guidance and Control System for Deployable Entry Vehicles (Project Pterodactyl) (Project Pterodactyl) | Completed | 5 | Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing | Ames Research Center |
| Visual Radar, Year 1 | Completed | 5 | — | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Augmented Reality to Enhance Crew Medical Training Project | Completed | — | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Johnson Space Center |
| Characterization of Lunar Polar Volatiles for Curation and ISRU, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | Launch, Recovery, and Reuse | Johnson Space Center |
| Aerospike Nozzle for Rotating Detonation Engine Application | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Characterization and Preservation of Lunar Polar Volatiles for Sample Return and ISRU, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Johnson Space Center |
| Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes for Spacecraft Thermal Control | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | Rice University |
| Performance Characterization of Alternative Hypergolic Propellants | Completed | 3 | Gels | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Carbon and Boron Nanotube Growth on Lightweight Substrates, Year 2 | Completed | 1 | — | Glenn Research Center |
| 3D Printed Magnetic-to-Non-Magnetic Gradient Alloy Cold Encoder Shafts for Prediction and Control of Magnetic Permeability, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | Tests, Tools, and Methods | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| EVA Machine Learning Prototype | Completed | — | Intelligent Data Understanding | Johnson Space Center |
| Compact and LWIR-Augmented WARS (CLAW) | Completed | 7 | Thermal Management Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Gas Giant Atmospheric Probe OML for Controlled Flight Study | Completed | 2 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Altitude Simulation Environments Test System (ASEnTS) | Completed | 3 | Environment Testing | Glenn Research Center |
| Aperture: A Precise Extremely large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements | Completed | 2 | Mirror Systems | Northwestern University |
| Development of a Novel Process for Refractory Metal Powder Production | Active | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Highly Thermally Conductive Insulator Boron Nitride Nanosheets (BNNS) Nanocomposites | Completed | 4 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Glenn Research Center |
| Wireless Instrumentation Development in Flight | Completed | 6 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Deployable Rotor Energy Storage | Completed | 3 | Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center |
| Development and Flight-Testing of a High-Performance Electric-Pump Fed Launch Vehicle | Completed | 8 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Ventions, LLC |
| Simulation of Neutron Spectra for Lunar Prospecting, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Glenn Research Center |
| Solid State Thermionic Power, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center |
| Augmented Control of Rocket Diffuser Boundary Layer Separation | Completed | 4 | — | Stennis Space Center |
| Spyder: Critical Technology Demonstration Tests | Completed | 8 | — | UP Aerospace, Inc |
| Portable Knee Dynamometer | Completed | — | — | Johnson Space Center |
| Enzymatic Life-Detection Sensor | Completed | 3 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center |
| Novel Particle Approaches for Modeling Electrospray Propulsion Concepts | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Quiet Fan Technology for Deep Space Missions, Year 1 | Completed | 6 | Aeroacoustics | Johnson Space Center |
| Preignition Behavior and Combustion Stability of Storable Propellants for Deep Space Missions | Completed | 3 | Earth Storable Propellants | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Print-Assisted Photovoltaic Assembly (PAPA) | Completed | 4 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission | Completed | 4 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Space Studies Institute |
| Mars Li-CO2 Batteries | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center |
| Nitric oxide Infrared Cooling Emissions CubeSat - NICEcube | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Langley Research Center |
| In Situ Polymerization via Environmentally-Borne Initiation Stimuli | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Evaluation of a Photon Sieve for Lidar Application, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Langley Research Center |
| Fire Watch: Prediction and Detection of Wildfires Through Advanced AI/ML | Completed | 6 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | — |
| Subsonic Test for Ingesting Non-Uniform Gradient Airflow and Boundary Layer Experiment (STINGABLE) | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Design of a Secondary Volatile Release & Storage ISRU System | Completed | 4 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Kennedy Space Center |
| Development of Corrosion-Resistant Molecular Sieve Inclusion Nanocomposite (MoSIN) Membranes to Recover Water from Urine through Osmotic Processes | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Arizona State University-Tempe |
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