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 154 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
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| Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for High-Data-Rate Deep-Space Optical Communication | Completed | 3 | Detector Development | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Photophoretic Propulsion Enabling Mesosphere Exploration | Completed | 3 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spaceflight Oculometric System for Mars Astronaut Robust Surveillance (SOS4MARS) | Completed | 6 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Additively Manufactured Ceramic Rocket Engine Components | Completed | 6 | — | HRL Laboratories, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Assembly of Solar Array Modules by a Team of Robots, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development and Testing of Autonomous On-Orbit Assembly and Servicing Systems Using the SPHERES Testbed | Completed | 3 | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantitative Dual-Band IR Thermography for Global Temperature Measurements | Completed | 2 | Test Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Tendon-actuated Structural Modules for Enhanced Segmented Aperture Reflectors | Completed | 2 | Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Controllable Combustion of Metal Fuels for Space Power Systems | Completed | 4 | Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multiphysics Integrated Modeling of Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welding | Completed | 4 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rover Technologies | Completed | 6 | Surface Mobility | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated tapered active modulators for high efficiency Gbps PPM laser transmitter PICs | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Assessing the Feasibility of Using Co-electrolysis to Concurrently Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water into Methane and Oxygen for Propellant and Life Support on Mars | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Miniature Multimodal Imaging System for Medical Diagnostics and Interventions in Space | Completed | 3 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | University of Akron Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Microlithography Fabricated Attenuators for X-Ray Detectors | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-thin diffractive lenses for next-generation earth radiation budget instruments | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum-based Distributed Estimation for Multi-Agent Planetary Exploration | Completed | 3 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated Photonics for Adaptive Discrete Multi-carrier Space-based Optical Communication and Ranging | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | University of California-San Diego | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Direct Thrust Measurements of Electrostatic Sail Tethers | Completed | — | Electrostatic Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Health monitoring of future space infrastructure using embedded material sensing systems, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Mechanical Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Correlated Electromagnetic Levitation Actuator (CELA) ) | Completed | — | Control Force and Torque Actuators | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Altitude Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems | Completed | 4 | Prevention and Countermeasures | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Passive fuel-Cell Surface power System (PaCeSS) | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Advanced Detonation Modeling Methods for Hydrocarbon Propellants, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multispectral Imaging, Detection and Active Reflectance (MiDAR) | Completed | 5 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Soft Magnetic Alloy Printing for Propulsion Enhancement | Completed | 2 | Solids | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Understanding Liquid Hydrogen Critical Heat Flux via Optical Imaging | Completed | 2 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Washington State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing High-Performance Bioinspired Surface Textures for Repelling Lunar Dust | Active | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | University of Arkansas | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrochemical Hydrogen Refrigerator | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| HyperSTEP: Hypersonic Entry Test Platform | Completed | 3 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visual Radar, Year 1 | Completed | 5 | — | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Augmented Reality to Enhance Crew Medical Training Project | Completed | — | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Characterization of Lunar Polar Volatiles for Curation and ISRU, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | Launch, Recovery, and Reuse | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Aerospike Nozzle for Rotating Detonation Engine Application | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Characterization and Preservation of Lunar Polar Volatiles for Sample Return and ISRU, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes for Spacecraft Thermal Control | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | Rice University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Performance Characterization of Alternative Hypergolic Propellants | Completed | 3 | Gels | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Carbon and Boron Nanotube Growth on Lightweight Substrates, Year 2 | Completed | 1 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| EVA Machine Learning Prototype | Completed | — | Intelligent Data Understanding | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Compact and LWIR-Augmented WARS (CLAW) | Completed | 7 | Thermal Management Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Gas Giant Atmospheric Probe OML for Controlled Flight Study | Completed | 2 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Altitude Simulation Environments Test System (ASEnTS) | Completed | 3 | Environment Testing | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Aperture: A Precise Extremely large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements | Completed | 2 | Mirror Systems | Northwestern University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of a Novel Process for Refractory Metal Powder Production | Active | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 2025-12-18 | High |
| 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 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Wireless Instrumentation Development in Flight | Completed | 6 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deployable Rotor Energy Storage | Completed | 3 | Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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