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 156 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FFRE Afterburner | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spacecraft Rendezvous Techniques for Multi-Body Gravitational Environments | Active | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Silicon and Iron Regolith Extraction on the Moon (SIRE) | Completed | 5 | Destination Resource Exploration | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| ISRU of Recycled Thermoplastic and Lunar Regolith as Composites for Lunar Habitats | Completed | 4 | — | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Chemical Mechanical Planarization technology enabling higher performance detectors, multiplexers, and microwave devices for astrophysics missions, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| CO2 Breathing Ramjet Propulsion for Planetary Exploration Applications | Completed | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Compact Microtube Igniter for Methane Rockets | Completed | 5 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mobility in the Small Body Environment: Close Proximity Landing and Surface Dynamics | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-scale Analysis of Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet Laminates for Space Radiator Applications Using NASMAT | Completed | 2 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Utah State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space/On-Surface 3D Printing of Sodium-Ion Batteries Using In-Situ Resource Utilization Materials (SIBatt-3D) | Completed | 5 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| MoBall: An Energy-Harvesting & Self-Propelling Spherical Sensor Platform | Completed | 3 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Frequency Selective Reflector Antenna | Completed | 3 | Innovative Antennas | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Moon Medicine: Blood Staining and Novel Miniaturized Imaging Technology to Facilitate Critical Lunar Diagnosis YEAR 3 | Completed | 7 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Technology Readiness Level Elevation of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) for Outer-Planetary in situ Organic Analysis | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| mSTAR | Completed | 6 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrostatic Coating for Lunar Space Suit | Completed | 3 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Outpost Cargo Ferry: A Rapid Cargo Downmass Vehicle | Completed | 6 | Other Exploration Destination Systems | Outpost Technologies Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Progressive Failure Analysis and Plasma Etch Studies | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Aggregating Proteins and Amyloid Fibers | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intelligent MTconnect Eddy-Current Valve Probe Pilot Project within the High Pressure Gas Facility (HPGF) Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator Systems | Completed | 6 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultralow Density Aerogel Mirrors | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| EGO-xO: Nanosats for Advanced Gravity Mapping and Crosslink Occultation | Completed | 5 | — | Geo Optics, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A New Experiment for Determining Evaporation and Condensation Coefficients of Cryogenic Propellants and Development of an Efficient Computational Model of Cryogenic Film Stability in Microgravity | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Michigan Technological University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Upper-Atmospheric Space and Earth Weather Experiment Element, Year 1 | Completed | 6 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3D Printing Heat Shields, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rapid Process Development of Aerospace Alloys using Small Punch Test | Completed | 3 | Computational Materials | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Game Changing Transformable Entry System Technology (TEST) Applicability to Robotic Venus Science Missions, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Hypersonic Decelerators | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Medical Operations (AMO) | Completed | 4 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Learning the Electron Density Fields Predicted by Density Functional Theory Using Physics-Inspired Machine Learning Approaches | Completed | 3 | Computational Materials | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Novel Electrolytes for High-Energy Lithium Metal Batteries Operating at Ultra-Low Temperatures | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | University of California-San Diego | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimizing Materials for Energy Harvesting on Interplanetary Return Missions | Completed | 3 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Innovative Health Monitoring Techniques for High Temperature Composites | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Phase-Space Mapping and Navigation for Spacecraft Operations in Extreme Orbital Environments | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Illumination Invariant Terrain Relative Navigation | Completed | 3 | Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| New Class of Bimodal NTP/NEP with a Wave Rotor Topping Cycle Enabling Fast Transit to Mars | Completed | — | Solar Thermal Propulsion | University of Florida | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-efficient Micropatterned Variable Emissivity Coatings Engineered for Extreme Environments | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The Impact of Particle-Laden Flows on Planetary Entry Aerothermodynamics | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Demonstration of a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector (SNSPD) with a flight-like 1 K cooling system | Completed | 5 | Detector Development | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Data Anomaly Detection System | Completed | 3 | Environment Testing | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reducing Risk and Increasing Exploration Payoff with Symbiotic Rover Pairs | Completed | 3 | Management and Control | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator - NuSil (PICA-N) | Completed | 5 | Simulation | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Self-Cleaning Boudouard Reactor for Full Oxygen Recovery from CO2 | Completed | 5 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Granular Metamaterials and Periodic Structures for Protection from High-Velocity Impacts | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Flight Research of Hyperelastic Materials, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust 3D Modeling via Neural Radiance Fields | Completed | 3 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propellant Delivery Via VDC Driven Pump, Year 1 | Completed | — | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Scale-Up of Thermal Runaway Resistant Li-Ion Battery Cases, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Focal plane wavefront estimation for space mission coronagraphs. | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-Gbps Spatial Mode-Diversity Coherent Optical Receiver | Completed | 5 | Innovative Signal Modulations | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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