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 157 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miniaturized Waveguide Fourier Transform Spectrometer | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Radioluminescent Tritium Material for High Visibility Applications | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enabling Neptune Aerocapture by Enhancing TPS Performance with Thermal Barrier Coatings | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Systems | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Augmented analysis and data collection for materials design and evaluations | Completed | 1 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Temperature tunable solar blocking etalon filter for space-based water vapor differential absorption lidar | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Condition Matched Radiant Testing (CMaRT) | Completed | 2 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| MINERVA: Using Small, Fully Robotic Telescopes to Search for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets | Completed | 3 | Distributed Aperture | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Armstrong Flies on Mars, Titan, and Venus: Simulation capability development to facilitate UAV exploration of other planets | Completed | 3 | Autonomous Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Wavelength Division Multiplexing with 2-D PPM for Optical Space Communications | Completed | 3 | Optimetrics | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Detectors for Hard X-ray Imaging Velocity Tomography of Supernova Remnants | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultrasonic Teeth for Lunar Bucket Excavation | Completed | 2 | Destination Resource Exploration | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| VESsel GENeration Analysis Software | Completed | — | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Holographic Projection of Structured Beams of Light for Target Ranging, Remote Velocimetry, and Sample Acquisition | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Variable property fluids for dynamic environments | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spallation Effects in TPS Models | Completed | 2 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Kentucky | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Wind Tunnel Flow-Through Balance Capability for Human Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Testing | Completed | 6 | Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design, Fabrication, and Control of a Robotic Gripper Powered by Compliant and Self-Sensing Twisted String Actuators | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | University of Nevada-Reno | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrating Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials and Molecular Dielectrics for Radiation-Hard Non-Volatile Memory | Completed | 3 | Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations | Northwestern University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modular Magnetic Mobile Manipulators for Microgravity Environments | Completed | 3 | Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility | University of Utah | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Science-Enabling Atmospheric Entry at Venus | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum Illumination for Secure Space Communications | Completed | 3 | Quantum Communications | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Laser Source for Atomic Gravity Wave Detector | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Liquid Crystal Elastomer Membranes and the Wrinkling Instability | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Power Transmitter Technologies for Ultra Wideband Multi-Function RF Operation | Completed | 3 | Innovative RF Technologies | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reusable Feedstock Materials Using Polymer-Coated Microparticles for In-Space Manufacturing | Completed | 4 | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Polaris Project: Tall Lunar Tower (TLT) | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Patterned Magnetic Hold/Release Phase 2.5 | Completed | 4 | Flight Vehicle Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A High dV Miniature Ion Thruster for SmallSat Primary Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Southern California | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advancement of Planetary Protection to Complete Biologic Inventory via Cryo-Electron Microscopy (EM) | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Improving the Fidelity of General Flexible Multibody Dynamic Simulations | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| X-ray Optics for Wide Field-of-View X-ray Imaging | Completed | 5 | Electronics and Optics Manufacturing Processes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Incoherent Laser Thomson Scattering Experiments for Predictive Hall Thruster Modeling | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Metallic Environmentally Resistant Coating Rapid Innovation Initiative (MERCRII) | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated Submillimeter‐Wave InP HBT Electronics for Atmospheric Radiometry | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| SPEAR Probe - An Ultra Lightweight Nuclear Electric Propulsion Probe for Deep Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Howe Industries, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Molecular simulation aided design of textured cooling loops minimizing Kapitza resistance for high power density space applications | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Hydrogen Plasma-Enhanced Reduction for ISRU of Oxygen Natives (HYPERION) | Active | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Machine Learning to Improve Friction Stir Welding Quality | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Silicon Carbide Power Components for NASA Lunar Surface Applications | Completed | 5 | Distribution and Transmission | Vanderbilt University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing a multi-scale understanding of the kinetics of dehydration and rehydration in a model cellular food system | Completed | 3 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Harvard University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| PLANET: Planner-in-the-Loop Assistant for Novelty Extraction and Targeting | Completed | 3 | Mission Planning and Scheduling | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spacecraft Architecture Aide (SPAIDE) | Completed | 4 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Passively-Coded Embedded Wideband Microwave Sensors for Material Characterization and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) | Completed | 3 | Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors | Iowa State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Towards Validated, Accurate, & Predictive Simulations of High-Speed Particle-Laden Flows, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Prandtl Propeller: Design Process, Verification and Testing, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | Aerodynamics | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro-cathode Arc Thruster PhoneSat Experiment | Completed | 6 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro-scale modeling of ablative thermal protection systems during atmospheric entry | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| ISRU-based 3D printed solid Polymer electrolyte for Na-ion batteries (ISPOLYTE) | Completed | 3 | Energy Storage | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multiscale Modeling to Enable Physics-Based Simulations of Plume-Surface Interactions with Quantified Uncertainty | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Silent, Solid-State Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles | Completed | 3 | All-Electric Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
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