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.
What's active and early-stage — where getting involved could matter →
21,172 projects harvested so far — page 159 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trajectory Design and Targeting for Applications to the Exploration Program in Cislunar Space | Completed | 3 | Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Generative Design of Additively Manufactured Tanks for Small Spacecraft Propulsion Systems | Completed | 2 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Computational Framework for Predicting the Combined Effects of Porosity, Surface Roughness, and Microstructure on the Fatigue Performance of Metal Additively Manufactured Parts | Completed | 2 | Design and Certification Methods | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Drop Media Interactions and Demisting in Microgravity | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Portland State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| LTD Based Materials Formulation and Degradation (Thor's Hammer) | Completed | — | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enceladus Vent Explorer | Completed | 3 | Below-Surface Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum Dot Spectrometer, Year 2 | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Repurposable Structural Composite Utilization (ReSCU) Materials, Year 2 | Completed | — | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Long-life High-Isp Hall Thruster Technology With Auxiliary Gas Injection, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrodynamic Regolith Conveyor | Completed | 4 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modeling human performance degradation from radiation exposure and physiological responses to spaceflight during long duration missions | Completed | 3 | Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Monocular SLAM for Smart SPHERES | Completed | 3 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| RECOP: Lightweight Regenerable CO2-to-Power Conversion System for Safer Manned Missions | Completed | — | Atmosphere Revitalization | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Astronaut Devices and Wearables For Situational Awareness and Robotic Interaction | Completed | 3 | Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Feasibility Study of a Magnetic Suspension System for Testing the Dynamic Stability of Blunt Bodies in NASA GRC’s 225 square centimeter Supersonic Wind Tunnel | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Case Western Reserve University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mycotecture off Planet | Completed | 3 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lunar Escape - Backup Ascent Abort from the Lunar Surface (for Crew Risk Reduction) | Completed | 3 | Mission Planning | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modern Estimation Techniques and Optimal Maneuver Targeting for Autonomous Optical Navigation around Small Bodies | Completed | 3 | Guidance Algorithms | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Leveraging Opportunity for Detector Based on New Physics of Gain | Completed | — | Optical Components | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocean Worlds (SPARROW) | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vibrational Locomotion Enabling Subsurface Exploration of Unconsolidated Regolith, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Powder Fuel System Development for Hybrid Propulsion and Power | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reducing Cost of Space Photovoltaics via Sound-Assisted Substrate Reuse | Completed | 5 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Crystal Sonic, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Resource ingesting soft robotic skins for in situ regolith sampling | Active | 2 | Dexterous Manipulation | Yale University | 2025-12-18 | High |
| As Needed Radiation Shielding - System In Package Radiation Shielding | Completed | 5 | Protection Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Co-Operative Blending of Autonomous Landing Technology (COBALT) | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Use of the Operational Air Quality Monitor (AQM) for In-Flight Water Testing | Completed | 4 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radar Hazard Identification for Planetary Landers D Stage 2 | Completed | 6 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nanofabrication of High Temperature Superconducting Josephson THz Mixers, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Starfish Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Mission Concept Study (SSPICY Starfish) | Completed | 4 | Orbital Debris Characterization | Starfish Space, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Minimal Representation State Estimation of Rigid/Flexible Structural Elements for Autonomous Assembly and Servicing of Lunar Surface Assets | Completed | 2 | Modularity, Commonality, and Interfaces | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Variable Conductance Radiator for CO2 Deposition in Deep Space Transit | Completed | 3 | Atmosphere Revitalization | University of North Texas | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Additive Manufacturing of Wear-Resistant Novel Transition Metal Boride Material System for Lunar Exploration | Completed | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spectral Mass-Gauging of Unsettled Liquid With Acoustic Waves | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Laser Thompson Scattering Investigation of Plasma Oscillations in Hall-Effect Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout for High Altitude Missions | Completed | 3 | Electronics | University of California-Santa Barbara | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced measurements in flows with high-temperature particulate and gas products | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems for Landing | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Wildfire Mitigation through Explainable Risk Predictions | Completed | 4 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Terrafuse, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Making quantum computers less noisy and more useful | Completed | 3 | Ground Computing | Michigan State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Irradiance Peltier Operated Tungsten Exo-Reflector (HI-POWER) | Completed | 3 | Thermal Protection Systems | Howe Industries, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Compact Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (C-EUVI) | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quasi-1 Dimensional Modeling of Rotational Detonation Engines | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low-Mass Planar Photonic Imaging Sensor | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| On-Orbit, Collision-Free Mapping of Small Orbital Debris | Completed | 2 | Orbital Debris Tracking | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Situ Resource Utilization | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mini Impactor Sensors for Lunar Geotechnical Arrays | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Planetary Anchoring Using Local Material (Regolith) Sintering | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of a High Fidelity Solar Sail Dynamics Model | Completed | 3 | Solar Sails | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit | Completed | 3 | Prevention and Countermeasures | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator II (HIAD2) | Completed | 7 | — | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
lastUpdated date for the project. "Recently harvested" instead sorts by when we pulled the record into our database, which clusters within the initial harvest window and is far less meaningful — prefer "Recently updated (NASA)".curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/nasa-tech-projects/api?q=laser&status=Active&sort=trl&page=1"Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.