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 163 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Spherical Microcapsules for Increased Core Content Volume Delivery | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Understanding Deep Neural Networks Through Attribution and Interactive Experimentation | Completed | 3 | Semantic Technologies | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plasma Based Energy Deposition for Mitigation of Sonic Boom Experiment to demonstrate viability - Wind Tunnel Test, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fluidic Integration of Inkjet Printed Sensors (FLIIPS) | Completed | 3 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| B-Mode AF-315E Propulsion Demonstration | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Chemical Mechanical Planarization technology for innovative superconducting devices and detectors for astrophysics instruments, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Merging Geospatial Data into a User-Friendly Application to Support Sustainable Development, Year 2 | Completed | 7 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low-Thrust Trajectory Design in Multi-Body Environments Through Patched Periodic Orbits | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Control and Deployment of Science Instrument Payloads for Tensegrity Robots | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimization of Device Geometry for Rotating Detonation Engines | Active | 2 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers for 3D Integrated Circuits, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Establishing a Quantitative Relationship Between Ion and Pulsed-Laser Induced Single Event Soft Errors in Advanced Semiconductor Devices | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Vanderbilt University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Catalytic Conversion of Waste Plastic to Hydrogen | Completed | 4 | Waste Management | Cecilia Energy | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro Additive Manufacturing, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bio-functionalization of Titanium (Ti) by Amine Groups for Advanced Materials Development | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Generating Durable Gaskets from the Byproduct of ECLSS Bosch Reaction | Completed | 2 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mobile Platform Development for SSC Propulsion Test Operations, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Telerobotic Perception during Asteroid and Mars Regolith Operations, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nanoporous Cyclic Brush Polymers for Selective Carbon Dioxide Capture | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dynamic Control of Radiative Surface Properties with Origami-Inspired Design | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Brigham Young University-Provo | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Using the Solar Spectrum to Convert the Mars Atmosphere into Fuel with Novel Photocatalysts, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Superconducting Parametric Amplifier for Ultra-low Noise DSN Ka-band Receiver, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Electronics | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Engine System Integration and Analysis | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Assessment of Potential Martian Simulants from South Dakota Feedstocks | Completed | 2 | In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Prediction of Safety Incidents, Year 2 | Completed | 8 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mesoscopic distinct element method-enabled multiscale computational design of carbon nanotube-based composite materials | Completed | 4 | Computational Materials | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reusable Communication Infrastructure for Small Satellites | Completed | 3 | Radio Frequency | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magnetic Field Requirements for Controlling the location of an Electric Arc in Supersonic Flow | Completed | — | Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lightweight Free-Climbing Robots for Extreme Terrain Exploration | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Near Net Shape Technology (ANNST) - Integrally Stiffened Cylinder (ISC) | Completed | 6 | Sustainable Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Real-time predictive modeling of Hall effect thrusters for thruster performance estimation and optimization | Completed | 2 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Prandtl Propeller: Design Process, Verification and Testing, Year 1 | Completed | — | Flight Performance and Analysis | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dual Gate Field Effect Transistors as Electrical Sensors for Vapor-Phase Chemicals | Completed | 3 | Electromagnetic Environment Effects | University of Utah | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low-T, Low-Q Cryocoolers for Science Instruments | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The Microwave Assisted Composite Manufacturing and Repair (MACMAR) | Completed | 5 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dust Mitigation for Lunar Bearings | Completed | — | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intra-Vehicular Robotic System Analysis and Design | Completed | — | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Telerobotic Perception during Asteroid and Mars Regolith Operations, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrolyte with Ultra-High Salt Concentration | Completed | 3 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Experimental Demonstration and System Analysis for Plasmonic Force Propulsion | Completed | 2 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | University of Missouri-Columbia | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Kinetic Integrated Thermal Protection System (KnITPS) | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Systems | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Integrated Thermal Solution for Hypersonic Wing Leading Edge Applications | Completed | — | Heat Rejection and Storage | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Engineering Concept Design and Assembly in VR Program, Year 1 | Completed | 5 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development and Characterization of a Novel Additive Manufacturing Technology Capable of Printing Propellants with High Solids Loadings | Completed | 3 | Solids | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Employing Experimental and Analytical Methods to Understand the Ultrasonic Spot Welding Process for Thermoplastic Polymers to Guide Joint Design | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intelligence in Motion: Re-embodiment, Trust, and Failure in Human-Robot Interaction | Completed | 3 | Distributed Collaboration and Coordination | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Health Monitoring of Future Space Infrastructure Using Embedded Material Sensing Systems | Completed | 3 | Mechanical Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Maneuverable Automated Tethered Spacecraft (MATS) Simulator | Completed | 3 | Small-Body and Microgravity Mobility | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ice Plume Capture for Ocean World Life Detection | Completed | — | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Accelerated Computational Design of Multifunctional Polymeric Materials with Machine Learning Dynamics | Completed | 3 | Computational Materials | Harvard University | 2025-12-18 | — |
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