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 164 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lattice Reinforced Regolith Concrete for Lunar Infrastructure | Completed | — | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Piezoelectric Washer for Accurate Application of Bolt Preload | Completed | 4 | Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Large Shell Hard X-Ray Multilayer Development | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Long Life Miniature Hall Thruster Enabling Low Cost Human Precursor Missions | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Southern California | 2025-12-18 | — |
| National Robotics Initiative (NRI) | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Convergent High-Order Compact WENO Discontinuity Capturing with Positivity Preserving for Unstructured Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes | Completed | 1 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| X-Ray Diffractive Optics | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Computational Design of Nanomaterials by Pattern Replication | Completed | 3 | Computational Materials | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visible-Light-Responsive Catalyst Development for VOC Remediation, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Self-Sensing Thermal Management System Using Multifunctional Nano-Enhanced Structures | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Safe Multi-agent Autonomous Planning & Scheduling (SafeMAPS) | Completed | — | Mission Planning and Scheduling | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Biologically-derived Immunosorbent Nanoparticles for Deep Space Pharmacological Life Support Systems | Completed | 3 | Long-Duration Health | University of California-Davis | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust Free Space Quantum Key Distribution | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Structures Dynamic Analysis and Testing Capability for Supporting Store Separation Research | Completed | 6 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust Guidance and Control of Spacecraft with Large Thruster Errors | Completed | 3 | Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of optics and microwave multiplexers for far-IR and millimeter detector arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Cornell University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated LOX / LCH4: A Unifying Technology for Future Exploration, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3D Solid State Battery | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Goggle based Visual Field Device for SANS | Completed | 5 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Scalable Cellular Infrastructure Technology (SCI-Tech) | Completed | — | Lightweight Concepts | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-Safe Electrolytes for High Energy Density Batteries for Lunar Exploration & Habitats | Completed | — | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Accurate On-Orbit Spectral Calibration of Next Generation Nanosatellite Sensors | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Leveraging the Radiation-Resistance and Power Efficiency of Nano-Magnetic Logic to Develop More Affordable, Efficient, and Reliable Space Technologies | Completed | 3 | Impact, Damage, and Radiation-Resistant Systems | University of South Florida-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dynamics Analysis of Origami-Folded Deployable Space Structures with Elastic Hinges | Completed | 3 | Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Near-term quantum computing for applications | Completed | 3 | Quantum Computer | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An MMOD Risk Mitigation Technology for Spacecraft TPS | Completed | 2 | TPS Instrumentation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radioisotope Thermoradiative Cell Power Generator | Completed | 2 | Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Transonic Flutter Aerodynamics | Completed | 4 | Aerodynamics | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor for Small Satellites, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intelligent Landing System (ILS) | Completed | 5 | Touchdown Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Suborbital Laser Beam Welding Flight Experiment | Completed | 5 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advancing 3D Volumetric x-Ray imaging for Engineering Quality Assurance, Human Safety, and Quantitative Resource Assays for In-Space Use (“First xCT in Space”) | Completed | — | Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Starburst: A Revolutionary Under-Constrained Adaptable Deployable Structure Architecture | Completed | 3 | Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Lightweight, Electrically Conductive, Multi-functional Textiles and Composites | Completed | 2 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Characterization of Separation Events in High-Speed Flows | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Compact Astrometric Alignment Sensor and Navigation System for Precision Formation Flying | Completed | — | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust Optimization of Spacecraft Trajectories using Statistical Thruster Failure Models | Completed | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fast and widely-tunable mid-IR laser spectrometer for lunar landers | Completed | — | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Thermal Mining Approach for Extraction, Transportation, and Condensation of Lunar Ice | Completed | 5 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Superconducting Parametric Amplifier for Ultra-low Noise DSN Ka-band Receiver, Year 2 | Completed | — | Innovative RF Technologies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi (Asteroid) | Completed | 3 | Mission Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Supportability | Trans Astronautica Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Approximation Assisted Robust Design Optimization of Aerospace Systems | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Evaluation of Surfactant-stabilized Nanocrystalline Metallic Materials | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Thermo-mechanical Optimization for Optical Instruments: Multidisciplinary Design of 3D Printed Graded Metal Structures, Year 1 (GMS3D) | Completed | — | Reliability and Sustainment | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-Low Noise Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra Long-Lived, Self-Surveying Autonomous Air Quality Sensing, Year 3 | Completed | — | Monitoring Technology | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Parachute Canopy Instrumentation Package, Year 2 (PCIP) | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum Dot Spectrometer, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ignition Susceptibility of Additive Manufactured Inconel 718 in Oxygen by Subsonic and Supersonic Particle Impact | Completed | 4 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Siri-Like Smart Crew Assistant, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | Maintainability and Supportability | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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