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 168 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pellet-Beam Propulsion for Breakthrough Space Exploration | Completed | — | Solar Thermal Propulsion | University of California-Los Angeles | 2025-12-18 | — |
| CREW HaT: Cosmic Radiation Extended Warding using the Halbach Torus | Completed | 3 | Protection Systems | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modulating Retro-Reflectors: High-speed Asymmetric Laser Communications with Low-Fidelity Pointing Requirements (Phase II): Testing and Risk Reduction, Year 2 | Completed | 6 | Innovative Signal Modulations | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Arc Heater Simulator (ARCHeS) Toolkit | Completed | — | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Operating on Hydrocarbon Fuel | Completed | 2 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Electrode Material Synthesis and Testing for Molten Regolith Electrolysis | Completed | 2 | In Situ Resource Use | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Minimum-Fuel Supersonic Test Trajectories | Completed | 7 | Trajectory Design and Analysis | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vastly Improved Search for Interstellar Asteroids, Year 1 | Completed | — | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Knudsen-Pump-Based Propulsion for Atmospheric and Martian Exploration | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Terahertz Heterodyne Spectrometer for In Situ Resource Utilization (THSiRU) | Completed | 5 | Destination Resource Exploration | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sweeping Arrays for Film Cooling, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| SonicSonde: Instrumentation for a Tethered Atmospheric Sensor Suite System, Year 3 | Completed | 7 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Wing -Tip Vortex Sensor Studies for Formation Flight for Drag Reduction | Completed | 4 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design of Laser Communications Module for Small Satellites | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solar System Escape Architecture for Revolutionary Science (SSEARS) | Completed | 3 | Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Station Explorer for X-Ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) | Completed | 7 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced 1.65 Micron Seed Laser for LIDAR Remote Sensing of Methane (Seed Laser) | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Freedom Photonics, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enhanced Ground Control for ISS Robotics | Completed | 8 | Autonomous, Real-Time Command and Control | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Gaseous Helium Compressor for In-Space and Surface Pneumatic System Resupply | Completed | 3 | Infrastructure Optimization | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Evaluation of Optical Distortion Measurement Techniques for Curved Optical Surfaces | Completed | 4 | Test and Qualification Environments | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) | Completed | 6 | Optimetrics | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Demonstration of an Ultra-Low Divergence Angle Gridded Ion Thruster | Completed | 3 | Electromagnetic Propulsion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| New Control Algorithm Development of Fast Steering Mirrors for Picometer Line-Of-Sight | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Scalable Self-Assembling Spacecraft / Satellite Structure System (S6) | Completed | 4 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space Assembly of Perovskite Solar Cells for Very Large Arrays: Space power at terrestrial costs | Completed | 4 | Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Evaluation of Carbon Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels Fabricated using Ionic Liquid Epoxies | Completed | 6 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Revolutionary Deployable Optics | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Acidic Aerosol Separator Apparatus (ASA) For Venus Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (VAMS), Year 1 | Completed | 3 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Medium-scale deployment and technology maturation of game changing usage of the US high-voltage power transmission grid as a space weather antenna | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Assistive Free-Flyers with Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Appendages for Automated Logistics in Space | Completed | 4 | Grappling Technologies | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sensitive, selective nanoantenna-based biosensor platform for compact, in-situ exo-life detection and astronaut life support | Completed | 4 | Sample Acquisition and Handling | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Crystal Shielding for Space Radiation | Completed | 2 | Protection Systems | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Plasma Aerocapture and Entry System for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | MSNW, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Patterned Magnetic Hold-Separate Tech Ph2 | Completed | — | Separation Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Material Systems and Methodologies for Transient Thermal Management, Year 1 (RPT & CIF) | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nuclear Propulsion and Power Non-Nuclear Test Facility: Preliminary Analysis and Feasibility Assessment Project, Year 1 (NP2NTF) | Completed | 5 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) Nozzle | Completed | 3 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Conceptual Design and Concept of Operations for Intermittent Short-Radius Centrifugation for Artificial Gravity | Completed | 3 | Transformative Health and Performance Concepts | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Life Support Systems: Oxygen Generation and Recovery | Active | 4 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | Medium |
| Swarm Flyby Gravimetry | Completed | 3 | Above-Surface Mobility | Johns Hopkins University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Concentrated Solar Regolith Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Colorado School of Mines | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Metal Matrix Composites for On-orbit and On-surface Services in Extreme Space Environment, Year 1 (MOOSE) | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Astrophysics and Technical Study of a Solar Neutrino Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management | Wichita State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lunar Surface VR/ARGOS Trainer | Completed | 7 | Simulation-Based Training and Decision Support Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enabling Sustained Presence Using Recyclables (ESPUR) | Completed | 4 | Special Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deep Network Radiative Transfer: A Revolution in Imaging Spectrometer Atmospheric Correction, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Coherent Search of Multi-Detector Gamma-ray Data | Completed | 2 | Science, Engineering, and Mission Data Life Cycle | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cavehopping Exploration of Planetary Skylights and Tunnels | Completed | 3 | Below-Surface Mobility | Astrobotic Technology, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Power Electric Propulsion (HPEP) | Completed | 5 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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