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 174 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous Navigation for Exploration on Icy Moons | Completed | 4 | Robot Navigation and Path Planning | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ionic Fluid Optics for the Next Great Science Flagship | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dynamics of Low Velocity Landings on Moons of the Outer Solar System | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mechanically dynamic nanocomposite aerogels using cellulose nanocrystals | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Generative Design of Thermal Management Strategies for In-Space Detonation Propulsion assessed by Laser Absorption Spectroscopy | Completed | 2 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Simulated Inspection Mechanics for Artificial Intelligence Defect Detection (SIM-AID) | Completed | 2 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Situ Water Vapor Probe for a Robot Arm-Mounted, Compact Water Vapor Analyzer | Completed | 3 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Nuclear Fuels for More Capable and Sustainable Exploration | Completed | 3 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Arc Jet Exposure of Ablative and Non-Oxide CMC TPS for Planetary Probe and Sample Return Applications | Completed | 5 | — | The Boeing Company | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radiation Tolerant, High Capacity Non-Volatile Memory | Completed | 3 | High-Performance Memories | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Particle Impact Simulation and Ignition Prediction Year 1 of 3 | Completed | 5 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Super Micro-Cool: Forced Boiling in a Micro-channel Pumped Fluid Loop | Completed | 4 | Heat Transport | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mid Infrared Laser Sources for Remote Sensing, Year 4 | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Post-Processing-Free 3D Printing for Low Mass, Multifunctional Polymer Composites | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Innovative High Fidelity Multidisciplinary Computational Framework for Parachute Inflation Dynamics | Completed | 4 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cryogenic Tesla Valve | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A New Ablative Heat Shield Sensor Suite | Completed | 4 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust Optimal Control of Spacecraft Translational-Rotational Coupled Motion under Uncertainty | Active | 2 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Borescope Artificial Intelligence (BAI) | Completed | 6 | Propulsion Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Automating Task Network (TN) Generation with Goal Dictionaries, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Reasoning and Acting Technologies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Material Degradation During the Stressed Oxidation of CMCs | Completed | 3 | Materials for Extreme Environments | University of California-Santa Barbara | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment (PHLOTE) | Completed | 3 | Above-Surface Mobility | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Large Area Topological 2D Materials for Spintronics and Energy Efficient Electronics | Completed | 3 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Yale University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Capability in Space | Completed | — | Sample Handling | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plant-Based Robotics Systems (PBRS-ACO ) | Completed | 6 | Other Robotic Systems | Lockheed Martin Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Anti-Phase Vortex Reduction Control for Rotor Noise Suppression | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Repeatability Evaluation of Direct-Write Printing on Flexible and Three-Dimensional Geometries, Year 4 | Completed | 3 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Organics and Biological Scanner (OrBis): Standoff, fast, large area line scanner for non-destructive, sensitive, detection of biological and organic materials | Completed | 3 | Planetary Protection | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrochemical membrane reactors for in-situ resource utilization of wastewater in space | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Logistics Reduction: Advanced Clothing System (ACS) (LR-ACS) | Completed | 4 | Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Correlated Electromagnetic Levitation Actuator, Year 2 | Completed | 2 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pluto Hop, Skip, and Jump | Completed | 3 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Global Aerospace Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Raising the Technical Readiness of Germanium Immersion Gratings for a Space-based High-resolution Infrared Spectrometer | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Improvements and Optimization of Analytical Guidance Laws for Low-Thrust Trajectory Design | Completed | 3 | Relative Navigation Aids | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modeling and Development of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors | Completed | 3 | Detector Development | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Precision Spectroscopic Calibration and Next-Generation Millimeter-Wave Spectrometers | Active | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Chicago | 2025-12-18 | High |
| 3-D Printed Thrust Takeout Structure Challenge, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat | Completed | 2 | Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Polymide Aerogel as Wire Insulation | Completed | 6 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Boron/Graphite Hybrid Composites | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rad-Tolerant Neuromorphic Processor (RTP) | Completed | — | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Physics-informed Modeling of Multi-nozzle Plume Physics with Quantifiable Uncertainties from Supersonic Retropropulsion Tests | Completed | 4 | Supersonic Retropropulsion | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rapidly Deployable and Robust Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Structural Materials | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Physics-Based Numerical Models for Uncertainty Quantification of Selective Laser Melting Processes | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing Processes | University of California-Davis | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propagation Controlled Solid Fuel-Oxidant Reactions for the Generation of Harvestable Heat | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | University of Central Florida | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Time-Synchronized Beacons for Relative UAV Position Determination | Completed | 2 | — | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radiation Pressure on Tunable Optical Metamaterials for Propulsion and Steering without Moving Parts | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Concepts | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nanocoatings for Wicking of Low Viscosity Cryogens, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solar Surfing | Completed | 3 | Thermal Protection Materials | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
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