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 180 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrication, Test, and Evaluation of Annular Ion Optics for Space Propulsion and Materials Processing Applications | Completed | 4 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nano-ADEPT Lifting: Design Development for a Lifting Flight Test Demonstration | Completed | 2 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By | Completed | 3 | State Estimation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| No Moving Part Stirling Power, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Adaptive Control Methods for Soft Robots | Completed | 3 | Execution and Control | Brigham Young University-Provo | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bioinspired Broadband Antireflection Coatings at Long Wavelengths for Space Applications | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | University of Florida | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High turndown ratio heat switch using temperature-dependent magnetic forces | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | Rice University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| NavDev - Next Generation Navigation Capabilities | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Framework for Accurate, Full-Field EDL Environment Reconstruction from Distributed Thermal Measurements | Active | 2 | Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL | University of Maryland-College Park | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Development and Optimization of a Bimodal Ion-Chemical Thruster System Using Novel Ionic Liquid Monopropellants | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Low-Loss Low-Noise Dielectric for Superconducting Microwave Devices | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration (APPLE) | Completed | 2 | Other Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | The Aerospace Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Scalable Membrane-supported IL CO2 capture and removal systems | Completed | 3 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Simplified Adaptive Flight Control for Small UAVs | Completed | — | Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-low power and wearable CO2 sensors, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Breakthrough Long-life High-Isp Hall Thruster Technology With Auxiliary Gas Injection, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum-based Distributed Estimation for Multi-Agent Planetary Exploration | Completed | 3 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Smart Habitat Robotics: Manipulation Technology to Enable Autonomous Uncrewed Habitats | Completed | 5 | Dexterous Manipulation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Subscale Magnetic Nozzle for Fusion Propulsion Plasma Deflection | Completed | 3 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mini Bee Capture Bag for Active Debris Remediation | Completed | 3 | Orbital Debris Mitigation | Trans Astronautica Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optical Mining of Asteroids, Moons, and Planets to Enable Sustainable Human Exploration and Space Industrialization | Completed | 3 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Trans Astronautica Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Luminescence Cryothermometry, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | In-Space Propellant Storage and Use | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The Keystone of Lunar Infrastructure: Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rotary Motion Extended Array Synthesis (R-MXAS) | Completed | 2 | Nondestructive Inspection, Evaluation, and Root Cause Analysis | Leidos Inc | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cyclic Loading of Mouse Vertebra as a Measurement of Bone Quality to Predict Risk of Fracture | Completed | 3 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Large Propellant Tank Cryo-Cooler (LPTC) Project | Completed | 6 | Launch Vehicle Propellant | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization (Arc Mining) | Completed | 2 | In Situ Resource Use | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimizing vegetation management to improve the resilience of the electrical power system to extreme weather | Completed | 4 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | StormImpact Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Study of Detonation Wave Attenuation in Two-Phase Flows | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-Low-Noise FIR Detectors for Space-based Astrophysics | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Adaptable Lunar Lander Solar Array Systems (ALLSAS) | Completed | — | — | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Aqua Factorem: Ultra Low-Energy Lunar Water Extraction | Completed | 3 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | University of Central Florida | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rotorcraft Optimization for Advancement of Mars Exploration (ROAMX) | Completed | 3 | Other Propulsion Systems | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Instantaneous Clarity of Ambient eNvironment Capability (ICAN-C) | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Broad-band Space Structure Tension Damper | Completed | — | Tests, Tools, and Methods | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Novel Navigational Architecture utilizing Joint Doppler and Ranging for Minimal Infrastructure Localization on other Planets | Completed | 3 | Relative Navigation Aids | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spacesuit Evaporator-Absorber-Radiator (SEAR) Project, Year 2 | Completed | — | Heat Rejection and Storage | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Inflation Probe Technologies for the Advanced ACT Experiment | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Outpost Cargo Ferry: A Rapid Cargo Downmass Vehicle | Completed | 3 | Other Exploration Destination Systems | Outpost Technologies Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Advanced Thermal Radiator for Global Lunar Heat Rejection | Completed | — | Heat Rejection and Storage | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radiative heating attenuation through heat shield doping: A multi-scale approach from ab initio to CFD | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mechanoluminescent Materials for Structural Health Monitoring | Completed | 4 | Special Materials | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Variable Geometry Radiators Using Shape Memory Alloys | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High-Fidelity Combustion Modeling for LOX/Methane In-Space Propulsion Systems | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| HELIOS: Heterogeneous Laser Transmitter Integration for Low SWaP | Completed | 3 | Lasers | University of California-Santa Barbara | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Supporting Pre-Phase A Human System Integration for Future Exploration Class Missions | Completed | — | Human-System Performance Modeling | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visual/nlR Light Comm for “Drop-In” Research Systems | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lightweight and Robust Exploration Space Suit (LARESS) | Completed | 4 | Portable Life Support System | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Material response reconstruction of ablative TPS using accurate boundary layer modeling | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Kentucky | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Synthetic Biology and Microbial Fuel Cells: Towards Self-Sustaining Life Support Systems | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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