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 181 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight Surface Manipulation System (LSMS) AutoNomy capabilities Development for surface Operations and construction (LANDO) | Completed | 5 | Robotic Systems | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Computationally Informed Optimization of Polymer-Coated Microparticles for Reversibly Assembling Materials | Completed | — | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Earth-to-Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Noise Reduction via Entangled Photon Time Correlation | Completed | 3 | Quantum Communications | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nanosized Linde Type A Zeolites Providing Water-Selective Transport Pathways Through Chlorine Tolerant Polymers in Molecular Sieve Nanocomposite (MoSIN) Membranes for Reclamation of Impaired Waters | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Multi-chroic Millimeter-wave Polarization Sensitive Detector Arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Feasibility Study for a 50 K to 4.5 K Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Semantic Mapping and Safe Autonomous Navigation for Intra-Vehicular Robots in Microgravity | Completed | 3 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | University of Pennsylvania | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Stability Analysis of Spacecraft Motion in the Vicinity of Asteroids | Completed | 3 | Dynamics Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space Mission Human Reliability Analysis, Year 1 (HRA) | Completed | 4 | Human Factors Engineering | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ion Mobility Spectrometry for Water Monitoring | Completed | 3 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mechanical Metamaterial Lattices by Direct Methods | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Concepts | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Digital Emulation of NASA Wireless Communications Infrastructure | Completed | 3 | Flight and Ground Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reverse-Ephemeris Lunar Navigation System for Long-Distance Route Determination | Completed | — | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Calorimetry Measurements of Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) Chamber Heat Flux | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low-Cost CubeSat for Active Removal of Sizable Space Debris Utilizing a Mothership Architecture | Completed | 3 | Orbital Debris Mitigation | Turion Space Corp. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| SmartSuit: A Hybrid, Intelligent, and Highly Mobile EVA Spacesuit for Next Generation Exploration Missions | Completed | 2 | Pressure Garment | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Compact Robust Integrated PPM Laser Transceiver Chip Set with High Sensitivity, Efficiency, and Re-Configurability | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | Northwestern University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Certification of Additive Manufacturing Processing Parameters through Physics-Based Predictive Simulation of Process-Defects-Microstructure | Completed | 4 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Catalyst Renewal Electroplating: Demonstration, Investigation, and Testing (CREDIT) | Completed | 4 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel thermal management and life support technologies for planetary spacesuits | Completed | 3 | Portable Life Support System | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Innovative Navigation and Design Strategies Using Dynamical Systems Theory | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Angles-Only Navigation System for Nanosatellites | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Computational Modeling of Thermionic Energy Conversion for Nuclear Electric Propulsion | Completed | 2 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multidimensional Processing and Visual Rendering of Complex 3D Biomedical Images, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mars Roundtrip Success enabled by Integrated Cooling through Inductively Coupled LED Emission (MaRS ICICLE) | Active | — | — | University of California-Los Angeles | 2025-12-18 | — |
| P-ACTIVE (Phase-change material-based actively tunable filter component) | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| SmallSat MagLev Testbed | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Process Optimization for Manufacture of Dimensionally Stable Metal Matrix Composites | Completed | 5 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Onboard Risk-Aware Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithms for Spacecraft Maneuvering | Completed | 3 | Path Planning | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| SPEAR Probe - An Ultra Lightweight Nuclear Electric Propulsion Probe for Deep Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Howe Industries, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| NIMPH: Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester | Completed | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | ExoTerra Resource, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lower the Cost and Complexity of In-Space Propulsion and Transport | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Fiber-Based Microwave to Optical Transducer for High Sensitivity Broadband RF Receiver | Completed | 3 | Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors | University of Illinois Chicago | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propellant and Terrestrial Fuel Production from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro-Avionics Multi-Purpose Platform (MicroAMPP) | Completed | 9 | Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring | Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Perception-Aware Spacecraft Motion Planning | Completed | 3 | Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intelligent Data Understanding for Architecture Analysis of Entry, Descent, and Landing | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Propellants for Scalable, Multipurpose Electrospray Ion Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Atomic Layer Deposition to Enable the Production, Optimization and Protection of Spaceflight Hardware | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Breakage of Sintered Particles for Sample Return on Icy Worlds | Completed | 3 | Sample Handling | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Augmenting a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic-Maxwell (SPFMax) model with sufficient capability to more accurately validate aspects of Magnetic Nozzle Theory. | Completed | 3 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Synthetic Biology Tool Kit for Manned Missions Outside Low Earth Orbit | Completed | 3 | Transformative Health and Performance Concepts | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| VR and AI Immersive Crew Training Solutions for Long-Duration Missions | Completed | — | Training | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Trash to Gas: Trash Preparation and Feed Mechanism | Completed | 3 | Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enhancing the Selectivity and Sensitivity of in-situ Amino Acid Characterization in Search-for-Life Missions | Completed | 3 | Sample Handling | Columbia University in the City of New York | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sutter: Breakthrough Telescope Innovation for Asteroid Survey Missions to Start a Gold Rush in Space | Completed | 4 | Destination Resource Exploration | Trans Astronautica Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Drill Embedded Nanosensors for Planetary Subsurface Exploration | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Vehicles with High Capacity Computational Power Used in Remote Sensing Applications Project | Completed | 7 | — | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Close Proximity Robotic Maneuvering through Flux Pinning Manipulation | Completed | 3 | Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, and Testing of Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture | Cornell University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Deep-Space Optical Navigation, Year 2 | Completed | 7 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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