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 183 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental Setup to Simulate Structure-Property-Process Relationship of Lunar Regolith | Completed | 4 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Navigation Using LiAISON in the Earth-Moon System | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing Advanced Broadband Microwave Detectors for Next-Generation CMB Polarization Studies | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Princeton University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Noise-Driven Proprotor Design for AAM/UAM Vehicles | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Stochastic Optimal Control for Powered Descent Guidance | Completed | 3 | Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Smart Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) | Canceled | 5 | Guidance and Targeting Algorithms | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Automated Robust Maneuver Design and Optimization | Completed | 3 | Ground-Based Maneuvering, Pointing, Stabilization, and Flight Control Algorithms | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimization and Sub-Pixel Resolution for Enhanced hYpersonic Heat-flux Distribution (OSPREY-HD) | Completed | 4 | Ground, Test, and Surface Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Overcoming Cryotank Challenges: Thermoplastic Resins Based on Integrated Computation and Experiment | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Mini Bee Prototype to Demonstrate the Apis Mission Architecture and Optical Mining Technology | Completed | 4 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Trans Astronautica Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deploying Fiber Bragg Gratings for Dynamic Structural Health Monitoring Via a Reusable Rocket Launch Platform | Completed | 6 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-resolution Traversability Assessment for Collaborative Surface Navigation, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Soil conditioning device for ISRU soil preparation and excavation tools | Completed | 4 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visual Odometry for Autonomous Deep-Space Navigation, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Composite Technologies for Exploration (CTE) | Completed | 5 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rapid Reaction Development Demonstration (R2D2) | Completed | 5 | Advanced Commercial-off-the-Shelf Technologies | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated nanophotonic bio/chemical sensor for cryogenic environments | Completed | — | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Data-Driven Modeling and Optimization of Robotic In-situ Consolidation of Thermoplastic Composites | Completed | 2 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spacecraft Formation Dynamics, Design and Control on Quasi-periodic Tori | Completed | 3 | Guidance Algorithms | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design Automation Algorithm for Soft Robots | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Cornell University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Submillimeter Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Component Development for Atmospheric Remote Sensing and Planetary Exploration, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Motion and Pose Estimation for Autonomy of Dynamic/Contact Tasks | Completed | 6 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Monolithic Compliant Space Mechanisms Design Strategies | Completed | 3 | Design and Analysis Tools and Methods | Brigham Young University-Provo | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space Manufacturing from Recyclable Feedstocks | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Situ Electrochemical Production of Propellants from Martian Resources | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Exploring Uranus through Sustained ChipSat/CubeSat Activity Through Transmitted Electromagnetic Radiation (SCATTER) | Completed | 2 | Power Management and Distribution | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nano-Optic Probing of Vibrational Modes of Defects and Color Centers in Semiconductors | Completed | 2 | Special Materials | Vanderbilt University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| LAPS: Lunar Autonomous Positioning System | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Noiseless Near-Infrared Photon Counting Avalanche Photodiode Detectors | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Hawaii Maui College | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propellant Delivery Via VDC Driven Pump, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Proving Water Production out of Mars Analog Soil | Completed | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Tiered Additive Manufacturing (TAM) | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Coating Core-shell Cermets for Nuclear Thrust Propulsion Fuel Protection | Completed | 4 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | The University of Alabama | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Investigating the Thermochemical Response of Avcoat TPS from First Principles for Comparison with EFT-1 Data | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-User Spaceport Umbilical Zero Force Disconnect (ZFD) | Completed | 4 | Deployables, Docking, and Interfaces | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Micro Pulse Detonation Rocket Engine for Nano-Satellite Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Thermal Management of Extreme Heat Fluxes; Innovative Dual-Channel Flow Boiling with Femtosecond Laser Functionalized Metallic Surfaces | Completed | 2 | Heat Acquisition | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Metallic Crystal Defects and Irregular Geometries | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Brigham Young University-Provo | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deployable Solar Array Structures with High Stowed Volume Efficiencies | Completed | 3 | Flexible Material Systems | Brigham Young University-Provo | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Scalable Autonomously Configured Integrated DAQ/Control System, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Site Management for Launches, Tests, and Operations | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Small Satellite Proximity Operations Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bed Development | Completed | 3 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Minimum Torque Propeller Design for Increased Efficiency and Decreased Noise | Completed | 4 | All-Electric Propulsion | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Non-Contact Micron Dust Temperature Measurement | Completed | 2 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimal Electric Field Estimation for Exoplanet Imaging Observatories in Space | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Princeton University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated RF and Optical Communications (IROC) | Canceled | 5 | Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Astropharmacy | Completed | 3 | Transformative Health and Performance Concepts | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of New Dielectric NDE Techniques for Spaceflight Materials | Completed | 3 | Computational Materials | Iowa State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novelty-Driven Onboard Targeting for MSL and Mars 2020 Rovers, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modular Composite Damage Detection System (MCDDS) | Completed | — | Monitoring Technology | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Defect Engineering for More Reliable and Efficient p-type Thermoelectric Materials | Completed | 3 | Heat Sources | Northwestern University | 2025-12-18 | — |
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