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 185 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Control for Plant Growth Chambers in Microgravity | Completed | 3 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Passive Charge Dissipating Work Function Matching Coating for Reducing Adhesion of Lunar Dust | Completed | 2 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Microbes Eating Rocket Propellant Hypergols (MERPHs) | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid State Energy Conversion for Deep Space Power | Completed | 3 | Heat Sources | Tufts University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Specific-impulse Electrospray Explorer for Deep-space (HiSPEED) | Completed | 5 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fail Operational Capabilities for Caretaking & Utilization Scenarios (FOCCUS) | Canceled | 6 | Dexterous Manipulation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sub-Pixel Inter-Satellite Imagery Cross-Calibration via Image Decomposition and Dynamic Filtering | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | Cornell University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Achromatic Phase Shifting Mask for High Performance PIAA Coronagraphy | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | University of Arizona | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing a Model of a Multispecies Biofilm under Microgravity | Completed | 3 | Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Broad Bandwidth Metamaterial Antireflection Coatings for Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Mobile Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) Light Detection and Radar (LiDAR) System for Lunar Surface Terrain-Mapping and Navigation | Completed | 4 | Network-Provided Position, Navigation, and Timing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space Manufacture of Storable Propellants | Completed | 3 | Earth Storable Propellants | Deep Space Industries, Inc. | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Flexible Electrostatic Tools for Capture & Handling, Year 2 (FETCH) | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Computationally Efficient Framework for 3D Flow-Coupled Radiative Calculations | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Precision Cleaning Robot | Completed | 4 | Planetary Protection | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Thermal History Mapping Technology for Turbine Engine Diagnostics | Completed | 3 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Investigation of a Fiber Optic Strain Sensing (FOSS) Distributed Load Calibration Methodology | Completed | 4 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ionic Polyimides: New High Performance Polymers for Additive Manufacturing - FY17 | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Innovations in Understanding and Modeling Cryogenic Propellants for Long-Duration Spaceflight | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Silicon Carbide (SiC) Quantum Sensor Networks | Completed | 3 | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Robust and Efficient GNC Algorithms for Autonomous Formation Flying using Electric Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Onboard Maneuvering, Pointing, Stabilization, and Flight Control Algorithms | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Terrain Adaptive Reconfiguration of Mobility | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Comparison of Two Low-Dimension Manifold Combustion Models for Nonpremixed Supersonic Combustion | Completed | 3 | Rocket-Based Combined Cycle | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Engineering Concept Design & Assembly in VR Program Follow-on, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | Environment Testing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Visual Positioning System for the Formation Flying of Suborbital Vehicles and Spacecraft | Completed | 3 | High-Fidelity Simulation and Visualization | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Green Propellant Thruster Technology Qualification (ACO: ATK) | Completed | 5 | — | Orbital ATK Space Systems Group | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-lightweight Core Materials | Completed | 6 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Subterranean Mobility for Autonomous Lava Tube Exploration (SMALTo) | Completed | 3 | Below-Surface Mobility | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Tortuosity Carbon Dioxide Conversion Device for CO2 Reduction into useful products for Life Support Systems | Completed | 5 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Human Performance Metrics for Spacesuit Evaluation | Completed | 3 | Human Factors Engineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Molecular Dynamic Simulation of High Thermal Conductivity Synthetic Spider Silk for Thermal Management in Space | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lightweight Materials and Structures | Completed | 5 | — | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Compact Guide Star Sensor for Precision Inertial Alignment | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Technology Assessment and Modelling of Three-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells for in-Space Utilization | Completed | 3 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novelty-Driven Onboard Targeting for MSL and Mars 2020 Rovers, Year 1 | Completed | — | Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Encapsulation Technology for Delivery of Medical Therapeutics | Completed | 2 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Extreme Environment Solar Power (EESP) | Completed | 5 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Day/Night Lunar Rover Obstacle Avoidance and Localization (LunarNav) | Canceled | 5 | State Estimation | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ion Optics Development for Reduced Ion Beam Divergence | Completed | — | Electrostatic Propulsion | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fluorescent Microbeads for Tuning the Local Light Availability in High Density Algae Photobioreactors | Canceled | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Microwave AeroGel Volatile Collector (MAGVC) Aerogel and Microwave Radiation Study | Completed | 4 | Ground, Test, and Surface Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3D Printing of Dense Regolith Suspensions for Construction and Weatherability at Ultra-low Temperatures | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Tunable Product Selectivity on Nano-engineered Protonic-Ceramic Electrocatalysts for In-Situ Resource Utilization | Active | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Columbia University in the City of New York | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Interdisciplinary Development of Advanced Aerocapture Guidance Algorithms using High-Fidelity Physics Modeling | Completed | 2 | Hypersonic Decelerators | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Conformal Ablative TPS (CA-TPS) | Completed | 6 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Wireless Flight Sensor System | Completed | 3 | Wireless Avionics Technologies | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Control of Statically Unstable Systems with Actuator Nonlinearities | Completed | 3 | Flight Performance and Analysis | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| ECAPS - Eddy Current Approach and Proximity Satellites | Completed | 4 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| To the plumes of Enceladus and elsewhere: developing miniature electrochro-matographic monolithic columns for the in situ analysis of extraterrestrial organic molecules and biomarkers | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
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