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 187 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission | Completed | 2 | Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT) | Completed | 3 | Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Smart Quick-Disconnect for Lunar Robotics | Completed | — | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of 2D and 3D transient electro-thermal computational models to predict the radiation failures in SiC-based Schottky diodes and power field-effect transistors (FETs) | Completed | 4 | Computational Materials | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Onboard Adaptive Safe Site Identification System, Year 2 (OASSIS) | Completed | 4 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A Frequency Stabilized Master Laser System for the ASCENDS Mission | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sensitive end-effector design for spiny attachment onto frangible substrates in extreme underwater environments | Completed | 3 | Grappling Technologies | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Identifying science opportunities and technology options for the Granular Imager | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Iodine Hall Thruster System Components | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radioisotope Positron Propulsion | Completed | 2 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Positron Dynamics | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nonlinear Millimeter-Wave Interactions with Emulated Blackout Plasmas | Completed | 1 | Launch and Reentry Communications | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Exo-Brake Development: Parachuting Small Payloads in a Single-Stage from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spaceflight Dietary Intake - there's (soon) an App for that! | Completed | 6 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Direct hydrogenation of CO2 to ethylene | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A direct probe of dark energy interactions with a solar system laboratory | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Training for Long-Term Spaceflight | Completed | 6 | Training | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Diamond-like Coating Assessment for Reduction of Thruster Erosion (DCARTE-ACO) | Completed | 5 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Space Systems/Loral, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| The AstroNet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots | Completed | 3 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plasma Production of High Purity Hydrazine and Oxidizer | Completed | 3 | Chemical Space Propulsion | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Economical Access to Space, Year 2 | Completed | 5 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| BioLEAD: BioLogical Exploration via Autonomous Detection | Completed | 4 | Monitoring Technology | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Microfluidic Extraction of DNA for Identification of Unknown Organisms in Microgravity | Completed | 4 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Passively Expanding Dipole Array for Lunar Sounding (PEDALS) | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Human-Robot Collaboration on Complex Tasks | Completed | 3 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | Brown University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Swab-to-Sequence: Real-time Data Analysis Platform for the Biomolecule Sequencer | Completed | 5 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| 3D Printing Heat Shields, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Anti-Microbial and Self-Cleaning Properties of Photocatalytic Surface Treatments and their Potential Use for Space-Based Applications, Year 2 | Completed | 7 | Planetary Protection | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of High-Performance Ammonia Borane Based Rocket Propellants | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Heavy-Lift 3rd Gen Mid-Air Retrieval | Completed | 2 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advancement of Additive Manufacturing for Monopropellant Catalyst Beds | Completed | 3 | Earth Storable Propellants | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra Long-Lived Autonomous Air Quality Sensing, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| An Evaluation of the Influence of Residual Stress on Additively Manufactured Materials through Fatigue Crack Growth Analysis | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | University of California-Davis | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Safety-Constrained and Efficient Learning for Resilient Autonomous Space Systems | Completed | 4 | Learning and Adaptation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Free Space Optical Communications for Nanosats | Completed | 4 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric VEnus Sensors (LEAVES) | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | Ohio Aerospace Institute | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nondestructive Evaluation of Adhesive Bond Strength by Ultrasonic Phase Measurements | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Crosscutting High Apogee Refueling Orbital Navigator for Active Debris Removal (CHARON) | Completed | 3 | Capture Mechanisms and Fixtures | MSNW, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Metasurfaces for Segmented Aperture Coronagraphs, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Plasma-Based Elemental Analyzer for Crewed Transit and Planetary Habitation | Completed | 4 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Chip-Scale Low-Noise Optoelectronic Synthesizer for the EHF-Band | Completed | 4 | Optimetrics | University of Southern California | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Calcium-based Battery Development for Space Technology Applications | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ask-the-Expert: Minimizing human review for big data analytics through active learning | Completed | 4 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Automatic Specialization of Modular Robot Limbs | Completed | 3 | Modularity, Commonality, and Interfaces | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Locating and Identifying Lunar Volatiles using Heat and Mass Transfer | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Colorado School of Mines | 2025-12-18 | — |
| New Stagnation Arc Jet Model Design for Testing ADEPT 3-D Carbon Cloth | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Heat exchange-driven aircraft for low altitude and surface exploration of Venus | Completed | 3 | Other Propulsion Systems | Planetary Science Institute | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lunar dust capture using novel multi-plexed inertial filter | Completed | 5 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) | Completed | 2 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| CRATOS II: Modular ISRU Excavation Tools, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Overcoming Kinetics Limitations in Materials And at Interfaces for Low-temperature, High-energy Batteries | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
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