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 188 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developing and validating a virtual sensorimotor analog and countermeasure | Completed | 7 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| StarNAV: An Architecture for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation by the Relativistic Perturbation of Starlight | Completed | 3 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Normal-Incidence X-ray Mirror for Mapping Warm Galactic Halos | Completed | 2 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Corrugated Two-dimensional Material Enabled Flexoelectricity for Cryogenic Actuator Technology | Completed | 3 | Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch (Kilo) | Completed | 2 | Structures | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter | Completed | 3 | Other Entry, Descent, and Landing | Hbar Technologies, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Coiled Brine Recovery Assembly, Year 2 (CoBRA) | Completed | 5 | Water Recovery and Management | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Manufacturing Techniques for High Energy Battery Components | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enabling closed-loop control of high degree-of-freedom soft robotic structures | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | Yale University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Combined artificial star, temperature lidar and magnetometer | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Self-healing Materials for Lightweight, Inflatable Structures for Future Space Systems | Completed | — | Special Materials | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Additive Manufacturing of Low Work Function Oxides for Spaceborne Thermionic Emission Applications | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| VerdeGo Aero VH-3 Hybrid ElectricPowerplant | Completed | 6 | Hybrid Electric Systems | — | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Towards Real-Time and High-Precision Trajectory Simulation for Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, Year 1 | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Psychophysiological Monitoring of Aerospace Crew State | Completed | 3 | Behavioral Health and Performance | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms | Completed | 2 | Distributed Aperture | Cornell University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Intelligent Response and Interaction System (IRIS) | Completed | 4 | Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Water Walls: Highly Reliable and Massively Redundant Life Support Architecture | Completed | 3 | Certification Methods | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bioremediation of Microgravity Biofilms and Water Processor Health | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar Planets with a Vector Vortex Coronagraph | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | California Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| End-to-End Trajectory Optimization | Completed | 5 | Trajectory Design and Analysis | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Precursor and neutral loss scans in a single ion trap and application to planetary exploration | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | Purdue University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Superelastic, Non-Pneumatic Tire for Space & Terrestrial Applications, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Validation of Fiber Optic Temperature Sensor Arrays for Thermal Protection System Materials | Completed | 6 | — | Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Characterization of Reinforced Structural Composites with Carbon Nanotubes Grown Directly on the Fibers/Fabrics Using the PopTube Approach | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | The University of Alabama | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Prediction of Safety Incidents, Year 3 | Completed | 3 | Event and Trend Identification | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Leidenfrost Driven Waste-Water Separator | Completed | 3 | Water Recovery and Management | Portland State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space Production from Recyclable Feedstocks | Completed | — | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bio-Inspired Space Environment-Resistant Polymer Composite | Completed | 2 | Materials for Extreme Environments | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Discrete Velocity Method for Simulating Rarefied Gas Flows with Plasma | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing Next-Generation X-Ray Hybrid CMOS Detectors for Future Observatories and Investigating Their Low-Energy Response | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| ORCLS - Optical-Radio Coherence for Laser Stability | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Extrasolar Object Interceptor and Sample Return Enabled by Compact, Ultra Power Dense Radioisotope Batteries (ESO) | Completed | 2 | Power Generation and Energy Conversion | Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation-Technologies | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid-State Thermionic Nuclear Power for Megawatt Propulsion, Planetary Surface and Commercial Power | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-situ Neutral-Optics Velocity Analyzer for Thermospheric Exploration (INOVATE) (INOVATE) | Completed | 2 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT)/SR-1 | Completed | 5 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A New Formation Flying/Satellite Swarm Concept | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Investigation of Degradation in Solid-State Batteries at Extreme Temperatures | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated Entry and Powered Descent Guidance for Human Mars Missions | Completed | 3 | Hypersonic Decelerators | San Diego State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High-Temperature Superconductors as Electromagnetic Deployment and Support Structures | Completed | 3 | Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Reliable RCS Ignition of LOX-LCH4 Propellants | Completed | 5 | Propulsion Systems for Landing | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pyroelectric Fusion Microthruster | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enhancing Operation Imagery and Video for Human Exploration | Completed | 5 | Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Spectrally-Resolved Synthetic Imaging Interferometer | Completed | 2 | Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multifunctional Polymer Matrix Composites Through Thin Fuzzy Fiber | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Polarization-free Cubic Phase GaN Ultraviolet Laser Diodes for Space-based Light Interferometry | Completed | 3 | Lasers | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Revolutionary Methods to Reduce Conservatism in Design Loads | Completed | 2 | Aeroelasticity | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Multi-Level Autonomous Piloting System | Completed | 4 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrolyte Engineering Toward Increasing Nonaqueous Lithium-Oxygen Battery Capacity | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
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