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 194 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers - Validation via Suborbital Flight, Year 4 | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Further Development of Aperture: A Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements | Completed | 2 | Mirror Systems | Northwestern University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrochemical Approach to ID Bacteria | Completed | 1 | — | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dusty Plasma Fission Fragment Propulsion | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-low thermal stability of Gallium Nitride (GaN) power devices | Completed | 7 | Advanced Commercial-off-the-Shelf Technologies | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Formation Flying with a Beach Ball Coronagraph | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Learning Agent for Autonomous Spacecraft Activity Planning and Orbit Selection | Completed | 3 | Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Utilizing Surface Acoustic Waves for Rapid Heating in Lithium-Ion Batteries | Completed | 2 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | University of California-San Diego | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Thermal effects in plume-surface interaction during a powered descent landing | Completed | 2 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Johns Hopkins University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Integrated Low Temperature CO2 and H2O Electrolysis | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Capacitive Mass Guaging for Cyrogenic Fluids in Micro-g (CAPMAG) | Completed | 6 | In-Space Propellant Storage and Use | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Situ Production of Cementitious Material from Martian Resources, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Bio-inspired Thermal Exchange System for Spacecraft | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Materials | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Exploration of Bio-Inspired Acoustic Metasurface-Based Absorbers | Completed | 3 | Aeroacoustics | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design of Refractory Alloys for Processing by Additive Manufacturing and Service at Extremely High Temperatures | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing Processes | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of an X-ray tube for planetary instruments | Completed | 6 | Decompression Sickness Mitigation | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid State Ultra Capacitor, Year 1 | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Small Satellite Modular ADCS | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Regolith-Derived Heat Shield for Planetary Body Entry and Descent System with In Situ Fabrication | Completed | 3 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid Polymer Nanocomposite Battery Electrolyte | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Critical 2D-to-3D Transformation of NASA's VESGEN Software for Astronaut Health Countermeasures and Terrestrial Medicine/Ecological Commercialization | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Control Techniques for Hand and Wrist Robotic Rehabilitation | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | Rice University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid Lithium Ion Conductors (SLIC) for Lithium Solid State Batteries | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| AI-Enhanced Microweather Nowcasting for Safe Urban Air Mobility | Completed | 3 | Weather and Environment | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of an integrated system for cell analysis and profiling by capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | University of Kansas | 2025-12-18 | — |
| FAME: Fast Affordance Manipulation Execution | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In situ sensor for accurate measurement of extinction coefficients and lidar ratios of aerosols and clouds | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Using Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate CFD Simulations Requiring General Gas Chemistry | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fluidic Telescope: Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories (FLUTE) | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Broadband Laser Source and Spectrally Resolved Detection for Spectroscopic LiDAR Instrument | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Low Temperature Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Sterilization Shower, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Structured Sorbents: Rapid Cycle Temperature Swing Adsorption (TSA) | Completed | 4 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Landing and Proximity Operation Technology for Poorly-Characterized Small Bodies | Active | 2 | Touchdown Systems | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | High |
| Characterization of Plasmadynamics within a Small Magnetic Nozzle | Completed | 3 | Electromagnetic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Electrified Liquid Jets from Nanostructured Surfaces for Phase Change Heat Transfer Enhancement | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Space Manufacturing, Assembly, and Repair Technologies for Space Structures (I-SMART) | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Space-based Human Reliability Analysis Development, Year 2 (HRA) | Completed | 3 | Human Factors Engineering | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of a Wave Front Control system for space utilizing MEMS Deformable Mirrors | Completed | 5 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Forceful manual manipulation with millirobot ensembles on unreliable substrates | Completed | 3 | Collaborative Mobility | University of California-Berkeley | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of High-Energy and Low-Cost Semi-Solid Sodium Batteries Operating at Extreme Cold Temperatures | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Dartmouth College | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magnetic and low-dissipation applications of topological materials at limited dimensions | Completed | 3 | Electronic Packaging and Implementations | Yale University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Apollo Regolith Thermally Constrained Landing Pad Bricks (ARTC Bricks) | Completed | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Advanced Applications of Generative Design and Digital Manufacturing | Completed | 4 | Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lunar lander Fuel Cell (LFC-ACO) | Completed | 5 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Blue Origin, LLC | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Diffractive Solar Sailing | Completed | 4 | Solar Sails | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Fission Fragment Dust Experiment | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Design and Fabrication of a Novel Paper Based Biosensor for Health Diagnostics, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Graphene Transparent Conductive Electrodes | Completed | 3 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Economical Access to Space, Year 1 | Completed | 5 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Dependable Neural Networks for Identifying Anomalous Behavior in Real-Time Operations, Year 2 | Completed | — | Intelligent Data Understanding | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
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