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 196 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollow Cathode Assembly Diagnostics and Modelling for Development of High Current, Long Life Hollow Cathode Assemblies | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vehicle Staging Analysis of the Transition to Supersonic Retropropulsion During Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing | Completed | 3 | System Integration and Analysis for EDL | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Methane to carbon nanotubes for clean energy and advanced materials | Completed | 3 | Distribution and Transmission | Rice University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Biological Nanowires: Self-Assembly of Complex Nanoelectronic Components from Biologically-Derived Precursors | Completed | — | Special Materials | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Coreless Linear Induction Motor (LIM) for Space-borne Electro-magnetic Mass Driver Applications Element | Completed | 5 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Flight Advisor Element | Completed | 4 | — | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Optimizing Low Light Level Imaging Techniques and Sensor Design Parameters using CCD Digital Cameras for Potential NASA Earth Science Research aboard a Small Satellite or ISS Project | Completed | 5 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Small-Volume, High-Precision, and Reliable Cryogenic Linear Actuators by Using Novel Intermetallic Compounds | Completed | 3 | Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices | University of Connecticut | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Magnetic De-spinning of Space Objects, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | — | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultralight Thermal Protection System (U-TPS) | Completed | 3 | Measurement and Control | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Novel Mechanical Optical Beam-steering for Lidar | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| In-Situ Consolidation of Triaxially Braided Thermoplastic Composites, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| LauncherOne Small Launch Vehicle Propulsion Advancement | Completed | 6 | — | Virgin Orbit | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ground Contact Force Characterization Rig for ISRU Modeling and Tool Development Tasks | Completed | 3 | Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| High Specific Impulse Electrospray Propulsion for High Delta-V Deep Space Missions | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Southern California | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Aligned Carbon Nanotube Tape for Sensor Technology | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Global Measurement of Martian Winds, Feasible Approaches and Future Needs / Strategies | Completed | 3 | Measurement and Control | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Radionuclide Absorption Demonstration System | Completed | 4 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| DLR's COMARS+ sensor suite for New Frontiers-4 and Discovery Competed Missions - Phase A Development | Completed | 3 | Test Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Development of Novel Particle Impact Tester for Oxygen Rich Turbo Machinery Materials and Coating Evaluation | Completed | 2 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Johnson Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Investigation of the Hall Effect Thruster Breathing Mode and Spoke Mode Instabilities in the Very Near Field | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Sustainable In-Space Manufacturing through Rapid Prototyping Technology | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Quantum Computational Biology: A Quantum Computing Approach to Hard Computational Problems Related to Origin of Life and Synthetic Biology | Completed | 9 | — | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Pericyclic Gearbox for Roving Expeditions (PyRE) | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Glenn Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Extreme Environment Wear Testbed for Materials Discovery for Lunar Dust Tolerant Applications | Completed | 4 | Manufacturing Processes | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Hybrid Van Der Waals Materials In Next-Generation Electronics | Completed | 3 | Special Materials | University of Notre Dame | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Revolutionizing Orbit Insertion with Drag-Modulated Plasma Aerocapture | Completed | 3 | Hypersonic Decelerators | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Systems StrEss Testing (ASSET) | Completed | 3 | Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Combined Heat Shield and Solar Thermal Propulsion System for an Oberth Maneuver | Completed | 3 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Autonomous Micro-Modular Mobile Data Center Cloud Computing Study for Modeling, Simulation, Information Processing and Cyber-Security Viability Project | Completed | 6 | Cyber Security | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Modeling of Microstructure Formation in Additively Manufactured IN718 with Emphasis on Porosity Prediction | Completed | 4 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Carnegie Mellon University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy (EPIC) | Completed | 5 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Solid State Ultra Capacitor, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Linear Transformer Drivers for Propulsion and Power, Year 2 | Completed | 4 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Venus Atmosphere and Cloud Particle Sample Return for Astrobiology | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Vehicle Design & Performance Simulation Capabilities Development for Magnetohydrodynamic Aerocapture | Completed | 3 | Hypersonic Decelerators | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Continuing to Raise the Technical Readiness of Germanium Immersion Gratings for a Space-based High-resolution IR Spectrograph | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Ames Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Rapid and minimally invasive glass microfiber-based biodosimeter for in-flight quantification of radiation exposure from finger prick blood samples | Completed | 3 | Monitoring Technology | Oregon State University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Conformal Carbon Nanotubes for Stray Light Suppression | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Wireless Multiplexed SAW Sensors, Year 2 | Completed | 3 | Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring | Kennedy Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Lasing Without Gain Inertial Sensors | Completed | 3 | Navigation Sensors | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Ultra-Low Power CMOS-compatible Integrated Photonic Platform for Terabit-Scale Communications | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | Columbia University in the City of New York | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Developing a Material Response Model of Biopolymer-Stabilized Regolith to Predict Micrometeoroid Damage of ISRU Habitat Systems | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy Storage Feedstock Materials | Stanford University | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A 3He-4He Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration System with Gadolinium Lithium Fluoride for Sub-Kelvin Cooling of Space Instrumentation | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Propellant Delivery Via VDC Driven Pump, Year 3 | Completed | 5 | Propellant Production, Storage, and Transfer | Stennis Space Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Diamond Electron-Spin Clocks For Space Navigation and Communication | Completed | 3 | Timekeeping and Time Distribution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2025-12-18 | — |
| VLWIR nBn Detectors Based on InAsSb Metamorphic Superlattices, Year 2 | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2025-12-18 | — |
| A System for Time-Critical Human-Machine Decision Making | Completed | 2 | — | Langley Research Center | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Using Ternary Alloy Additions to Engineer Nitinol Shape Memory Alloys | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | The University of Alabama | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Orbit Databases and Fast Gravity Fields for Rapid Trajectory Design Near Small Bodies | Completed | 3 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination | The University of Texas at Austin | 2025-12-18 | — |
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