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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21,176 projects harvested so far — page 242 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spacecraft Cabin Air CO2 Recovery | Completed | 3 | Atmosphere Revitalization | TDA Research, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Cryogenic Oscillating Heat Pipes | Completed | 5 | In-Space Propellant Storage and Use | ThermAvant Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Aeroelastic/Aeroservoelastic Uncertainty and Reliability of Advanced Aerospace Vehicles in Flight and Ground Operations | Completed | 3 | Aeroelasticity | — | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ultra-High Temperature Solid State Ultracapacitor Operating at 300C For Extreme Environments | Completed | 4 | Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage | FastCAP Systems Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Simulation Tool for Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators at Atmospheric and Sub-Atmospheric Pressures | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions | Tech-X Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Lunar Network Autonomous Routing (LEARN) | Completed | 5 | Disruption Tolerant Networking | EpiSys Science, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Robust Propulsion Control for Improved Aircraft Safety | Completed | 3 | Engine Icing | Scientific Monitoring, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Composite Crash Attenuators for UAM Vehicle Crashworthiness | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Concepts | Urbineer, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact Integrated DBR Laser Source for Absorption Lidar Instruments | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Photodigm, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Development of Lunar Vehicle and Payload Thermal Control Systems for Extreme Lunar Environments | Completed | 8 | Heat Transport | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Development of a Computed Tomography Simulator: SimCT, Application to Health Monitoring and Remaining Life Assessment | Completed | 7 | Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors | Nde Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Harsh Environment Gas Sensor Array for Venus Atmospheric Measurements | Completed | — | Environment Sensors | Makel Engineering, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Large-Area, Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet for Spacecraft Surface Sterilization for Planetary Protection | Completed | 3 | Planetary Protection | Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Intact.Fiber: An Application Programming Interface for the Design, Simulation, and Optimization of Tow-Steered Composites | Completed | 6 | Lightweight Concepts | Intact Solutions | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Spacecraft Rendezvous Guidance in Cluttered Dynamical Environments via Extreme Learning Machines | Completed | 3 | Guidance Algorithms | DeepAnalytX | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Additive Manufacturing of Complex gamma-TiAl Components for hypersonic Application | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Advanced Manufacturing, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Low-Cost Mixed-Phase Cloud Characterization Sensor Suite | Completed | 8 | Environment Sensors | Anasphere, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Lunar FLAPPER | Completed | 5 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Orbit Logic, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Multi-kW Uplink Fiber-Laser Beacon with Agile Signal Format | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Fibertek, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Advanced Departure Queue Management | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Mosaic ATM, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Efficiency Direct Methane Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System | Completed | 5 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | NexTech Materials, Ltd. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Hybrid Heat Pipes for High Heat Flux Applications | Completed | 5 | Heat Transport | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ionic Liquid Epoxy Composite Cryotanks | Completed | 4 | Computational Materials | AZ Technology, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Contingency Analysis for Low-thrust Missions (CALM) | Completed | 4 | Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles | Advanced Space, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Very High Gain and Low Noise Near Infrared Single Photon Counting Detectors and Arrays | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Amplification Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Low Coherence Wavefront Probe for Nanometer Level Free-Form Metrology | Completed | 8 | Mirror Systems | Apre Instruments, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| PlanetVac-Xombie2: Honeybee PlanetVac on the Masten Lunar Lander | Completed | 6 | Sample Acquisition and Handling | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Parallel Nonlinear Optimization for Astrodynamic Navigation | Completed | 5 | Software Analysis and Design Tools | CU Aerospace, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Very Large Ultra-Lightweight Affordable Smart Solar Array | Completed | 4 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Affordable Maximum Performance Solar Array for NASA and Commercial Missions | Completed | 8 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Deployable Space Systems, Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Development of a Novel, Ultra-Low SWAP, RAD-Tolerant, Multi-Channel, Reprogrammable Photonic Integrated Circuit Optical Transceiver Module | Completed | 3 | Innovative Antennas | Space Photonics, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| 20 GSPS ADC For Spectrometer Backends In Microwave Radiometers | Completed | 5 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Alphacore, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Laser Sources for Methane and Ozone Sensing for Earth Observation Science | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Fibertek, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact, Low Power, Multi-Parameter Astronaut Life Support Sensor (M-PALSS) | Completed | 4 | Portable Life Support System | Makel Engineering, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Digital Acquisition and Wavelength Control of Seed Laser for Space-Based LIDAR Applications | Completed | 5 | Lasers | ADVR, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Magsails for Spacecraft Deorbit | Completed | 3 | Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats | Pioneer Astronautics | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Additively Manufactured, Structurally-Integrated, Passive Two-Phase Heat Sink for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Systems | Completed | 6 | Hybrid Electric Systems | ThermAvant Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Integrated Spacecraft Navigation and Communication Using Radio, Optical, and X-rays | Completed | 6 | Hybrid Radio and Optical Technologies | Aster Labs, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Adaptive Neuromorphic Processors for Cognitive Communications | Completed | 4 | Cognitive Networking | Applied Sciences Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Fiber-to-chip fusion splicing for low-loss photonic packaging with space applications | Completed | 6 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact High-Resolution, Time-Resolved Intensified Image Sensor | Completed | 4 | Environment Sensors | Voxtel, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Spaceflight 1.94 Micron Tm Fiber Laser Transmitter | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Fibertek, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Fast Fiber-Coupled Imaging of X-Rays Events | Completed | 4 | Ground and Surface Logistics | HyperV Technologies Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Precision Surface Temperature Mapping for Heat Shield Testing | Completed | 4 | Thermal Protection Systems | Bodkin Design & Engineering | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Utilization of Monolithich Solid phases for sample preparation and processing | Completed | 4 | Lasers | J2F Engineering | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Milli-Arcsecond (MAS) Imaging with Smallsat-Enabled Super-resolution | Completed | 6 | Optical Components | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2026-01-22 | — |
| SpaceVPX Switch-Controller | Completed | 3 | High-Speed Onboard Interconnects and Networks | Crossfield Technology LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact Laser for In-Situ Compositional Analysis | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Q-Peak, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Attitude Control Enhancement Using Distributed Wing Load Sensing for Dynamic Servoelastic Control | Completed | 4 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | Systems Technology, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Autolanding for Sample Return Missions | Completed | 4 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Sensor Processing and Processors | Astrobotic Technology, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
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