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 251 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iodine Hall Thruster for Space Exploration | Completed | 5 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Busek Company, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Unified Representation for Collaborative Visualization of Planetary Terrain Data | Completed | 4 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | DigitalFish, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Hydrogenous Polymer-Regolith Composites for Radiation-Shielding Materials | Completed | 5 | Protection Systems | International Scientific Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Wide-Temperature Radiation-Hardened Interface Chipsets Utilizing Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Logic | Completed | 3 | Operational Trust Building | Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Precision Heated Tooling for OOA Curing of Thin-Ply Composites | Completed | 7 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Torque Control of Friction Stir Welding | Completed | 5 | Electromagnetic Tethers | Longhurst Engineering, PLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| PermiAM: Engineered Porosity In-Situ with Fully Dense AM Structure | Completed | 4 | Earth Storable Propellants | Masten Space Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Real-Time Thermal Stir Weld Temperature Monitor | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Industrial Measurement Systems Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Packaging and Manufacturing Processes to Enable Production of Very Large Solar Sails for Next Generation Missions | Completed | 5 | Solar Sails | Nexolve Holding Company, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Direct Write Lightning Protection and Damage Detection | Completed | 4 | Environment Sensors | MesoScribe Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Open-Source Pipeline for Large-Scale Data Processing, Analysis and Collaboration | Completed | 6 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Creare, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Optically Interrogated Thin Film Strain Gauge for Balloon | Completed | 4 | Flexible Material Systems | Creare, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Embedded Fiber Optic Shape Sensing for Aeroelastic Wing Components | Completed | 3 | Aeroelasticity | Luna Innovations, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Temperature "Smart" P3 Sensors and Electronics for Distributed Engine Control | Completed | 6 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Sporian Microsystems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Refractory Metal Coated Uranium Nitride Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Plasma Processes, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Active CryoCubeSat | Completed | 5 | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | Utah State University | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Modular Advanced Networked Telerobotic Interface System (MANTIS) | Completed | 3 | Dexterous Manipulation | Tethers Unlimited Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| A Quantum Cascade Laser-Based CO Sensor for Fire Warning | Completed | 6 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | Maxion Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Novel Silicon Carbide Deep Ultraviolet Detectors: Device Modeling, Characterization, Design and Prototyping | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | CoolCAD Electronics, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| A Novel, Portable, Projection, Focusing Schlieren System | Completed | 6 | Mechanical and Structural Integrity Testing | MetroLaser, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Precision Femtosecond Laser Additive Manufacturing and Athermal Welding | Completed | 6 | Manufacturing Processes | Polaronyx, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Plug-and-Play Compatibility for CubeSat Attitude Determination and Control Systems | Completed | 4 | Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture Sensor Processing and Processors | Adcole Maryland Aerospace, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Penetrating Backscatter X-Ray Imaging System | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Physical Optics Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Vision-Based Automation System for Safe and Efficient Taxi Operations | Completed | 3 | All-Electric Propulsion | Optimal Synthesis, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Novel Technologies for Efficient NTP Reactor Decay Heat Removal and Utilization | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation-Technologies | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High-Repetition-Rate Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering for Velocity, Density, and Temperature Meas | Completed | 3 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Spectral Energies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Computational design of robust, compatible interconnect alloys for improved PbTe-based thermoelectric devices | Completed | 4 | Heat Sources | QuesTek Innovations, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Advanced Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Radiometer for Trace Gas and Aerosol Observations | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | SciGlob Instruments & Services, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Fault Management Simulation and Visualization Tool | Completed | 4 | Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards | S&K Global Solutions, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ultra-Stable Zero-CTE HoneySiC and H2CMN Mirror Support Structures | Completed | 6 | Structures and Antennas | Fantom Materials, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Advanced Multipurpose Digital Read-Out Integrated Circuit (DROIC) For Remote Sensing and Earth Observation IR Image Sensors | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Banpil Photonics, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| VLWIR Sensors for Detecting and Tracking Near-Earth Asteroids | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | QmagiQ, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Wideband Single Crystal Transducer for Bone Characterization | Completed | 4 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | TRS Ceramics, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control Design for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking | Completed | 3 | Rendezvous and Docking Algorithms | Scientific Systems Company, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Multilamellar vesicle encapsulation of JP4-039 as a radioprotector of space radiation-induced health risks | Completed | 6 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | ChromoLogic, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Low Cost Radiator for Fission Power Thermal Control | Completed | 4 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Volume Sensor for Flexible Fluid Reservoirs in Microgravity | Completed | 4 | Portable Life Support System | Creare, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Composite Crash Attenuators for UAM Vehicle Crashworthiness | Completed | 6 | Aeroacoustics | Urbineer, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Coupling Existing Software Paradigms for Thermal Control System Analysis of Re-Entry Vehicles | Completed | 6 | Thermal Protection Analysis | Combustion Research and Flow Technology | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Waste Heat Recovery by Thermo-Radiative Cell for Space Applications | Completed | 4 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Novel Methodology for the Rapid Acoustic Optimization of Supersonic Multi-Stream 3D Nozzles | Completed | 6 | Aeroacoustics | Spectral Energies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Weaved Distributed Plastic Optical Fiber Sensor (DIFOS) SHM system | Completed | 4 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Redondo Optics, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Autonomous Assessment of Airspace Operations | Completed | 3 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Mosaic ATM, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Patterns-of-Life Geofencing supporting Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) | Completed | 3 | Aeroacoustics | The Innovation Laboratory, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Modeling Plume-Surface Interactions for Landing Pads and Untreated Ground | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Blueshift, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Innovative X-ray Star Scanner for Spin Stabilized Microsatellites | Completed | 6 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | CrossTrac Engineering, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Low-Cost, Manufacturable, 6-Inch Wafer Bonding Process for Next-Generation 5-Junction IMM+Ge Photovoltaic Devices | Completed | 6 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | MicroLink Devices, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Multi-Layered Integrated Airframe System | Completed | 5 | Thermal Protection Materials | Fiber Materials, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Dual Mode Green Monopropellant Propulsion System for Interplanetary Missions | Completed | 6 | Earth Storable Propellants | Plasma Processes, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Integrated Launch Vehicle Booster using a Rocket Engine with a Combined Thermodynamic Cycle | Completed | 5 | Earth Storable Propellants | Frontier Astronautics | 2026-01-22 | — |
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