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 278 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Mode Micropropulsion | Completed | 5 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Froberg Aerospace, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Density Bi-Directional Modular Power Converter with Additive Manufactured Magnetics | Completed | 4 | Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation | SET Group, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Testing Deep Cratering Physics to Inform Plume Effects Modeling | Completed | 5 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Masten Space Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Lightweight Inflatable Structural Airlock (LISA) | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Concepts | CFD Research Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Terramechanics Modeling of Soil-Wheel Interactions at the Lunar Poles | Completed | 5 | Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation | Blueshift, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ground based uplink and beacon laser for long range communications | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Physical Sciences, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Based 3D Imaging | Completed | — | Lasers | LongWave Photonics, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact Multi-Protocol Modem | Completed | 3 | Flight and Ground Systems | Innoflight, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Miniature 70-W Brushless Motor-Controller for Compact Extraterrestrial-Based Actuation | Completed | 6 | Surface Mobility | Barrett Technology, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High heat flux Enhanced Acquisition and Transport system for Small spacecraft | Completed | 5 | Heat Transport | LoadPath | 2026-01-22 | — |
| TEAMS Fault Management Extension for SysML | Completed | 4 | Model-Based Systems Engineering | Qualtech Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Two-phase Pumped Loop for Spacecraft Thermal Control | Completed | 4 | Heat Transport | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Milliarcsecond Small Spacecraft Attitude Control System | Completed | 4 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Busek Company, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Electrical Power from Thermal Energy Scavenging in High Temperature Environments | Completed | 3 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Physical Sciences, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Miniature UAV Wind LIDAR & Flight Extension System | Completed | 5 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Tailoring the Solar Spectrum for Enhanced Crop Yield for Space Missions | Completed | 5 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | UbiQD | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Autopilot Commander Conjunction-assessment Enabling a Starling and a System for Exchange and Deconfliction | Completed | 6 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Emergent Space Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Meso-Scale Ericsson Power Generation System | Completed | 5 | Heat Sources | Inventherm | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Collaborative Sensing and Mapping for IVA Robots | Completed | 6 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | Metis Technology Solutions, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Linear Acoustic Nuclear Conversion Engine (LANCE) | Completed | 2 | Dynamic Energy Conversion | Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Performance Computing-Accelerated Metrology for Large Optical Telescopes | Completed | 7 | Optical Components | SURVICE Engineering Company, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| COLLADA Computing for Geophysical Applications | Completed | 3 | Intelligent Data Understanding | WxAnalyst, LTD | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ka-Band Electronically Steered CubeSat Antenna | Completed | 4 | Innovative Antennas | Kymeta Government Solutions | 2026-01-22 | — |
| A New Multi-Domain Sensing System for Fault Detection and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Monitoring of Lithium-ion Batteries in Hybrid and/or All-Electric Propulsion | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | X-wave Innovations, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Striction-based Power Monitoring in Space Environment | Completed | — | Management and Control | QorTek, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Organic Aerogels with Improved Resilience and Flexibility for Multifunctional Protection in Spacesuits | Completed | 3 | Pressure Garment | Aspen Aerogels, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Rapid Activation of Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems | Completed | — | Water Recovery and Management | Pancopia, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Standards for Impure Propellants | Completed | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Stakeholder Access to Embedded System Models (SAESM) | Completed | 4 | Integrated Hardware and Software Modeling | Galois, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Innovative High Efficiency Filter for Mars Dust | Completed | 6 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Blazetech Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Radiation Tolerant High Voltage Silicon Carbide Switches | Completed | 4 | Advanced Electronic Parts | CoolCAD Electronics, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| ADAPtive agenT Architecture | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic Propulsion | TRACLabs, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Development of a Radiation Hardened CZT Sensor Array and 1U CubeSat Flight Test (>TRL 6) | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Black Forest Engineering, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| MOPA Laser Transmitter with Passive Q-Switch for Space LIDAR | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Litespar, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Reversible Copolymer Materials for FDM 3-D Printing of Non-Standard Plastics | Completed | 3 | In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Hybrid Approach for Modeling Chemical Kinetics and Turbulence Effects on Combustion-Instability | Completed | 5 | Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies | CFD Research Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| ISRU CO2 Recovery | Completed | 3 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | TDA Research, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Improved CDGPS FDIR Using Comm-based Relative Measurements | Completed | 3 | GN&C Fault Management, Fault Tolerance, and Autonomy | Emergent Space Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Frequency Steered Acoustic Transducer | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Genziko, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| 3WAVeS – Three-Axis Wearable Adaptive Vestibular Stimulator | Completed | 4 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Luna Innovations, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Advanced Aerodynamic Analysis For Propulsion Airframe Integration | Completed | 6 | Aerodynamics | Research in Flight | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Second-Order Kalman Filter Using Multi-Complex Step Derivatives | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | Emergent Space Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| 3D Flash LIDAR Real-Time Embedded Processing | Completed | 7 | High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays | Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Plastic Melt Waste Compactor Flight Demonstrator Payload (PFDP) | Completed | 4 | Waste Management | ORBITEC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Space-Qualifiable Digital Radar Transceiver | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Trident Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Radiation hardened analog in-memory computing for space applications | Completed | 5 | — | Mentium Technologies Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Warm Gas Generator Resistojet Micropropulsion System | Completed | 7 | Electrothermal Propulsion | Benchmark Space Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Integrating ISHM with Flight Avionics Architectures for Cyber-Physical Space Systems | Completed | 7 | Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling | Qualtech Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Model and Testing Based Assurance of COTS Systems in Space Radiation Environments | Completed | 4 | Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset | Alphacore, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Electrionically Steered Antenna for Advanced RF Communications | Completed | 4 | Flight and Ground Systems | nGimat Co. | 2026-01-22 | — |
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