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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13,351 projects harvested so far — page 3 of 268.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powder Fuel System Development for Hybrid Propulsion and Power | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Langley Research Center |
| Reducing Cost of Space Photovoltaics via Sound-Assisted Substrate Reuse | Completed | 5 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Crystal Sonic, Inc. |
| Resource ingesting soft robotic skins for in situ regolith sampling | Active | 2 | Dexterous Manipulation | Yale University |
| As Needed Radiation Shielding - System In Package Radiation Shielding | Completed | 5 | Protection Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Co-Operative Blending of Autonomous Landing Technology (COBALT) | Completed | 5 | — | Johnson Space Center |
| Use of the Operational Air Quality Monitor (AQM) for In-Flight Water Testing | Completed | 4 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center |
| Radar Hazard Identification for Planetary Landers D Stage 2 | Completed | 6 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Nanofabrication of High Temperature Superconducting Josephson THz Mixers, Year 1 | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Starfish Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Mission Concept Study (SSPICY Starfish) | Completed | 4 | Orbital Debris Characterization | Starfish Space, Inc. |
| Minimal Representation State Estimation of Rigid/Flexible Structural Elements for Autonomous Assembly and Servicing of Lunar Surface Assets | Completed | 2 | Modularity, Commonality, and Interfaces | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Variable Conductance Radiator for CO2 Deposition in Deep Space Transit | Completed | 3 | Atmosphere Revitalization | University of North Texas |
| Additive Manufacturing of Wear-Resistant Novel Transition Metal Boride Material System for Lunar Exploration | Completed | — | Materials for Extreme Environments | Langley Research Center |
| Spectral Mass-Gauging of Unsettled Liquid With Acoustic Waves | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Ames Research Center |
| Laser Thompson Scattering Investigation of Plasma Oscillations in Hall-Effect Thrusters | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout for High Altitude Missions | Completed | 3 | Electronics | University of California-Santa Barbara |
| Advanced measurements in flows with high-temperature particulate and gas products | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems for Landing | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Wildfire Mitigation through Explainable Risk Predictions | Completed | 4 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Terrafuse, Inc. |
| Making quantum computers less noisy and more useful | Completed | 3 | Ground Computing | Michigan State University |
| High Irradiance Peltier Operated Tungsten Exo-Reflector (HI-POWER) | Completed | 3 | Thermal Protection Systems | Howe Industries, LLC |
| A Compact Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (C-EUVI) | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Quasi-1 Dimensional Modeling of Rotational Detonation Engines | Completed | 3 | Airbreathing Pressure Gain Combustion | Purdue University-Main Campus |
| Low-Mass Planar Photonic Imaging Sensor | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of California-Berkeley |
| On-Orbit, Collision-Free Mapping of Small Orbital Debris | Completed | 2 | Orbital Debris Tracking | University of Maryland-College Park |
| In-Situ Resource Utilization | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Glenn Research Center |
| Mini Impactor Sensors for Lunar Geotechnical Arrays | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Glenn Research Center |
| Planetary Anchoring Using Local Material (Regolith) Sintering | Completed | 3 | — | Glenn Research Center |
| Development of a High Fidelity Solar Sail Dynamics Model | Completed | 3 | Solar Sails | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit | Completed | 3 | Prevention and Countermeasures | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator II (HIAD2) | Completed | 7 | — | Langley Research Center |
| In-Situ Production of Cementitious Material from Martian Resources, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | — | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Prototype Application of Portable Augmented Reality Technology for Enhancement of Space and Planetary Exploration Project | Completed | 6 | Human-System Performance Modeling | Stennis Space Center |
| Integration of an Autonomous Control System Into the Flow Survey Probe | Completed | — | Aerodynamics | Langley Research Center |
| Direct-Write Printing on 3-Dimensional Geometries for Miniaturized Detector and Electronic Assemblies, Year 3 | Completed | 4 | — | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Plasma Treatment to Enhance Fuel Cell Water Management Project | Completed | 2 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Glenn Research Center |
| Hydrogen Plasma Reduction of Lunar Regolith for Oxygen Liberation | Completed | — | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Kennedy Space Center |
| A Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation-based Countermeasure to Motion Sickness in Astronauts | Completed | 3 | Prevention and Countermeasures | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers (SWIM) | Completed | 2 | Mobility | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Charged Particle Dynamics in the Lunar Environment | Completed | — | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Kennedy Space Center |
| VLWIR nBn Detectors Based on InAsSb Metamorphic Superlattices, Year 1 | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Embedded and Distributed Machine Learning for Prognostics Monitoring | Completed | 4 | Operations, Health, and Maintenance for Ground and Surface Systems | Stennis Space Center |
| SuperSpec: A Revolutionary New Spectrometer for Submillimeter Astronomy | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions (PROCSIMA) | Completed | 2 | Solar Thermal Propulsion | Texas A & M University-College Station |
| Lunar Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (LSMES) | Completed | 3 | Advanced Concepts for Energy Storage | Johnson Space Center |
| Advanced Manifolds for Improved Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Performance | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Glenn Research Center |
| Modular Portable Life Support System (PLSS) to Increase EVA Mobility and Reduce Consumables | Completed | 3 | Portable Life Support System | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MHD Augmented Aerocapture System to Enable Flagship Class Missions to Ice Giants | Completed | 4 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Langley Research Center |
| EDL Flight Concepts | Completed | 6 | — | Ames Research Center |
| Design of an Electric Field Instrument to Characterize Millimeter-Scale Orbital Debris via Plasma Solitons | Completed | 3 | Orbital Debris Tracking | University of Maryland-College Park |
| Predictive Material Modeling (PMM) | Completed | 6 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Ames Research Center |
| Modeling of Intumescent Ablators | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Systems | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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