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 31 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenslet-Array, Spatially-Distributed, Self-Phase-Locked Laser Architecture | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Escape and Capture from Deep Gravity Wells (Earth, Moon, Planets) Using Low Thrust Propulsion Systems | Completed | 4 | Tools and Methodologies for Performing Systems Analysis | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| High Precision RF Ranging and Range Rate Measurements over Laser Communication in Cubesat Platform (Ranging over optical carrier) | Completed | 2 | Optimetrics | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Miniaturization of a Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer for Terrestrial Ecosystems Applications (MINI-SPEC) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of High-Performance UV Band-pass filters | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Wavefront Sensing for a Segmented-Aperture Space Telescope Coronagraph | Completed | 3 | Architecture and Design of Autonomous Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| TASS Signal Specification | Completed | 5 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| GMAT-Based Mission Analysis and Design API | Completed | 3 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Cubesat Fine Sun Sensor (WFSS) | Completed | 3 | Contactless and Wearable Human Health and Performance Monitoring | Wallops Flight Facility | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Volume-Efficient Momentum-exchange Actuator | Completed | 4 | Control Force and Torque Actuators | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Two Scan Heads are Better Than One: Integration of a Second Scan Pedestal for Co-manifesting CoSMIR, CoSSIR, and/or HyMAS | Completed | 5 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Core Flight System Satellite Starter Kit | Completed | 9 | Testing and Evaluation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Game Changing Usage of High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems as Extremely Large Antennas for Space Physical and Geophysical Remote Imaging Project | Completed | 3 | Distribution and Transmission | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Precision Detector Positioner | Completed | 3 | Distributed Aperture | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Fabrication of Partially Transparent Petaled Masks Using Gray Scale Lithography | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Parametric Amplifiers for Detector Arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Passive Films for CubeSat Solar Array and Radiator Thermal Control (ALD - Atomic Layer Deposition) | Completed | 3 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Utilizing NASA Resources to Provide Multi-Frequency Observations of Clouds and Precipitation for ACE and CaPPM Ground Validation | Completed | 5 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Technology Development for a Future Gravitational Wave Mission | Completed | 3 | Observatories | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Miniaturized, High-Reliability CubeSat Release Mechanism | Completed | 1 | Electromechanical, Mechanical, and Micromechanical Devices | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Optical Airborne Tracker System (OATS) | Completed | 4 | Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Wide-angle Compact Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer and Energy Analyzer | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Ultra-compact Freeform Optics for Modular CubeSats - A Novel Ultra-compact Star Scanner | Completed | 1 | Attitude Estimation Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Global Aerosol Measurement System (GAMS) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Detection of Volatile Crystals Mixed with Regolith (CMIST) | Completed | 3 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| Onboard Optical Navigation Measurement Processing in GEONS | Completed | 3 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-08 | — |
| High Broadband Reflectivity Mirror Coatings for the Next Generation ofSpace Observatories | Completed | 5 | Optical Components | University of Colorado Boulder | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Development of integrated readout electronics for next generation X-ray CCDs | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Stanford University | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Precision Optical Coatings for Large Space Telescope Mirrors | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | ZeCoat Corporation | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Germanium Charge-Coupled Devices for Large-Format, Low-Noise Hard X-Ray Sensors | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Plasma Enhancements in The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petit Sat) | Completed | 6 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-14 | — |
| High Temperature GaN Microprocessor for Space Applications | Completed | 2 | Electronics | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Advanced vortex phase masks and techniques | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | California Institute of Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| The DEUCE and INFUSE Sounding Rocket Payloads: EUV and Integral Field Spectrographs for Next-generation Space-flight Hardware Development | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Colorado Boulder | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Miniaturized Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS) for Trace Element Analysis | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | University of Maryland-College Park | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Fabrication of High Resolution Lightweight X-ray Mirrors Using Mono-crystalline Silicon | Completed | 1 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2020-01-14 | — |
| MgB2 Material Advancements Towards Innovative Astrophysics Technology-Development Phase | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Hard X-ray multilayer coatings for HEX-P and other future missions | Completed | 3 | Mirror Systems | Reflective X-Ray Optics LLC | 2020-01-14 | — |
| On-orbit X-ray telescope figure monitoring and control for adjustable X-ray optics for the Lynx Mission Concept | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Smithsonian Institution | 2020-01-14 | — |
| X-ray Reflection Gratings: Limitations and Improvements | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Nano-technology for Advanced X-Ray Microcapillary Plates | Completed | 4 | Structures and Antennas | Naval Research Laboratory | 2020-01-14 | — |
| MgB2 HEB based heterodyne array for applications above 2 THz | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | California Institute of Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| SiC Electronics To Enable Long-Lived Chemical Sensor Measurements at the Venus Surface | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Makel Engineering, Inc. | 2020-01-14 | — |
| High-contrast Nulling Interferometry Techniques | Completed | 1 | Optical Components | NASA Headquarters | 2020-01-14 | — |
| SLUSH: Thermo-Mechanical Deep Drilling System for Ocean Worlds and Mars | Completed | 3 | Environment Sensors | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. | 2020-01-14 | — |
| High Temperature-resilient And Long-Life (HiTALL) Primary Batteries for Venus and Mercury Surface Missions | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | California Institute of Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Microwave SQUID readout technology to enable Lynx and other future Great Observatories | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Silicon Micromachined Heterodyne Array Receiver at 1.9 THz | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2020-01-14 | — |
| Megapixel arrays of superconducting UV single-photon detectors | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2020-01-14 | — |
| High Power UV Laser Lifetime Demonstrator | Completed | 4 | Lasers | NASA Headquarters | 2020-01-14 | — |
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