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 334 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
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| Ultralow Bit Energy VCSEL-Based Transceiver for High Efficiency, Radiation-Hardened Optical Data Links | Completed | 5 | Lasers | sdPhotonics, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ultra-Lightweight Mechanical Metamaterials for Mitigating Impacts and Crashes of Urban Air Mobility Vehicles | Completed | 5 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Multiscale Systems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| LunarCube for Deep Space Missions | Completed | 4 | Electrostatic Propulsion | Busek Company, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Robust Two-Phase Cooling Technology for Megawatt Space-Based Systems | Completed | 4 | Heat Transport | TTH Research, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | Advanced Space, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Dead-Ended Passive Electrolyzer with Elimination of Vapor/Liquid Separation for Life Support Oxygen | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Giner, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Lightweight, Efficient Power Converters for Advanced Turboelectric Aircraft Propulsion Systems | Completed | 4 | Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation | MTECH Laboratories, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| AstroPorter | Completed | 5 | Collaborative Mobility | Tethers Unlimited Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Additively Manufactured, Ultra-Stable RoboSiC Proximity Imaging CubeSat Telescope | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Goodman Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Lab-on-a-Robot Platform for in-situ Planetary Compositional Analysis | Completed | 6 | Sample Handling | HJ Science & Technology, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| A Robust Flare Planning Logic for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications | Completed | 6 | Guidance Algorithms | Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Ambient Desorption, Ionization, and Extraction Source for Mars Exploration | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Trace Matters Scientific, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Additively Manufactured, Thermally Stable Telescope Mirror Substrates | Completed | 5 | Mirror Systems | Quadrus Advanced Manufacturing, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Chromatic Interferometric Probe | Completed | 4 | Lasers | OptiPro Systems, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| All Weather UAS for Long Term Unattended Environmental Observations | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Black Swift Technologies, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Cold Spray Low-Friction Composite Metal-Solid Lubricant Coatings | Completed | 5 | Coatings | Applied Tungstenite Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Autonomous Decision Support System for Sense and Avoid (ADeSSSA) | Completed | 5 | Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Systems | Greensight, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| HD6D LIDAR for High Speed Descent Mapping | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Sunflake Extra Linear | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Concepts | Gendell Associates DBA Folditure | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High-Efficiency, Radiation-Hard, Lightweight IMM Solar Cells | Completed | 7 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | MicroLink Devices, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Market Mechanisms for Airspace Flow Program Slots | Completed | 7 | Lightweight Concepts | Metron Aviation, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Specific Power Primary Fuel Cell System | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Precision Combustion, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Accurate, Miniature Attitude Determination System | Completed | 6 | Attitude Estimation Sensors | Creare, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| 200W Deep Space CubeSat Composite Beam Roll-Up Solar Array (COBRA) | Completed | 6 | Lightweight Concepts | Composite Technology Development, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Polymer Matrix Composites using Fused Deposition Modeling Technology | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Materials Modification, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Real-Time Prediction and Forecasting of Geoelectric Fields Using Machine Learning | Completed | 4 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Quantitative Scientific Solutions, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Compact Instrument for Measurement of Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Southwest Sciences, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Novel Fabrication Approach for SiC/SiC Thermal Protection System Elements | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Computational Tool for Coupled Simulation of Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows with Ablation | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | CFD Research Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Low Flame Temperature Monopropellant Propulsion Unit for Cubesats (MPUC) | Completed | 5 | Earth Storable Propellants | CU Aerospace, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Enhanced ORCA and CLARREO Depolarizers Using AR Microstructures | Completed | 5 | Human Factors Engineering | TelAztec | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Aircraft Engine Life-Consumption Monitoring for Real-Time Reliability Determination | Completed | 7 | Advanced Life Cycle Testing Techniques | Nastec, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| PERISCOPE - Probe for Exploring Regolith and Ice by Subsurface Classification of Organics, PAHs, and Elements | Completed | 7 | Optical Components | Impossible Sensing, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Nautilus Centripetal Capillary Condenser | Completed | 3 | Habitation Systems | UMPQUA Research Company | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Weather Testbed for Urban Air Mobility | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Tomorrow Companies | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Multi-Specimen Variable-G Facility for Life and Microgravity Sciences Research | Completed | 7 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Redwire Space Technologies, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Instrumentation for Multiple Radiation Detection Based On Novel Mercurous Halides for Nuclear Planetology | Completed | 6 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Brimrose Technology Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Integrated Icing Detection Filter for On-Demand Aircraft | Completed | 7 | Engine Icing | Continuum Dynamics, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Innovations in Hollow Cathode Construction Technology | Completed | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | E-beam, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| ELAS, Electric Lift Augmenting Slats | Completed | 4 | All-Electric Propulsion | CubCrafters Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Desensitized Optimal Filtering and Sensor Fusion Tool Kit | Completed | 6 | Navigation Sensors | Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Reconfigurable VLIW Processor for Software Defined Radio | Completed | 6 | Flight and Ground Systems | Aries Design Automation, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Optical gyroscopes and accelerometers at the fundamental precision limit | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | Lenzner Research, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Demonstration of a Nano-Enabled Space Power System | Completed | 5 | Innovative Signal Modulations | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Unibody Composite Pressurized Structure (UCPS) for In-Space Propulsion | Completed | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Microcosm, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Efficient Techniques for Formal Verification of PowerPC 750 Executables | Completed | — | — | Aries Design Automation, LLC | 2026-01-22 | — |
| Innovative Hybridsil Poly(Siloxane Imide) Composite Repair Materials and Methods | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Nanosonic, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| ChemCam-like Spectrometer for Non-Contact Measurements of Key Isotopes | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Applied Spectra, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
| A Refined Model for the Behavior of Nitrous Oxide to Assess the Limits of N2O Cooling | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Rolling Hills Research Corporation | 2026-01-22 | — |
| High Speed and High Timing Resolution Cycling Excitation Process (CEP) Sensor Array for NIR LIDAR | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Imaging Nanosystems, Inc. | 2026-01-22 | — |
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