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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 353 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminum-Lithium Alloy 2050 for Reduced-Weight, Increased-Stiffness Space Structures | Completed | 3 | Special Materials | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. |
| Propellant Flow Actuated Piezoelectric Rocket Engine Igniter | Completed | 5 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Innovative Engineering Solutions |
| Manufacturing of Nanocomposite Carbon Fibers and Composite Cylinders | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Wright Materials Research Co. |
| Reactive Rendezvous and Docking Sequencer | Completed | 7 | Rendezvous and Docking Algorithms | Blue Sun Enterprise, Inc. |
| Cold Weather Technology Development for Low Altitude Ultra-Long Endurance Applications | Completed | 6 | Mission Planning | Vanilla Aircraft, LLC |
| Plasma Catalytic Extraction of Oxygen from the Martian Atmosphere | Completed | 3 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | UMPQUA Research Company |
| Deep Space Navigation and Timing Architecture and Simulation | Completed | 3 | Navigation Sensors | Microcosm, Inc. |
| Projection/Reflection Heads-up Display | Completed | 4 | Informatics and Decision Support Systems | Physical Optics Corporation |
| Surface-Borne Time-of-Reception Measurements (STORM) | Completed | 4 | Test, Operations, and Systems Safety | Invocon, Inc. |
| Silicon Carbide Lightweight Optics With Hybrid Skins for Large Cryo Telescopes | Completed | 5 | Mirror Systems | Optical Physics Company |
| Develop High Efficiency Liquid-Feed PEM Electrolyzer Based on Integrated Flow Field (IFF) Structure | Completed | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | ElectroChem, Inc. |
| 50 mJ Monolithic 2 um Pulsed Fiber Laser Transmitter in 200 ns Regime with Transform-Limited Linewidth Based on Highly Tm-Doped Germanate Fibers | Completed | 4 | Lasers | NP Photonics, Inc. |
| Small Space Platform Enhanced Internet Protocol Stack Device | Completed | 6 | Flight and Ground Systems | Broadata Communications, Inc. |
| Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI) | Completed | 9 | Atmosphere Characterization | Langley Research Center |
| Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) | Completed | 7 | Timekeeping and Time Distribution | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Human Exploration Telerobotics (HET) | Completed | 7 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | Ames Research Center |
| Evolvable Cryogenics (eCryo) | Completed | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Glenn Research Center |
| Composites for Exploration Upper Stage (CEUS) | Completed | 6 | Manufacturing Processes | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Integrated Solar Array and Reflectarray Antenna (ISARA) | Completed | 7 | Innovative Antennas | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| PhoneSat | Completed | 7 | Avionics Component Technologies | Ames Research Center |
| Nanosatellite Payload Reentry and Recovery | Completed | 4 | Orbital Debris Mitigation | Ames Research Center |
| Autonomous Assembly of Structures in Space | Completed | 3 | Microgravity Construction and Assembly | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Automatic Parallelization of Serial Programs for NASA Space‐Based Computing Systems | Completed | 3 | Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset | University of Maryland-College Park |
| Implementation and Assessment of a Time-Accurate Aeroelastic Model for Analysis of Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators | Completed | 3 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Development of Magnetic-Plasmonic Nanoparticle Sensors for the Apprehension, Removal and Treatment (ART) of Microbial Contamination in Water | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Case Western Reserve University |
| Human-In-The-Loop Control of a Bipedal Robot with Variable Levels of Autonomy | Completed | 3 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | Rice University |
| Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments Mission Design | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Two-Stage, 20 K Pulse Tube Cryocooler for Space Studies | Completed | 3 | In-Space Propellant Storage and Use | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Characterization and Modeling of High-Strain Rate Failure Response of Nanocomposites | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Auburn University |
| Task Allocation Using Continuous Resource Distributed Markov Decision Processes | Completed | 3 | Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling | University of Southern California |
| Unsteady Simulation of Dual-Mode Transition Flows Using a Hybrid LES/RANS Approach with Improved Sub-Grid Scale Models | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Flowpath and Interactions | University of Virginia-Main Campus |
| Computational Approaches for Developing Active Radiation Dosimeters for Space Applications Based on New Paradigms for Risk Assessment | Completed | 4 | Monitoring Technology | Colorado State University-Fort Collins |
| Cathode Coupling Physics in a Hall Thruster | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Developing Transition Edge Sensors for New Space-Based Applications | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Computational Modeling of Hall Thruster Erosion | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Quantitative Measurements of Ablation-Products Transport for Turbulence Model Validation | Completed | 3 | Thermal Protection Systems | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Fundamentals of Gravity and Tube Size Effects on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer | Completed | 3 | Heat Transport | University of Maryland-College Park |
| Developing Instrumentation for Ground and Balloon-Borne Observing Platforms | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Brown University |
| Excitonics Based on Carbon Nanomaterials: a Pathway Toward Low-Power, High-Speed, and Radiation-Hard Computation | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Northwestern University |
| Design and Development of a Next Generation High Capacity, Light Weight, 20 K Pulse Tube Cryocooler for Active Thermal Control on Future Space Exploration Missions | Completed | 4 | In-Space Propellant Storage and Use | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus |
| Experiments on the Combined Effects of Roughness and Momentum Injection on Turbulence over an Ablative Thermal Protection System | Completed | 3 | Thermal Protection Systems | University of Kentucky |
| Rapid Design and Navigation Tools to Enable Small-Body Missions | Completed | 3 | Navigation Technologies | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Reduced Order Electrostatic Force Field Modeling of 3D Spacecraft Shapes | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Colorado Boulder |
| A Novel Highly Efficient Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation | Completed | 3 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Tailorable Porous Ceramics via Freeze Casting | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Northwestern University |
| Detector Development for Polarization Studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Princeton University |
| Lifecycle Reusable Functional Digital Materials | Completed | 3 | Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Processes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Characterization and Modeling of Neutron and Gamma-Ray Radiation Damage in Silicon Carbide Semi-Conductor Materials and Silica Optical Fibers at Cryogenic Temperature | Completed | 3 | Materials for Extreme Environments | Ohio State University-Main Campus |
| Study of Magnetic Nozzle Effects on Plasma Plumes | Completed | 3 | Electrostatic Propulsion | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| Modeling Propellant Tank Dynamics | Completed | 3 | Hybrids | Stanford University |
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