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 366 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdVECT: Additive Vehicle-Embedded Cooling Technologies | Completed | 2 | Heat Rejection and Storage | Cornell University |
| Development and Test of Lunar Dust Removal using a Gecko Roller | Completed | 3 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | University of Maryland-College Park |
| Cold-Tolerant Electronics and Packaging for Lunar Surface Exploration | Completed | 5 | Advanced Electronic Parts | Auburn University |
| Elastocaloric Refrigeration for Spaceflight Applications (ERSA) | Active | 2 | Special Materials | Iowa State University |
| Transparent superconductors for single-photon detectors | Active | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| Autonomous Site Preparation: Excavation, Compaction, and Testing (ASPECT) | Completed | 3 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Colorado School of Mines |
| Enhanced Characterization and Structural Modeling of Canopy Fabrics and Parachute Suspension Lines for Advancing FSI Simulations during Inflation and Descent | Completed | 4 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | University of Massachusetts-Lowell |
| Optimization of Oscillating Heat Pipes for Cooling of Space Electronics | Completed | 2 | Heat Transport | University of California-Los Angeles |
| Metamaterial solar sail attitude control system | Completed | 2 | Solar Sails | University of California-Los Angeles |
| Fundamental Experiments of Jet Impingement on Granular Surfaces | Completed | 4 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Lunar-g Combustion Investigation (LUCI) | Completed | 7 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | Glenn Research Center |
| Sorbent-Based Atmosphere Revitalization (SBAR) for Habitation System and Exploration Applications | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | — |
| Mixed Integer Programming for Moon to Mars Campaign Planning and Optimization | Completed | 4 | Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Three-dimensional Hierarchical Structures as Multi-layer Insulation for Terrestrial and Space Applications | Completed | 2 | Thermal Protection Materials | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Bringing Shuttle Orbiter TPS into the 21st Century (SL-TPS - ACO ) | Completed | — | Thermal Protection Systems | Stratolaunch |
| Planetary and Lunar Environment Thermal Toolbox Elements (PALETTE) | Completed | 4 | Heat Transport | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| CONcept For onboard Encryption with SpaceCube SMaCS | Completed | 5 | Flight Computing and Avionics | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Highly Resolution THz Local Oscillator using a Compact Quantum Cascade Laser | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HPSC Evaluation | Completed | 4 | High-Performance Processors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Intelligent Extensible Mission Architectures Systems and Prototypes (IEMA) | Completed | 6 | Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Space Grade Linux for Facilitating Open Source Industry Collaboration | Completed | 5 | Frameworks, Languages, Tools, and Standards | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| cFS – Software Bus Enhancements for Defense in Depth Security (SBEDD) (SBEDD) | Completed | 7 | Software Cyber Security | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Hyperspectral Microwave Photonics Technology Development for the Planetary Boundary Level | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| RaDTwin | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Ground-Based Telemetry Antenna Arraying | Completed | 3 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Wallops Flight Facility |
| Ensuring High Performance μ-Spec Spectrometer Technology Reaches Fruition | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Application of ML to Detection of Anomalies in Spacecraft Health and Status Data | Completed | 4 | Anomaly Detection | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 1040nm 3-D imaging CASALS Lidar for Landing and Long-Distance Navigation | Completed | 4 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Passive fabrication of FUV bandpass filters for HWO spectrograph instrumentation | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Physical vapor deposition coating uniformity optimization for HWO viability assessment | Completed | 7 | Coatings | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Automated Design and Placement of Printed Hybrid Electronics | Completed | 6 | Additive Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 3D Printable Bioreactor for Food Production | Completed | 3 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Ames Research Center |
| Novel Recuperator Design for Cryogenic Fluid Management System | Completed | 2 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| NASA TechLeap Prize: Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge No. 1 | Completed | 5 | Landing | Armstrong Flight Research Center |
| Life Support Systems: Environmental Monitoring | Active | 5 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Johnson Space Center |
| Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) | Completed | 8 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 3D Printed Habitat - Design Competition | Completed | 5 | Surface Construction and Assembly | Kennedy Space Center |
| Asteroid Data Hunter | Completed | 3 | Software Modeling and Model Checking | NASA Headquarters |
| Aftershock: NASA Shock Propagation Prediction Challenge | Completed | 4 | Tests, Tools, and Methods | Langley Research Center |
| Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) | Completed | 2 | Surface Construction and Assembly | Langley Research Center |
| Radiation Tolerant Displays | Active | 4 | Flight Computing and Avionics | Johnson Space Center |
| Space Tether | Completed | 4 | Structures | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Mars Ascent Vehicle I | Completed | 5 | Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Dust Vacuum System (DVS) | Active | 4 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Johnson Space Center |
| Thermal Radiator with Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) (TREDS) | Active | 4 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Kennedy Space Center |
| Small Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System (SmallEP-ACO) | Completed | 5 | Electrostatic Propulsion | — |
| Mini-MARLI, a small lidar for measuring of atmospheric wind and dust profiles from Mars Orbit | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| SmallSat Innovation, Development, & Readiness (SIDR) Center | Completed | 2 | Flight and Ground Testing Methodologies | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Radiation Tolerant Displays | Active | 4 | Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations | Johnson Space Center |
| Mars Exercise System | Active | 2 | Prevention and Countermeasures | Johnson Space Center |
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