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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| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Printing of Hierarchical Foams in Microgravity | Completed | 6 | Manufacturing Processes | West Virginia University | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Navigation Doppler Lidar Sensor Demonstration for Precision Landing on Solar System Bodies | Completed | 6 | Touchdown Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Low-Cost Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (sRLV) Surrogate to test Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Near Space Corporation | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Suborbital Flight Environment Monitor (SFEM) Testing | Completed | 9 | Environment Sensors | Ames Research Center | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Electromagnetic Field Measurements on sRLV | Completed | 7 | Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Microgravity Health Care | Completed | 8 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Henry Ford Health System | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Environment monitoring suite on suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (sRLV) (sRLV) | Completed | 8 | Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Flight Testing of a Universal Access Tranceiver (UAT) Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) Transmitter Prototype for Commercial Space Transportation Using Reusable Launch Vehicles | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Test of Satellite Communications Systems on-board Suborbital Platforms to Provide Low-Cost Data Communications for Research Payloads, Payload Operators, and Space Vehicle Operators | Completed | 6 | Quantum Communications | Solstar Space Company | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Reduced Gravity Flight Demonstration of the Resonant Inductive Near-field Generation System (RINGS) (RINGS) | Completed | 5 | Relative Navigation Sensors | University of Maryland-College Park | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Planetary Atmosphere Minor Species Sensor (PAMSS) Testing | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | University of Central Florida | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Suborbital Test of a Robotics-Based Method for In-Orbit Identification of Spacecraft Inertia Properties | Completed | 6 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | New Mexico State University-Main Campus | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Demonstration of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nano-tubes for Earth Climate Remote Sensing | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory | 2026-04-30 | — |
| Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge | Canceled | 5 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Autonomous Rover Navigation Enhancement | Active | — | — | — | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Astronaut-Deployed Electrical Power System with Active Lunar Dust Mitigation | Completed | 6 | Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| JOEEE Hopping Cartwheeling Mobility Platform | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Intelligent Extensible Mission Architectures (IEMA) Verification and Validation (IEMA) | Completed | 6 | Engineering and Integrity | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Development of an Ion-Electron Plasma Spectrometer | Completed | 5 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Planetary Surface Navigational Autonomy through 3D Sensing | Completed | 4 | Surface Mobility | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Science S/C End-to-End ACS Testbed | Completed | 5 | GN&C Actuators for 6DOF Spacecraft Control During Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Planetary Trajectory Design Using Generative AI Tools | Completed | 4 | Trajectory Design and Analysis | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Acoustic Sensors In Situ Space Debris Detector | Completed | 4 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Developing the Machinery for in-situ Data-Driven Simulations | Completed | 3 | Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multifidelity Simulation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| 3D Cloud Reconstruction in Multi-Angle Polarimetry with a Foundation Model | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| WFF 6 Port Ethernet Switch (WFFES-6) | Completed | 4 | High-Speed Onboard Interconnects and Networks | Wallops Flight Facility | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Completing the Next Generation MUSTANG Processor | Completed | 3 | Flight Computing and Avionics | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Feasibility Study on Simultaneous Transmission of Higher Order Modulated Telemetry with PN Ranging | Completed | 3 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Photonic Radar Technology for Earth Science | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Planetary Defense Potential Hazardous Object Mass Determinations | Completed | 3 | GN&C | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Orbital Lunar Lidar for Early Site Assessment and Hazard-Mapping | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| AI Enabled Curiosity Driven Earth Exploration | Completed | 5 | Robotic Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Rapid Search Algorithms for Multiple Gravity-Assist Trajectories | Completed | 4 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-01 | — |
| Design and Implementation Tools for Lunar Surface Regolith Structure Construction | Completed | 3 | Surface Construction and Assembly | Lunar Outpost, Inc. | 2026-05-04 | — |
| A Reduced gravity Chilldown and Transfer Investigation using Cryogens (ARCTIC) | Canceled | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Glenn Research Center | 2026-05-04 | — |
| Polar-Linear Displacement Torque Meter for Cryogenic Turbomachinery | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-04 | — |
| Sustained Stress Crack Growth Monitoring in Polymeric Structural Materials with Acoustic Emission | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-04 | — |
| Additive Manufacturing ASCENT Propulsion Catalyst Beds | Completed | 4 | Propulsion Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-04 | — |
| Electron Beam Dust Mitigation Technology | Active | 4 | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Space Dust Research & Technologies LLC | 2026-05-05 | Medium |
| Sample Return Robot (SRR) | Completed | 6 | Robot Navigation and Path Planning | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-05 | — |
| Mars Ascent Vehicle II | Completed | 4 | Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-05 | — |
| Vascular Tissue Challenge | Completed | 4 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-05 | — |
| Improved Design of the VASIMR Radio Frequency Transmission Line | Completed | 5 | Heat Transport | Ad Astra Rocket Company | 2026-05-05 | — |
| Add MCDC Analysis to the Open Source Gcov Tool | Completed | 8 | Avionics Performance, Reliability, and Fault-Tolerance Analysis and Modeling | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Building Scientific Machine Learning Foundation Models for LaRC SMD: showcases studies for active and passive radiative transfer simulations | Completed | 3 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Langley Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Sample Return from the Surface of Venus | Completed | — | Other Propulsion Systems | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Developing Cherenkov detector technology for a new SEP instrument | Completed | 2 | Field and Particle Detectors | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Advancing and Validating Galvanic Induced Disorientation Simulation Trainer (GIST) | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Soterix Medical, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Deep Space Food Challenge - Phase 2 (DSFC) | Completed | 3 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| An Additively Manufactured Deployable Radiator with Oscillating Heat Pipes (AMDROHP) to Enable High Power Lunar CubeSats (AMDROHP) | Completed | 5 | Heat Rejection and Storage | California State University-Los Angeles | 2026-05-06 | — |
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