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 375 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improving Lunar Map Resolution With AI | Completed | 3 | Destination Resource Exploration | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Non-invasive Detection of Liquid Propellant Location During Microgravity Transfer | Active | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Carthage College | 2026-05-06 | Medium |
| Exploring Surface Properties through High-Fidelity Measurements | Active | 4 | Cryogenic Analysis, Safety, and Properties | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | Medium |
| Luminescent Module Integrating Novel Analytes: A Computational Platform for Tunable Biomolecule Detection (LUMINA) | Completed | 2 | Atomic and Molecular Species Assessment | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Site Preparation Tooling for Operations on Mobility Platforms (STOMP) | Completed | 2 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Serious Games for Team Training | Completed | 5 | Behavioral Health and Performance | Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Autonomous Multiagent Search-and-Image Tasking for Satellite Constellations | Active | 2 | Joint Knowledge and Understanding | University of Colorado Boulder | 2026-05-06 | High |
| SWIFT-HPX - High Data Rate Ka-band Commications for Small Satellites | Completed | 4 | Spectrum Efficiency | Tethers Unlimited Inc | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Autonomous Distributed Mars Position; Navigation; and Timing | Completed | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| A Novel System for Analyzing the Local State of the Environment Preceding Wildfires with the Goal to Develop Wildfire Predictors | Completed | 3 | Modeling | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Efficient and Robust RFS-SLAM with Probabilistic Extended Feature Models | Completed | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Electro-Luminescently Cooled Zero-Boil-Off Propellant Depots Enabling Crewed Exploration of Mars | Completed | — | Other Propulsion Systems | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Roll-Out De-Orbiting Device | Completed | 4 | Passive Reentry Systems for SmallSats | Composite Technology Development, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| CubeSat High Impulse Propulsion System (CHIPS) | Completed | 4 | Cold Gas | CU Aerospace, LLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| MARS-C – Mars Atmospheric Reactor for Synthesis of Consumables | Active | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 2026-05-06 | Medium |
| Let It Go (After Latching): Synchronized Antenna Deployment System | Completed | 3 | Structures and Antennas | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Seeing Sound - Image Analysis of the Lift-off Acoustic Field | Completed | 6 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Leaping Catch, LLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Water vapor Infrared Sunlight Sounder with PICs (WISSP) | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Life; Machine Learning; and the Search for Habitability | Completed | 2 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| BIG: Building Intelligent Gradients in additively manufactured space engine materials via a multiscale predictive framework | Completed | 2 | Manufacturing Processes | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 2026-05-06 | — |
| NASA MarsXR Challenge | Completed | 3 | Simulation-Based Training and Decision Support Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Optical sensing techniques for monitoring the status and lifetime of exploration air filtration systems | Completed | 2 | Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses | Glenn Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| ReachBot: Small Robot for Large Mobile Manipulation Tasks in Martian Cave Environments | Completed | 3 | Contact Dynamics Modeling | Stanford University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Digital Twins for Controlled Environment Plant Production in Space | Completed | 2 | Transformative Health and Performance Concepts | University of Florida | 2026-05-06 | — |
| BREEZE: Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration (BREEZE) | Completed | 3 | Integrated Flight Operations Systems | SUNY Buffalo State | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Miniaturized Radiation Hardened Beam-Steerable GPS Receiver Front End | Completed | 4 | Attitude Estimation Sensors | Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc., | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Cableway for Lunar Surface Operations (CLSO) | Completed | 1 | Surface Construction and Assembly | Langley Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Electrochemical in-situ resource utilization of urine-derived nitrogen for sustainable space travel and habitation | Completed | 2 | Water Recovery and Management | Stanford University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Wideband, Low-power Multi-mode MMIC Radar Transceivers with Phase Control and Integrated Baseband Signal Processing | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Linear Signal, LLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Robust Autonomous Aerial Capture | Completed | 3 | GN&C | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Compact Spaceborne Magnetic Observatory (COSMO) | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of Colorado Boulder | 2026-05-06 | — |
| REALMS - Ruggedized Extreme Environment Advanced LiDAR Mapping System | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Lightweight Fiber-based RF Antenna | Completed | — | Innovative Antennas | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Architectural Design Framework for Providing Passive Behavioral Health Countermeasures | Active | 2 | Behavioral Health and Performance | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Leveraging π-Backbonding Interactions in Tunable Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Selectivity of CO in a Series-Bosch Reactor | Completed | 2 | Atmosphere Revitalization | University of California-Berkeley | 2026-05-06 | — |
| In-Space Friction Stir Welding Machine | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Longhurst Engineering, PLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Low noise millimeter wave amplifiers for space science and technology: a study of hot electron noise | Completed | 2 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | California Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Nonlinear AeroServoElastic Reduced Order Model for Active Structural Control | Completed | 4 | Aeroelasticity | CFD Research Corporation | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Qualification of Photon Sieves for a Solar High Angular Resolution Photometric Imager | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Photonic Quantum Computing for Autonomous Navigation and Planning | Completed | 2 | Activity and Resource Planning and Scheduling | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cryogenic Liquid Acquisition Device | Completed | 6 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Creare, LLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| High-Density Energy Storage Technology | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Giner, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Pose Bowl: Spacecraft Pose Detection and Estimation | Completed | 9 | Guidance and Targeting Algorithms | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Risk-Bounded; Goal Driven AI for Human Planetary Exploration | Completed | 3 | Path Planning | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Enabling in-situ resource utilization in space through gas fermentation: testing novel gas delivery methods in a microgravity environment | Completed | 6 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Mango Materials Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Scandate Cathode for High Power Long Life Electric Propulsion | Completed | 4 | Electrostatic Propulsion | E-beam, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| An ADS-B derived ATC linked ER System for NextGen Safety | Completed | 7 | Environment Sensors | Munro and Associates | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Break the Ice - Phase 1 | Completed | 4 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Affordable Vehicle Avionics (AVA) Flight Testing | Completed | 6 | Ground and Flight Test Technologies | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Coordinated Multi-Robot-Chain for Terrain Estimation and Exploration | Completed | 2 | Collaborative Mobility | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2026-05-06 | — |
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