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 378 of 424.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous Science with a Network of in situ Gas Sensors | Completed | 3 | Autonomous Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| A 3D hiPSC cortical tissue model for quantifying the effects of galactic cosmic radiation on functional cortical networks | Active | 2 | Radiation Mitigation and Biological Countermeasures | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Advancement in the Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (CADR) Technology For The Next Generation Of Cryogenic Detectors | Completed | 5 | Cryogenic/Thermal Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Development of a Plasma Injector for Supersonic Drag Reduction | Completed | 3 | Aerodynamics | Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Cryogenic and Vacuum Compatible Metrology Systems | Completed | 3 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Flexure Engineering | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Low Temperature, High Energy Density Micro Thin Film Solid Oxide Fuel Cell | Completed | 4 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Nano EnerTex | 2026-05-06 | — |
| A Grid-Based, Bayesian Approach to Uncertainty Propagation for Icy-Moon Missions | Active | 2 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | University of California-San Diego | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Toward Universal Quantum Optimal Photonic Processing Using Quantum Computation | Active | 2 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | University of Arizona | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of extraterrestrial CO2 using nanofibrous catalytic membrane reactors | Completed | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Plasma Fairings for Quieting Aircraft Landing Gear Noise | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | Innovative Technology Applications Co. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Solar System-Scale VLBI to Dramatically Improve Cosmological Distance Measurements | Completed | — | Lasers | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Touchless Charge Sensing of Neighboring Spacecraft in Cislunar Space | Completed | 2 | Other Advanced Concepts for Generating and Converting Power | University of Colorado Boulder | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Integrated System Health Management for Flexible Exploration | Completed | 4 | Onboard Navigation Algorithms | Qualtech Systems, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Low-Cost Lidar for Wake-Vortex and Other Hazard Detection | Completed | 5 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Q-Peak, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Mission-Aware Payloads for Unmanned Platforms | Completed | 4 | Learning and Adaptation | Mosaic ATM, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Bayesian Uncertainty Propagation Using Multi-Fidelity Subsystem Models in Design of Precision-Pointed Space Telescopes | Completed | 2 | Uncertainty Quantification and Nondeterministic Simulation Methods | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Near-Noiseless Receiver Agnostic Phase-Sensitive Pre-amplifier Based on PPLN Waveguides for High Speed Optical Near-Earth/Near-Lunar Satellite Networks | Completed | 4 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Drone Facilitated Instrumentation for Electric-Field & Lightning Detection (Drone-FIELD) | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Quantitative Optimization of Planetary Excavation Methods | Active | 2 | Resource Acquisition, Isolation, and Preparation | University of Central Florida | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Exploring Electrostatic Regolith Interactions in Low-gravity | Completed | 7 | Ground Analogs for Space and Surface Systems | University of Central Florida | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Increasing the Technology Readiness of a Novel, Scalable Electro-Responsive Soft Actuator | Completed | 2 | Flexible Material Systems | Yale University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Automated Patterning of Customized Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Spacesuit Pressure Garment Arm Assemblies | Completed | 2 | Pressure Garment | Texas A & M University-College Station | 2026-05-06 | — |
| CC21 Lunar Gateway Cargo Packing & Storing | Completed | 2 | Maintainability and Supportability | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Vacuum-Regenerable Sorbent for NASA’s Exploration Portable Life Support System | Completed | 6 | — | XploSafe, LLC | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Stretchable Shape-sensing Skins: Closing the Loop on Shape Change in Soft Robots | Active | 2 | State Estimation | Yale University | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Turbine Engine Performance Estimation Using Particle Filters | Completed | 3 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Optimal Synthesis, Inc. | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Broadband mid-infrared silicon metalenses based on data-driven inverse design for space deployment | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Stanford University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Functionalization of Nanoporous Covalent Organic Frameworks to Enhance Processability and Broaden Separation Applications | Completed | 2 | Water Recovery and Management | Arizona State University-Tempe | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Flight Testing of Advanced Powered Descent Guidance Algorithms | Active | 4 | Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing | San Diego State University | 2026-05-06 | Medium |
| Design, Control, and Human-Robot Coordination of Space Suits Integrated with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs | Active | 2 | Pressure Garment | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | High |
| CAMDLES: A Computational Platform for Microbial Systems Simulations Under Spaceflight Conditions | Completed | 4 | Radiation Transport and Risk Modeling | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Machine Learning Tools for Predicting Solar Energetic Particle Hazards | Completed | 4 | Space Weather Prediction | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Fieldable, Real-Time NO2 Sensor | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Novawave Technologies | 2026-05-06 | — |
| The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) | Completed | — | Other Sensors and Instruments | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | — |
| NeuralGPR: Neural Radiance Tomography for Subsurface Lunar Ice Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar | Completed | 1 | Onboard Mapping and Data Analysis | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Multi-A.U. SOLAROSA Concentrator Solar Array for Space Science Missions | Completed | 4 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Deployable Space Systems, Inc | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Inflatable Habitat with Integrated Primary and Secondary Structure | Completed | 4 | Habitation Systems | Paragon Space Development Corporation | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table (M2T) | Active | 1 | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) | Completed | — | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| SPLICE (Safe & Precise Landing Integrated Capabilities Evolution) | Completed | 6 | Architecture Design and Analysis | Johnson Space Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Radiation hardness study of superconducting detectors and electronics | Active | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026-05-06 | High |
| Low-power Array for CubeSat Edge Computing Architecture, Algorithms and Applications (LACE-C3A) | Completed | 3 | Edge Computing | Utah State University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| An Autonomous Optical Navigation Instrument for Deep Space Exploration | Completed | 3 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 2026-05-06 | — |
| SHERPA: Robust Precomputed Autonomy (RPA) Module | Completed | 2 | Anomaly Detection | Ames Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| AlGaN-based Electronic Devices for Remote Sensing Applications in Extreme Environments | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | North Carolina State University at Raleigh | 2026-05-06 | — |
| DEployable Membrane Optical commuNication System Tech Demo (DEMONS) | Completed | 2 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI) | Completed | — | Optical Components | — | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Development of a Miniaturized; Multipurpose Coherent Optical Terminal | Completed | 3 | Optimetrics | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Electrically Tunable Quasioptical Filters Enabled by Inverse Design of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metasurfaces | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Baylor University | 2026-05-06 | — |
| Fault Tolerant RISC-V Flight Computer with Coprocessor Support (RadPC+Coprocessor) | Active | 6 | Low-Power Embedded Computer Systems | Resilient Computing | 2026-05-06 | Medium |
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