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 ⓘ |
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| Bi-Fold Fan DragSail with Surface Area Modulation Capability | Completed | 5 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| GasPak: A High Output, Clean Gas Generator for Large Volume Deployable Aerodynamic Decelerators | Completed | 4 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for In-Space and Extraterrestrial Surface Metal Welding and Joining | Completed | 3 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Sediment Sequestration for Hot Water Drilling Cryobots | Completed | 3 | Robotic Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Superconducting coil operating at temperatures above 15K for ADR instruments | Completed | 6 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Portable Traffic Management Tool for Wildfire Operations | Completed | 6 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Innovative System for Aircraft Emissions Reduction and Performance Improvement | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Design and Material Testing for a Self-contained system for Microgravity Sample Preparation | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| On-Orbit Solution Recycling Methods to Improve Scale of Layer-by-Layer Artificial Retina Manufacturing | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| (COSMOS) Compact Standoff Biomolecular Observation System | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Efficient Models for Film Condensation in Cryogenic Tank Applications | Completed | 2 | Thermal Management Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Accelerated Creep Test Methodologies for Space Habitat Softgood Structural Materials | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| High Emissivity Channel Materials | Completed | 3 | Propulsion Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| DoseShield Packaging for Improved Pharmaceutical Protection in Space | Completed | 3 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| A Modular, High-Efficiency, Radiation-Hardened, DC-DC Converter with Decentralized Control | Completed | 4 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Design of the VH-3 Powered Speedbird Hybrid AAM Demonstrator | Completed | — | Flight Vehicle Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Novel Vapor Chambers for Heating and Cooling of Advanced Sorption Systems | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Passive Nano-and Micro-Textured Dust-Mitigation Surfaces in Space-Grade Materials Made with a Highly-Scalable Fabrication Process | Completed | 4 | Exploration Destination Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Adapting 100G Optical Comm to Unique NASA Small Satellite DSM Applications | Completed | 4 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Pressure and Low Temperature Tolerant, High Current Density Solid Electrolyte for Propellant Grade Reactants | Completed | 5 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| IoT-Inspired Wireless Sensor Networks for Ground and Flight Test Instrumentation | Completed | 2 | Ground, Test, and Surface Systems | Stennis Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Millimeter-Wave Camera | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Satellite Servicing TechnologiesSingle Aperture Multifunctional Optical Sensor | Completed | 5 | Robotic Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Rad-Hard Ga2O3 Diodes | Completed | 4 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Active Microwave Thermography Prototype Development for use as an In-Space Nondestructive Evaluation Tool | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Advanced Deployable/Inflatable Antenna Apertures at Frequencies up to Millimeter-Wave | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Microscale Weather Based Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Optimization System | Completed | 6 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| IR Thermography Based Real-time In-situ Defect Detection and Elimination of Defect Propagation for In-Space Additively Manufactured Structures | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Au-TiO2-Al2O3 nanocomposites for multi-analyte detection and plant health monitoring | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Coupled Resonator Power Combiner (COREPOWER) | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| EDORAS: Easing the Development of Robot Applications for Space Missions | Completed | 2 | Robotic Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Optimized Miniature Spectrometer for Improved Trace Gas Monitoring and Satellite Validation | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Low-cost UAS for Wildfire Logistics and Management | Completed | 5 | Autonomous Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Moving Discontinuous Galerkin Solver for Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics | Completed | 3 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Low Cost, Low Power, Low Latency 1602 nm 100 Gbps NRZ Laser–EAM for a 7.2 Tbps Transmitter. | Completed | 6 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Full-Scale eVTOL Aircraft Performance and Aeroacoustic Test, Evaluation, and Modeling | Completed | 6 | Flight Vehicle Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| High-Altitude, Long-Endurance, Visible Through Extended SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging for Earth Sciences | Completed | 3 | Robotic Systems | Ames Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Miniature TOF Mass Spectrometer with Enhanced Resolution | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Low SWaP-C RemoteID Device for UAS | Completed | 5 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Quantum-memory Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (QWDM) | Completed | 5 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Space-Rated Modular Robotic Building Blocks | Completed | 1 | Robotic Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Numerical Simulation of Fields in Cavities with Detailed Antenna Modeling | Completed | 6 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| S17.03 - Fault Management Technologies | Completed | 3 | Autonomous Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| QPICS: Quantum Dot Photonic Integrated Circuits on Silicon | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Highly Photorealistic Programmable 3D Worlds | Completed | 4 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Design Cycle Prediction Software for Wing-Strut Junction Flow Noise | Completed | 4 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| A Physics-Based Approach to Solving the Near Angle Scatter Dilemma (FRTS) | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Low-alpha, variable emissivity radiator (LAVER) panels for passive thermal regulation of spacecraft | Completed | 4 | Thermal Management Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Solar-Blind Solid-State Energetic Particle Detection for Next-Generation Instruments | Completed | 1 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Wireless Channel Simulation and Coverage Analysis for Lunar Environments | Completed | 3 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
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