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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| Lunar Surface Excavation; Excavated Regolith Transport | Completed | 3 | Exploration Destination Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Optimization of Lunar Materials for Launch and Landing Pads | Completed | 2 | Exploration Destination Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| IN-PASS: Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Autonomy for Swarm Systems | Completed | 4 | Robotic Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| In-Space Inductive Foundry: Recycling, Sorting and Casting | Completed | 6 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Reusable Heatshield Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 6 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| An Efficient High-fidelity Design Tool for Advanced Tailorable Composites | Completed | 6 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor | Completed | 4 | Exploration Destination Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Refractory Metal Coated Uranium Nitride Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | Completed | 5 | Propulsion Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Focused LIBS for Elements in Water Identification (FLEW.ID) | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| On-Orbit Additive Manufacturing Using Recycled Waste | Completed | 2 | Exploration Destination Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Solar On-Orbit Welder for Assembly, Repair, and Manufacturing | Completed | 4 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Development of a multifunctional SolidStir manufacturing technology for lunar infrastructure | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Integrated Flight Control Design and Multidisciplinary Optimization | Completed | 4 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Robust Encounter Avoidance and Conflict Resolution for Advanced Air Mobility (REACT-AAM) | Completed | 3 | Autonomous Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Dragster: An Ensemble Assimilative Model for Satellite Drag | Completed | 5 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Rapid Generation of SysML Models using NLP/LLM | Completed | 2 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Programmable Phase Nulling Interferometer | Completed | 6 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| ZEBRA Aerospace Engine | Completed | 2 | Propulsion Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Advanced Composite Design of Origami Inspired Deployable Metaoptic LiDAR Aperture | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Cs Atom Interferometer Laser | Completed | — | Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Waveguide Integrated SNSPDs on Foundry Silicon PICs | Completed | 4 | Sensors and Instruments | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for Radio Frequency (RF) applications | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| High-Sensitivity Isotopically-Purified All-Electrical Chip-Scale Atomic Magnetometers | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Plug & Play Modular Robotic Mining System | Completed | 2 | Exploration Destination Systems | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| TabletFTS - Advanced EFB applications for rapid, lowcost, flight test execution | Completed | 2 | Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| A Low SWAP-C, Narrow-Bandwidth, and High-Channel-Density RF Photonic Integrated Channelizer Based on Serial Arrayed Waveguide Gratings and Liquid Crystal Phase Modulators | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Compact, Low Power, Multi-Parameter Astronaut Life Support Sensor (M-PALSS) | Completed | 4 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Binary Pseudo-Random Array (BPRA) Standards for Inspection and Calibration of Cylindrical Wavefront Interferometry | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Low Pressure Drop Oxygen Flow Meter for the PLSS | Completed | 6 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Decision Support for Water Management in the Specialty Crop Agriculture Sector | Completed | — | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Implementing a Nodal Environment Matrix for Dynamic Path Planning (DPP) | Completed | 2 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Launch Deploy and Docking Mechanism - Half-ESPA Size: Phase II | Completed | 4 | Robotic Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| High-Temperature, MHz-Bandwidth, Miniaturized Heat-Flux Sensors for High-Speed Flows | Completed | 3 | Ground, Test, and Surface Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| All-optical Magnetometer for Extreme Low-Temperature Environments using Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamonds | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Floatinator: A Low Gravity Simulator to Study Plume-Surface Interactions | Completed | 4 | Entry, Descent, and Landing | Kennedy Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| New-generation spacecraft water monitoring with flight ready solid state nanopores | Completed | 5 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Manufacturing Assessment of Tailorable and Ultra-Thin TuFF Composites | Completed | 6 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| In-Time Flight Risk Assessment Tool (IFRAT) with Certification Compliance | Completed | 2 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness | Completed | 4 | Robotic Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Intelligent Sensor System for Rocket Propulsion Testing | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Stennis Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Lunar Joining of Elementary Structures (LUJES) | Completed | 4 | Exploration Destination Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Ceramic Composite Nanofiber Aerogel Insulation for EVA Suits | Completed | 2 | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Flexible Multifunctional Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Inflatable Space Habitat Structures | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Continuous Snow Monitoring for Improved Water Supply Management | Completed | 6 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Universal Battery Integration Module for Hybrid and Electric Aircraft Powertrains | Completed | 4 | Aerospace Power and Energy Storage | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| NextGen Incident Response Communication System | Completed | 2 | Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| A Compact, Gravity-Insensitive Gas Trap for Extreme Temperature Environments | Completed | 4 | Thermal Management Systems | Johnson Space Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Integrated magnetics, insulation, and cooling architecture for robust eVTOL motors | Completed | 5 | Propulsion Systems | Glenn Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Process Simulation & Optimization for Thin-Ply Composites | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Langley Research Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
| Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2026-08-20 | — |
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