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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14,851 projects harvested so far — page 6 of 298.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight Light Sail Propulsion | Completed | 3 | Solar Sails | Johnson Space Center |
| Upgrade of the HIWRAP Ka-band Transceiver | Completed | 1 | Power Efficiency | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Sensor Substrate Development | Completed | 4 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Johnson Space Center |
| Microgravity Cell Counter: A Simple Hand-held Low-cost Device for In-flight WBC/Differential | Completed | — | Prevention and Countermeasures | Johnson Space Center |
| Woven Thermal Protection System (WTPS) | Completed | — | Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL | Ames Research Center |
| Slosh Analysis and Integration with Freespace | Completed | 5 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| A Test-as-You-Fly X-ray Pulsar Navigation Capability for Advanced Exploration Systems | Completed | 5 | Revolutionary PNT Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Next-generation cold object radiometer | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| Multi-Platform, Scalable, and Modular Rover Flight Software Control Algorithms and Architectures for Autonomous ISRU Excavation, Transportation, and Deposition for Lunar Operations | Completed | 3 | Surface Mobility | Protoinnovations, LLC |
| Dual-Band Full Duplex Ka-Band and X-band High Gain Antenna Feed Development | Completed | 3 | Innovative Antennas | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Bio-manufacturing for Space Applications (SynBio) | Completed | 2 | Logistics Management | Ames Research Center |
| Technology Development for Future Spaceborne Remote Sensing Radars | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| KickSat: A Crowd-Funded Technology Demonstration Mission for the Sprite ChipSat | Completed | 7 | Aerodynamic Decelerators | Ames Research Center |
| Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Operations Challenge (UAS AOC) | Completed | 4 | Architectures and Infrastructure | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Completion of the Future SpaceCube-Navigator GPS Flight Platform and Maturation of Key Technologies on the Navigation Technology Roadmap | Completed | 4 | Attitude Estimation Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Alkaline Exchange Membrane (AEM) for High-Efficiency Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers and Regenerative Fuel Cell Systems | Completed | — | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Development of Micro Gas Chromatography Flight Instrumentation | Completed | 2 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Next generation global Earth atmospheric composition sounders for the decadal survey requirements and roadmaps (GACM) | Completed | — | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ultra-Stable Bolometer Structures with 1/f Noise Suppression | Completed | 3 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Collaborative Assistive Tool To Enable Novel Solutions (CATTENS) Enhanced Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) | Completed | 8 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Doppler Wind Lidar Measurements and Scalability to Space | Completed | 5 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Neuromorphic chip for sensing, situational awareness, and decision making in radiative environments | Completed | 4 | High-Performance Processors | Mentium Technologies Inc. |
| Atmosphere Resource Recovery & Environmental Monitoring for Long Duration Exploration Project (ARREM) | Completed | 3 | Commodity Recovery | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Software Defined Network Controller and Switch | Completed | 2 | Data Reduction Hardware Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Information Fusion for Real-Time National Air Transportation System Prognostics under Uncertainty | Completed | 3 | High-Fidelity Simulation and Visualization | Arizona State University-Tempe |
| A High Repetition Rate, Scalable, Pulsed PPU for Electric Propulsion Applications | Completed | 3 | Electromagnetic Propulsion | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| High-Performance Advanced Receiver Processor (HARP) | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Aerosol Jet Printing 5-Axis toolpath generating software for printing Hard X-Ray Photoelectric Polarimeter Detector Assemblies | Completed | 3 | Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| A Prototype Machine learning-based all-sky radiance data assimilation framework at microwave and submillimeter frequencies in preparation for AOS and CoSSIR | Completed | 3 | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Multifunctional Composite Structure | Completed | 2 | Innovative and Multifunctional Concepts | Johnson Space Center |
| Lunar CATALYST | Completed | 4 | Destination Resource Exploration | NASA Headquarters |
| Building and Testing Engineering & Production Development Modules to Demonstrate the Technical Readiness of the Single Crystal X-ray Mirror Technology for AXIS, HEX-P, and LEM | Completed | 5 | Sensors and Instruments | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Liquid Crystal Facility (LCF) | Completed | 4 | Special Materials | Glenn Research Center |
| Inflatable Module Seal Interface Development and Testing | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Johnson Space Center |
| Development of the SUBLIME seismometer for future Lunar missions | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| High-Performance, High Thrust, “Green” Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle for Lunar and Deep Space Missions | Completed | 5 | Other Propulsion Systems | Flight Works, Inc. |
| Advancement of Miniature X-ray Source for Remote and In-Space Inspection (Mini X-ray Source) | Completed | 3 | Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GeneLab | Completed | 9 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Ames Research Center |
| Compressive Sensing Algorithm Development for Time-Series Photometric Measurements | Completed | 2 | Advanced Commercial-off-the-Shelf Technologies | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| NASA Earth Science Communications: Airplane to TDRSS | Completed | 9 | Flight and Ground Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| MM-Wave Radiometer Front-end Development | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Orbital Debris Impact Sensor Engineering Model | Completed | 3 | Orbital Debris Characterization | Johnson Space Center |
| Mini Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (miniTOCA) | Completed | 3 | Logistics Management | Johnson Space Center |
| Cold Atom Lab (CAL) | Active | 7 | Other Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LASVEGAS on the Moon: A Hypertunable IR laser Spectrometer for the Analysis of Volatiles | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio |
| Air Quality Analytics Collaborative Framework (ACF) | Completed | 4 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| NextSTEP-2 Habitation | Completed | 5 | Logistics Management | NASA Headquarters |
| Global Climate Measurement | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Cube/Small Satellite Antenna Design and Performance Optimization | Completed | 3 | Innovative Antennas | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| FY18-C1 GRC: Self-Extinguishing Arcs: Engineering a Solution to Generalized High Voltage Solar Arrays | Completed | 3 | Photovoltaic Electrical Power | Glenn Research Center |
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