As a remote sensing spectrometer on board a Venus orbiter, V-WiSHeS will observe the gaseous chemical composition, aerosol capacity, thermal structure, and dynamics of Venus’ middle atmosphere.

Atomic Drag-free Accelerometer

Gravity measurements with flyby or orbiter around planetary bodies with heavy atmosphere or strong solar radiations, emphasized in 2013-2020 planetary decadal

Mars Sonic Anemometer

Mars primarily, but also Titan and Venus surface/aerial platforms, Earth stratosphere, Saturn/Ice Giant Probes with adaption

Advanced Resolution Organic Molecular Analyzer

Enceladus, Europa, Ceres, Primitive bodies, Inner Planets

Water Exploration

Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on an Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP)

Comets fly-by on a CubeSat/SmallSat

Icy Body Spectrometer

Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration

Europa, Enceladus, and other icy bodies with extensions to planetary atmospheres.

Chemical Identification

in-Situ Spectroscopic Europa Explorer (iSEE)

Planetary surface (landers, rovers), orbiters, and flythrough configurations.

Gravity Measurement

Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer for Planetary Dynamics

- Primary: gravity missions for Mars and Venus
- Secondary: gravity missions to small bodies

Mapping

Space Exploration Synthetic Aperture Radar (SESAR): A Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Subsurface Imaging

Mars, Moon, Venus, airless body orbital radar for surface and subsurface mapping.

Martian Water

WASSR: WAter Sounding Short-range Radar

Mars surface

Mapping Lidar

Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation

Airless body surfaces, asteroids, comet core, or planets.

Chromatography

Ion/Liquid Chromatography for Exploration of Solar System (ILCESS)

Mars (sub)surface; airless body surfaces, planetary body flyby or orbiter.

X-ray Spectrometer

Mapping X-ray Spectrometer (MapX)

Mars surface, airless body surfaces, Ocean Worlds.

Organic Analysis

Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA)

Icy moon e.g., Enceladus plume fly-by / orbiter; icy moon lander; comet in situ organic analysis

Heterodyne Spectrometers

Reflective spatial heterodyne spectrometers for high-resolving power emission line characterization from orbital and remote missions

All planetary and satellite atmospheres and space weather. Weakly to strongly active small bodies. Active water environments.

Remote Observation

A Maturation Project for a Submillimeter Enceladus Life Fundamentals Instrument (SELFI)

SELFI will remotely observe the chemical composition and dynamics of Enceladus’ plumes Before, During, and After in situ plume encounters thus proving both context and targeting data for a sampling mission.

Broadband Seismometer

A Planetary Broadband Seismometer (PBBS) for the Lunar Geophysical Network and the Ocean Worlds

Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN), Ocean Worlds landers.

Vector Magnetometer

Miniature Absolute Vector Magnetometer for Resource-Constrained Solar System Body Exploration

Planetary bodies and satellites with remanent and/or induced magnetic fields.

Building Rb Lasers

Partial Maturation of CDEX: Building Rb Lasers for CDEX

The Moon Mars

Global Climate Measurements

MARLI: MARs LIdar for global climate measurements from orbit

Mars and Titan atmospheres from orbit

MatISSE

Next-Generation Cold Object Radiometer (COBRA)

V-WiSHeS: Venus Wideband Submillimeter Heterodyne Spectrometer