Project Portfolio
Our projects develop and mature, to high technology readiness levels (TRL 6), innovative technologies for planetary science exploration.
Project Portfolio
Our projects develop and mature, to high technology readiness levels (TRL 6), innovative technologies for planetary science exploration. The portfolio prioritizes technology developments that enable smaller mass, lower power and more space environment resilient instruments for infusion into future planetary missions that will derive higher fidelity science.
| Project Info | Instrument/Platform | Instrument/Technology Type | Activity_1st_Yr | PI_Institution | PI_LName | PI_FName | Activity_Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MatISSE | Instrument | Suite | 2023 | NASA/GSFC | Brinckerhoff | William | Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI) | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Luminescence Imager | 2023 | NASA Ames Research Center | Quinn | Richard | Luminescence Imager for Exploration | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Saltation sensor | 2023 | NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER | Banfield | Don | Saltation Sensor to TRL6 | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Seismometer | 2023 | THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | DellaGiustina | Daniella | Seismometer to Investigate Interior Asteroid Structure | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | UV Spectrometer | 2023 | Planetary Science Institute | Hendrix | Amanda | UMIS: The Ultraviolet Micromirror Imaging Spectrograph | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Mass Spectrometer | 2021 | USRA | Southard | Adrian | Advanced Resolution Organic Molecular Analyzer | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Gravitometer | 2021 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Yu | Nan | Atomic drag-free accelerometer for non-gravitational forces in radiometric orbit determination and planetary sciencemeasurements | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Anemometer | 2021 | NASA Ames | Banfield | Don | Mars Sonic Anemometer | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | IR Imager | 2021 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Kenyon | Matt | Next-generation cold object radiometer | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | IR Spectrometer | 2021 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Anderson | Carrie | V-WiSHeS: Venus Wideband Submillimeter Heterodyne Spectrometer | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Chromatography | 2019 | University Of Texas, Arlington | Dasgupta | Purnendu | Ion/Liquid Chromatography for Exploration of Solar System (ILCESS) | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Terahertz Spectrometer | 2019 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Chattopadhyay | Goutam | Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on a Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP) | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Gravitometer | 2019 | University of Maryland | Paik | Ho Jung | Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer for Planetary Dynamics | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Radar | 2019 | University Of Arizona | Carter | Lynn | Space Exploration Synthetic Aperture Radar (SESAR): A Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Subsurface Imaging | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Lidar | 2019 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Sun | Xiaoli | Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Raman spectrometer | 2019 | SETI Institute | Sobron | Pablo | In-situ Spectroscopic Europa Explorer (iSEE) | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | IR Spectrometer | 2019 | Southwest Research Institute | Rafkin | Scot | Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration | |
| MatISSE | Instrument | Radar | 2019 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Cooper | Ken | WASSR: WAter-vapor Sounding Short-range Radar for mapping local atmospheric humidity over the Martian surface froman in situ platform | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2023 | NASA Glenn Research Center | Centeno-Gomez | Diana | HOTTech-21 Electronics Fabrication Restoration | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Actuator | 2022 | Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation | Mumm | Erik | A Venus Durable Actuator and Electronics System | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2022 | University of Pittsburgh | Ohodnicki | Paul | Advanced Co-Based Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetics for Extreme Temperature Inductor Applications | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2022 | InnoSys, Inc. | Sadwick | Laurence | A High Temperature Transmitter for Venus Surface Environment | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Sensor | 2022 | GE Research | Andarawis | Emad | High Temperature UV near field Imager | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Sensor | 2022 | NASA Glenn Research Center | Kremic | Tibor | High-Temperature MEMS based Venus seismometer | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Memory | 2022 | NASA Glenn Research Center | Neudeck | Phil | Non-Volatile, Low Power, and High Density SiC Memory For Future Venus Missions | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Power | 2022 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Schwartz | Joel | Venus Surface Solar Array | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Power | 2017 | Johns Hopkins Univ. / Applied Physics Lab | Paul | Michael | Hot Operating Temperature Lithium combustion IN situ Energy and Power System (HOTLINE Power System) | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | Makel Engineering, Inc. | Makel | Darby | SiC Electronics To Enable Long-Lived Chemical Sensor Measurements at the Venus Surface | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | Boeing | Peltz | Leora | Field Emission Vacuum Electronic Devices for Operation above 500 degrees Celsius | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | Arizona State University | Nemanich | Robert | High Temperature Diamond Electronics for Actuators and Sensors | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Power | 2017 | University of Dayton | Kumar | Jitendra | High Energy, Long Cycle Life, and Extreme Temperature Lithium-Sulfur Battery for Venus Missions | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | Arizona State University | Zhao | Yuji | High Temperature GaN Microprocessor for Space Applications | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Power | 2017 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bugga | Ratnakumar | High Temperature-resilient And Long-Life (HiTALL) Primary Batteries for Venus and Mercury Surface Missions | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Memory | 2017 | NASA Glenn Research Center | Neudeck | Phil | High Temperature Memory Electronics for Long-Lived Venus Missions | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Power | 2017 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Grandidier | Jonathan | Low Intensity High Temperature (LIHT) Solar Cells for Venus Exploration Mission | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | Stanford University | Senesky | Debbie | Passively Compensated Low-Power Chip-Scale Clocks for Wireless Communication in Harsh Environments | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Actuators | 2017 | Honeybee Robotics | Zacny | Kris | Development of a TRL6 Electric Motor and Position Sensor for Venus | |
| HOTTECH | Platform | Electronics | 2017 | University of Arkansas | Ang | Simon | 500°C Capable, Weather-Resistant Electronics Packaging for Extreme Environment Exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Thermal Detector | 2024 | University of California, Irvine | Lee | Jaeho | Holey Silicon-based Thermopiles for High-Sensitivity Broadband Thermal Detection | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | LIDAR | 2023 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Cremons | Daniel | Tunable Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Lidar for 4D Volatile Mapping | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Electron Source | 2023 | GSFC | Lim | Lucy | A Robust Electron Source for a Miniaturized Electron Probe for In Situ Elemental Microanalysis | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mössbauer and XRF system | 2023 | JPL | Scott | Valerie | Spectral Instruments for Research in Geochemistry - SInRG | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Infrared Filter | 2023 | Ball Aerospace | Schindhelm | Rebecca | A Selective High-Resolution Metamaterial Filter for Infrared Spectroscopy | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Infrasound Sensor | 2023 | JPL | Bar-Cohen | Yoseph | Deployable Infrasonic Sensor Array (DISA) for Venus Geophysical Studies | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Nuclear Spectrometer | 2023 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Parsons | Ann | INSPECT3R: In Situ Nuclear Spectrometer with 3D Resolution | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Infrared Imager | 2023 | JPL | Soibel | Alex | Faceted Mirror Multiband Imager | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Spatial Heterodyne EUV Interferometer | 2023 | U. Arizona | Corliss | Jason | Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV. Advancement of the Spatial Heterodyne EUV Interferometer (SHEUVI) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Photothermal Spectrometer | 2022 | University of Central Florida | Brisset | Julie | ORIGINS: Photothermal Spectroscopy for Planetary Sciences | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Hybrid Instrument using flurescence and Raman Spectrometer, LIBS | 2022 | University of Virginia | Gupta | Mool | A Miniaturized, Multifunctional, Microscopic Organic/Inorganic Composition Analytical Probe for Planetary in situ Spectroscopy (MOCAPS) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Drilling technology | 2022 | Honeybee Robotics | Bywaters | Kathryn | OptiDrill: The next-generation instrumented drill | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Wide Band Gap Detector | 2022 | NASA GSFC Code 553 | Hewagama | Tilak | PReSSiC: Planetary Remote Sensing using SiC detectors | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Radar | 2022 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Tang | Adrian | CMOS Digital Ground Penetrating Radar with Hardware Embedded Artificial Intelligence for Sub-Surface Exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Laser | 2022 | NASA Langley Research Center | Campbell | Joel | 2-um high-power, high repetition rate pulsed fiber laser for lidar Martian atmospheric CO2 and pressure profiling | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Raman spectrometer | 2021 | University of Central Florida | Bennett | Christopher | Spectroscopy, the Next Generation: A Prototype Remote Temporal 3D-IR Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Science | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Submillimeter spectrometer | 2021 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mehdi | Imran | Submillimeter-wave Line-spectrometer for Isotopologue Measurements (SUBLIME) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | X-ray Optic | 2021 | smithsonian astrophysical observatory | Romaine | Suzanne | Advancing Miniature Lightweight X-ray Optics for Solar System Exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Ion Sensor | 2021 | JPL | Noell | Aaron | Flexible Ion Sensing Array (FISA) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Quantum magnetometer | 2021 | JPL/CalTech | Kraus | Hannes | Optically Pumped Solid-State Quantum Magnetometer OPuS-MAGNM | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Quantum dot sensor | 2021 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Sultana | Mahmooda | Volatile-sensing Array for Planetary Onsite Research (VAPOR) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | FUV fiber optics | 2021 | University of Colorado | Fleming | Brian | Far-Ultraviolet Guiding Fiber Optics for Future Planetary Science Missions | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Fluidic lipid extractor system | 2021 | NASA Ames Research Center | Wilhelm | Mary Beth | KAMELOT: Kerogen And Macromolecule Extractor Liberating Organics Thermolytically | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | UV laser | 2021 | Southwest Research Institute | Moore | Thomas | Solid-State CW Deep UV Laser Source for Planetary Science Instruments | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Quadrapole mass spectrometer | 2021 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Nemchick | Deacon | Quadrupole Ion Trap - Vibrational Action Spectroscopy (QIT-VAS) for Identification of Biomolecules | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Nanopore technology | 2021 | Montana State University | Foreman | Christine | Testing Solid-State Nanopore Technology for Detecting DNA and RNA in Laboratory and Field Experiments: Icy World Analogs | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Organics sample trap | 2021 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bourouiba | Lydia | Bubble-based Ocean-worlds Organics Sample Trap (BOOST) | |
| PICASSO (PLANET) | Instrument | Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and microchip capillary electrophoresis (µCE) | 2020 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Stockton | Amanda | Quantitative Compositional Analysis of Organic and Inorganic Chemical Species on an Icy Moon Penetrator Organic Analyzer | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | LIDAR | 2020 | GSFC | Abshire | James | Small Lidar for Profiling Water Vapor and Winds from Planetary Landers | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Thermal conductance sensor | 2020 | GSFC | Kennedy | Robert | Soil Properties Assessment Resistance and Thermal Analysis (SPARTA) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Wide Band Gap Detector | 2020 | GSFC | Bower | Dina | Ultra-Violet Detector Innovation for Raman Exploration and CharacTerization (UV-DIRECT) of Ocean Worlds | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | LIBS and Raman Spectrometer | 2020 | GSFC | Grubisic | Andrej | RAMS: RAman-Mass Spectrometer for planetary exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Gas chromotography and fluorescence spectroscopy | 2020 | ARC | Summers | David | Detection of Organics by Gas Chromatography/Gas Phase Fluorescence (GC/GPF) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | UV-VIS silicon detector | 2020 | JPL | Nikzad | Shouleh | UV/Visible Photon Counting and Imaging Silicon Detectors for Planetary Science Instruments | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Seisometer | 2020 | ASU | Dai | Lenore | Development of a Rugged Seismometer for Venus Surface Deployment | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Raman sensor | 2020 | University of Kansas | Marshall | Patrick | A feasibility study of Raman optical activity for the detection and discrimination of chiral biological compounds for planetary science instrumentation | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mid-IR sensor | 2020 | Nanohmics Inc | Mann | Chris | An ultra-compact midwave hyperspectral framing camera | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | XRD and XRF | 2020 | SETI | Sarrazin | Philippe | Micro-Sampling System for Mineralogical Instruments | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Microwave radiometer | 2020 | Southwest Research Institute | Bolton | Scott | Deep Atmosphere Microwave Radiometer for Ice-Giant Exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | high temperature visible phodiode sensor | 2019 | Ohio Aerospace Institute | Balcerski | Jeffrey | Venus In-Situ Surface Imager | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Elastic wave analyzer | 2019 | JPL | Bar-Cohen | Yoseph | Elastic wave analyzer for icy sub-surfaces (EWAIS) in the solar system | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Themal sensor | 2019 | JPL | Rais-Zadeh | Mina | Radiation Hard and High Temperature Tolerant Thermal Imagers (HOT IR) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mid-IR sensor | 2019 | GSFC | Yu | Anthony | Photonic Integrated Circuit TUned for Reconnaissance and Exploration (PICTURE) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Organic extractor system | 2019 | JPL | Zhong | Fang | In-Situ Organic Extraction, Separation and Detection using Supercritical CO2 and Superheated Water | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mass spectrometer | 2019 | Duke University | Amsden | Jason | A high-resolution, large mass range cycloidal sector coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer for planetary exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Raman spectrometer | 2019 | U. South Carolina | Angel | Stanley | Compact, Robust Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Life detection sensor | 2019 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Carr | Christopher | Electronic Life-detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Neutron spectrometer | 2019 | University of Maryland, College Park | Clark | Charles | DOWSER: Detecting Objects' Water from Spatial Epithermal-neutron Response | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | far-UV spectrometer | 2019 | Planetary Science Institute | Hendrix | Amanda | A Far-UV Micromirror Integral Field Spectrograph for Planetary Science | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Laser vibrometer | 2018 | Colorado School of Mines | Sava | Paul | Seismic Orbital Laser VibrometEr (SOLVE) | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mid-IR sensor | 2018 | NASA GSFC | Sun | Xiaoli | Linear Mode Photon Counting HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Multi-beam Laser Altimeters | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Tunable laser spectrometer | 2018 | JPL | Webster | Chris | Subtraction Imaging as a Game-Changer for Planetary Tunable Laser Spectrometer Performance | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Seisometer | 2018 | JPL | Yee | Karl | Universal MEMS Seismometer | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Net Flux Radiometer | 2018 | NASA GSFC | Aslam | Shahid | Advanced Net Flux Radiometer Focal Plane Assembly for Ice Giants | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Dual band millimeter sensor | 2018 | JPL | Drouin | Brian | Two Spectrometers on a Chip | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Laser comb spectrometer | 2018 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bagheri | Mahmood | Electrically pumped mid-IR optical frequency combs for dual frequency spectroscopy | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Millimeter/submillimeter hetrodyne sensor | 2018 | University of Maryland | Drew | Howard | A millimeter/submillimeter heterodyne sensor for spectroscopy and imaging of cold planetary objects in the outer solar system | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Far-UV silicon imager | 2018 | Southwest Research Institute | Molyneux | Phliippa | Development of far-UV-sensitive silicon imaging arrays for compact UV instrumentation | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Electrostatic collection system | 2018 | University of Maryland | Hartzell | Christine | In-Situ Cohesion Quantification and Sample Collection Through Electrostatic Lofting | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Tomography system | 2018 | SETI Institute | Obbard | Rachel | Mars In Situ Tomography System (MISTS) Development for Characterizing the Stratigraphy of Polar Layered Deposits | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Mass spectrometer | 2018 | University of Maryland | Arevalo | Ricardo | Miniaturized Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS) for Trace Element Analysis | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Drilling system | 2018 | Honeybee | Zacny | Kris | SLUSH: Thermo-Mechanical Deep Drilling System for Ocean Worlds and Mars | |
| PICASSO | Instrument | Saltation sensor | 2018 | Cornell University | Banfield | Donald | Saltation Sensor | |
| DALI | Instrument | handheld- lunar composition | 2022 | University of Maryland | Achilles | Cherie | Quantitative Elemental Reconnaissance Instrument | |
| DALI | Instrument | UV-Vis Spectrograph | 2022 | Southwest Research | Retherford | Kurt | Lunar Raman Deep-Ultraviolet Visible Spectrograph (LR-DUV-VIS) | |
| DALI | Instrument | LIDAR | 2022 | University of Hawaii | Lucey | Paul | SpIRRL: Spectroscopic Infrared Reflectance LIDAR | |
| DALI | Instrument | camera | 2022 | JHU Applied Physics | Blewett | David | Mahina Color Camera: Snapshot Multispectral Imaging for Lunar Science | |
| DALI | Instrument | radar/ subsurface probe | 2022 | University of Arizona | Carter | Lynn | SESAR-LITE: Probing the Lunar Subsurface | |
| DALI | Instrument | cosmic ray sounder | 2021 | U. of Hawaii Manoa | Gorham | Peter | Flight Receivers for Orbital Remote Sensing of Buried Lunar Ice Deposits via CoRaLS: The Cosmic Ray Lunar Sounder | |
| DALI | Instrument | spectrometer | 2021 | NASA/JPL | Christensen | Lance | Water Isotope Tunable Laser Spectrometer | |
| DALI | Instrument | Mass Spectrometer | 2021 | U. of Maryland | McDonough | William | PLASMA: Pulsed Laser Ablation Sampling and Mass Analysis | |
| DALI | Instrument | camera | 2021 | Ball Aerospace | Schindhelm | Rebecca | Revelio: An Autonomous High Dynamic Range Camera for Polar Science and Exploration | |
| DALI | Instrument | monitor lunar exosphere | 2021 | U. of Colorado Boulder | Horanyi | Mihaly | Lunar Meteoroid Monitor (LMM) | |
| DALI | Instrument | surface study | 2020 | SwRI | Anderson | F. Scott | Preparing CDEX for flight to provide lunar elemental analysis and Rb-Sr dating | |
| DALI | Instrument | Radiometer | 2020 | JHU/APL | Greenhagen | Benjamin | Multispectral Imaging Compact Radiometer (MICR) | |
| DALI | Instrument | UV spectrometer | 2020 | NASA/JPL | Hosseini | Seyedeh Sona | Ultra-compact, high-resolution Lunar UV spectrometer | |
| DALI | Instrument | microimager | 2020 | JHU/APL | Nunez | Jorge | Advanced Multispectral Infrared Microimager (AMIM) For Lunar Surface Exploration | |
| DALI | Instrument | Mass Spectrometer | 2020 | SwRI | Patrick | Edward | Environmental Analysis of the Bounded Lunar Exosphere (ENABLE) | |
| DALI | Instrument | radiometer | 2019 | Planetary Science | Siegler | Matthew | Lunar Heat Flow Radiometer | |
| DALI | Instrument | Raman Spectrometer | 2019 | NASA/JPL | Lambert | James | Adapting the Compact Integrated Raman Spectrometer (CIRS) for Lunar Exploration | |
| DALI | Instrument | Laser spectrometer | 2019 | SwRI | Rafkin | Scot | LASVEGAS on the Moon: A Hypertunable IR laser Spectrometer for the Analysis of Volatiles | |
| DALI | Instrument | Mass Spectrometer | 2019 | NASA/JPL | Madzunkov | Stojan | Lunar CubeSat Mass Spectrometer with LETS Radiation Sensor | |
| DALI | Instrument | Seismometer | 2019 | NASA/GSFC | Hurford | Terry | Development of the SUBLIME seismometer for future Lunar missions | |
| DALI | Instrument | regolith study | 2018 | U of Maryland | Arevalo | Ricardo | CRATER: Characterization of Regolith And Trace Economic Resources | |
| DALI | Instrument | Seismometer | 2018 | U of Arizona | Bailey | Samuel | Seismometer for a Lunar Network (SLN) | |
| DALI | Instrument | environment monitoring | 2018 | U of Maryland | Benna | Mehdi | The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) | |
| DALI | Instrument | soil analysis | 2018 | NASA/ARC | Blake | David | XTRA: An ExTraterrestrial Regolith Analyzer for Lunar Soil History | |
| DALI | Instrument | laser experiment | 2018 | NASA/GSFC | Cohen | Barbara | Maturation of the Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE) | |
| DALI | Instrument | imaging spectrometer | 2018 | NASA/JPL | Fraeman | Abigail | An Ultra-Compact Imaging Spectrometer for the Lunar Surface | |
| DALI | Instrument | lunar volatiles | 2018 | U of Maryland | Livengood | Timothy | Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE) | |
| DALI | Instrument | surface study | 2018 | NASA/GSFC | Parsons | Ann | Maturation of the Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer for Surface and Sub-surface Lunar Studies | |
| DALI | Instrument | dust processes | 2018 | U of Colorado | Wang | Xu | Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (EDA) for Exploring Dust Transport Processes on the Lunar Surface | |
| DALI | Instrument | Seismometer | 2018 | NASA/JPL | Yu | Nan | Lunar Super Low-Frequency Atomic Seismometer | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Electronics | 2020 | Georgia Technology University | Cressler | John | Environmentally-Invariant Silicon-Germanium Electronics for On-Surface Ocean Worlds Exploration | |
| COLDTech | Platform | RF and Acoustic (Non-tether) Communication | 2020 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bar-Cohen | Yoseph | Maturation and demonstration of technology to enable through deep-ice communication (CryoComm) on Europa | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Software for Autonomous operations and fault management | 2020 | Lockheed Martin | Dixon | Eric | Causal And Reinforcement Learning (CARL) for Concepts for Ocean Worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) | |
| COLDTech | Platform | RF and Magnetoinductive (Non-tether) Communication | 2020 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Cheng | Michael | Hybrid Radio Frequency (RF) and Magneto-Inductive (MI) Transceiver for Europa Sub-Ice Communications | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Electronics | 2020 | Vanderbilt University | Holman | William | A Radiation-Hardened Analog-to-Digital Converter for Outer Planetary Missions | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Communication Tether with Drill | 2020 | Honeybee | Zacny | Kris | Tether based communication system for the SLUSH (Search for Life Using Submersible Heated drill) Europa probe | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Software for Autonomous Terrain Sampling | 2020 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Ornik | Melkior | DRILLAWAY: aDaptive, ResIlient Learning-enabLed oceAn World AutonomY | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Optical Communication Tether and RF Relay Module | 2020 | Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab | Craft | Kathleen | Technology for Sending Signals Through the Ice (STI Tech) on Ocean Worlds | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Software for Autonomous operations and onboard planning | 2020 | University of Colorado | McMahon | Jay | Expert-Informed Autonomous Science Planning for In-situ Observations and Discoveries | |
| COLDTech | Platform | Software for Autonomous Operations of Sampling Equipment | 2020 | California Institute of Technology | Burdick | Joel | Robust, Explainable Autonomy for Scientific Icy Moon Operations | |
| COLDTech | Platform | RF (Non-tether) Communication | 2020 | Stone Aerospace, Inc. | Stone | William | PARTI Pucks |