DALI
Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI)
Typical Solicitation Timeline:
- ROSES Solicitation Release – February
- Step 1 Proposals Submitted – April
- Step 2 Proposals Submitted – June
- Panel Reviews – October
Solicitation Overview:
- DALI supports the development of spacecraft-based instruments for use on future lunar missions including commercial ventures (i.e. CLPS).
- The DALI program goal is to develop lunar science instruments to the point where they may be proposed to future flight opportunity announcements (i.e. PRISM) without additional technology development.
- DALI generally supports TRL maturation from TRL 4 to TRL 6.
- DALI seeks to mature lunar science instruments that support NASA’s broader lunar exploration goals.
- Goals applicable to human exploration, in situ resource utilization, and lunar science.
- All instrument types, including rover-based and orbital, are considered with specific interest in small, stationary lander instruments.
| Project Info | Instrument/Platform | Instrument/Technology Type | Activity_1st_Yr | PI_Institution | PI_LName | PI_FName | Activity_Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |