PICASSO
Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations (PICASSO)
Typical Solicitation Timeline:
- ROSES solicitation release – February
- No Due Date (NoDD) – Proposals can be submitted anytime
- Step-1 or NOI – Not required
- Panel Reviews – Throughout the year
Solicitation Overview:
- PICASSO program supports the development of spacecraft-based instrument hardware that would enhance or enable the scientific return from future planetary missions, e.g., SIMPLEx, Discovery, New Frontiers, Mars Exploration, and other planetary programs, including those flown on commercial spacecraft.
- New proof-of-concept instruments, systems or components, including sampling technologies, that significantly improve instrument measurement capabilities to address high priority science goals of planetary missions.
- PICASSO program objective is to develop and mature low size, weight and power instruments or instrument technologies with entry Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 1-3. TRL >4+ advancement is made through the Maturation of Instruments for Solar System Exploration (MatISSE) Program.
| Project Info | Instrument/Platform | Instrument/Technology Type | Activity_1st_Yr | PI_Institution | PI_LName | PI_FName | Activity_Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |