BRIMROSE TECHNOLOGY CORP — National Aeronautics and Space Administration STTR Phase I: T14
BRIMROSE TECHNOLOGY CORP — STTR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase I STTR feasibility signal
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- Obligated amount $149,868. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $149,868
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- T14
- Solicitation
- STTR_23_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2023-07-22 → 2024-09-02
Description
For lunar (expandable to Martian) ISRU applications, a novel small SWaP LIBS suite, Fast Elemental and Molecular Interrogation Sensor (FEMIS), is designed to provide real-time identification of geochemical composition of lunar regolith using an innovative elemental + molecular LIBS technology. Having rapid and intense signal responses, obviating the need to physically touch the surface in order to collect a sample for analysis, and affected very little by the surface shape, roughness, and composition irregularity, this proposed FEMIS instrument will be an integrated system with a small SWaP UV/Visible/NIR + LWIR LIBS laser detector suite to collect the broadband (both UV-Visible-NIR and long-wave IR) signals from the operational surface. nbsp;nbsp;FEMIS offers real-time identifications of elemental abundances, REEs, and regolith mineral/chemical composition within seconds without the need of preparing the abrasive lunar/Martian regolith samples. Spectral data processing algorithms and prediction models will be developed for FEMIS to achieve fully automated real-time sorting/mapping of lunar/Martian regolith resource with minimum maintenance.nbsp;