SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration STTR Phase I: T6
SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC — STTR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $124,999
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- T6
- Solicitation
- STTR_20_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2020-08-11 → 2021-09-30
Description
Southwest Sciences proposes to develop a real time, compact laser-based ethylene gas analyzer with a detection sensitivity of 25 parts-per-billion by volume or better.nbsp; Ethylene monitoring and control is important to plant growth and health in closed growth chambers such as would be needed for future long-term, manned missions. The analyzer will be fully autonomous and uses newly available, low power diode lasers that operate in the mid-infrared spectral region. The innovation is a novel cavity enhanced spectroscopy method invented at Southwest Sciences that will make the system smaller and more sensitive than conventional tunable diode laser spectroscopy.