DALI
Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation
DALI Projects
Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI)
Typical Solicitation Timeline:
- ROSES Solicitation Release
- Step 1 Proposals Submitted
- Step 2 Proposals Submitted
Solicitation Overview:
- DALI supports the development of 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.
- For examples of past DALI program funded instruments applicability to science goals and instrument type, see link: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/pesto-old/instrument-technologies-current/development-and-advancement-of-lunar-instrumentation-dali/
All DALI Projects are listed on TechPort through the link below.
https://techport.nasa.gov/searches/1583
DALI Projects
Projects | PI | PI | Activity Title | Instrument/Platform | Taxonomy | Orbital/ | Destination | PI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18-DALI18_2-0006 | Blake | David | XTRA: An ExTraterrestrial Regolith Analyzer for Lunar Soil History | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Ames Research Center |
18-DALI18_2-0012 | Bailey | Samuel | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Arizona | |
18-DALI18_2-0017 | Cohen | Barbara | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
18-DALI18_2-0025 | Wang | Xu | Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (EDA) for Exploring Dust Transport Processes on the Lunar Surface | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Colorado |
18-DALI18_2-0028 | Parsons | Ann | Maturation of the Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer for Surface and Sub-surface Lunar Studies | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
18-DALI18_2-0029 | Yu | Nan | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
18-DALI18_2-0039 | Livengood | Timothy | Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE) | Instrument | Mass | All | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland |
18-DALI18_2-0052 | Benna | Mehdi | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
18-DALI18_2-0055 | Arevalo | Ricardo | CRATER: Characterization of Regolith And Trace Economic Resources | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland |
18-DALI18_2-0058 | Fraeman | Abigail | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
19-DALI19-0035 | Rafkin | Scot | LASVEGAS on the Moon: A Hypertunable IR laser Spectrometer for the Analysis of Volatiles | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
19-DALI19-0041 | Siegler | Matthew | Instrument | High | All | Earth’s Moon | Planetary Science Institute | |
19-DALI19-0044 | Hurford | Terry | Development of the SUBLIME seismometer for future Lunar missions | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
19-DALI19-0048 | Madzunkov | Stojan | Instrument | Mass | Orbital/Flyby | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
19-DALI19-0051 | Lambert | James | Adapting the Compact Integrated Raman Spectrometer (CIRS) for Lunar Exploration | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
20-DALI20-0009 | Hosseini | Seyedeh Sona | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
20-DALI20-0012 | Greenhagen | Benjamin | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab | |
20-DALI20-0032 | Nunez | Jorge | Advanced Multispectral Infrared Microimager (AMIM) For Lunar Surface Exploration | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab |
20-DALI20-0039 | Anderson | F. Scott | Preparing CDEX for flight to provide lunar elemental analysis and Rb-Sr dating | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
20-DALI20-0043 | Patrick | Edward | Environmental Analysis of the Bounded Lunar Exosphere (ENABLE) | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
21-DALI21-0006 | Horanyi | Mihaly | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Colorado Boulder | |
21-DALI21-0008 | Schindhelm | Rebecca | Revelio: An Autonomous High Dynamic Range Camera for Polar Science and Exploration | Instrument | Imager | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Ball Aerospace |
21-DALI21-0017 | McDonough | William | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
21-DALI21-0022 | Christensen | Lance | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
21-DALI21-0024 | Gorham | Peter | Instrument | High | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Hawaii Manoa | |
22-DALI22-0007 | Carter | Lynn | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Arizona | |
22-DALI22-0008 | Blewett | David | Mahina Color Camera: Snapshot Multispectral Imaging for Lunar Science | Instrument | Imager | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab |
22-DALI22-0018 | Lucey | Paul | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Hawaii | |
22-DALI22-0038 | Achilles | Cherie | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
22-DALI22-0042 | Retherford | Kurt | Lunar Raman Deep-Ultraviolet Visible Spectrograph (LR-DUV-VIS) | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research |
23-DALI23_2-0004 | George | Stuart | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Johnson Space Center | |
23-DALI23_2-0016 | Stillman | David | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute | |
23-DALI23_2-0021 | Cao | Hao | A miniaturized, low-power magnetometer system for lunar surface observatories | Instrument | Magnetometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | UCLA |
23-DALI23_2-0036 | Kriesel | Jason | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc | |
23-DALI23_2-0040 | Gillis- Davis | Jeffrey | Maturation of a Compact LIBS Spectrometer for Lunar Investigations | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Washington University |
24-DALI24_2-0012 | Erwan | Mazarico | Swath-Mapping Lidar for Lunar Science and Exploration | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
24-DALI24_2-0018 | Evan | Eshelman | Lunar Weather Array | Instrument | LIDAR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Honeybee Robotics |
24-DALI24_2-0022 | Ryan | McCormick | Lunar Sample Manipulation and Containment for Sample Return | Instrument | Sampler/Extractor/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
24-DALI24_2-0001 | M. Nurul | Abedin | In-situ and Remote Characterization of Lunar Surface Using Standoff micro-Raman (SUCR) Sensor | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Langley Research Center |
24-DALI24_2-0017 | James | Lambert | A Lunar Spectroscopic Tool for Raman Analysis (LUSTRA) | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |