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Maturation of Instruments for Solar System Exploration (MatISSE) Program

MatISSETypical Solicitation Timeline (historically every EVEN year): ​

  • ROSES Solicitation Release
  • Step 1 Proposals Due​
  • Step 2 Proposals Due

Solicitation Overview:

  • MatISSE supports the development of spacecraft-based instruments for use on future planetary missions (all destinations except lunar)
  • ​The MatISSE program goal is to develop science instruments to the point where they may be proposed to future flight opportunity announcements (i.e. SIMPLEx, Discovery, New Frontiers, Mars Exploration, and other planetary programs, including those flown on commercial spacecraft) without additional technology development​
    • MatISSE supports TRL maturation from TRL 4 to TRL 6
  • MatISSE seeks to mature instruments that support Planetary Science Division’s strategic goals and objectives

All MatISSE Projects are listed on TechPort through the link below.

https://techport.nasa.gov/searches/1585

 MatISSE Projects

Projects

PI
Last
Name

PI
First
Name

Activity Title

Instrument/Platform

Taxonomy

Orbital/
Ground

Destination

PI
Institution

18-MATISE18_2-0003

Dasgupta

Purnendu

Ion/Liquid Chromatography for Exploration of Solar System (ILCESS)

Instrument

Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.)

All

All planetary bodies

University Of Texas, Arlington

18-MATISE18_2-0006

Chattopadhyay

Goutam

Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on a Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP)

Instrument

Sub-mm/THz/microwave

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Comets

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

18-MATISE18_2-0008

Paik

Ho Jung

Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer for Planetary Dynamics

Instrument

Gravitometer

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

All planetary bodies

University of Maryland

18-MATISE18_2-0020

Carter

Lynn

Space Exploration Synthetic Aperture Radar (SESAR): A Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Subsurface Imaging

Instrument

Radar/GPR

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Mars

University Of Arizona

18-MATISE18_2-0026

Cooper

Ken

WASSR: WAter-vapor Sounding Short-range Radar for mapping local atmospheric humidity over the Martian surface from an in situ platform

Instrument

Atmospheric probe

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Mars

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

18-MATISE18_2-0029

Sun

Xiaoli

Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation

Instrument

LIDAR

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Asteroids

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

18-MATISE18_2-0030

Rafkin

Scot

Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration

Instrument

Infrared

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Icy Moons

Southwest Research Institute

18-MATISE18_2-0034

Sobron

Pablo

In-situ Spectroscopic Europa Explorer (iSEE)

Instrument

Raman

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

All planetary bodies

SETI Institute

20-MATISSE202-0006

Banfield

Don

Mars Sonic Anemometer

Instrument

Atmospheric probe

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Mars

NASA Ames Research Center

20-MATISSE202-0024

Anderson

Carrie

V-WiSHeS: Venus Wideband Submillimeter Heterodyne Spectrometer

Instrument

Sub-mm/THz/microwave

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Venus

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

20-MATISSE202-0032

Kenyon

Matt

Next-generation cold object radiometer

Instrument

Thermal Infrared

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

20-MATISSE202-0045

Southard

Adrian

Advanced Resolution Organic Molecular Analyzer

Instrument

Ice/Regolith Sampler

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Icy Moons

Universities Space Research Association

20-MATISSE202-0069

Yu

Nan

Atomic drag-free accelerometer for non-gravitational forces in radiometric orbit determination and planetary science measurements

Instrument

Gravitometer

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

All with atmospheres

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

22-MATISE22_2-0014

Gasda

Patrick

OrganiCam: A Light-Weight Standoff Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imager and Raman Spectrometer

Instrument

Ultraviolet/ Visible

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Mars,Comets,Asteroids

Triad National Security, LLC

22-MATISE22_2-0018

DellaGiustina

Daniella

Seismometer to Investigate Interior Asteroid Structure

Instrument

Seismometer

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

All planetary bodies,Comets,Asteroids,Dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, KBOs)

University Of Arizona

22-MATISE22_2-0019

Quinn

Richard

Luminescence Imager for Exploration

Instrument

Microscopy

All

Icy Moons

NASA Ames Research Center

22-MATISE22_2-0023

Brinckerhoff

William

Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI)

Instrument

Mass Spectrometry

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

All airless planetary bodies,Comets,Asteroids,Dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, KBOs),Icy moons,Mars

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

22-MATISE22_2-0043

Banfield

Don

Saltation Sensor to TRL6

Instrument

Dust/Saltation probe

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Earth Moon,Titan,Mars

NASA Ames Research Center

24-MATISE24_2-0011

Atchison

Justin

OpGrav – Precise Small Body Mass Measurements during High-Speed Flybys

Instrument

Gravitometer

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Asteroids and small moons, Comets

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

24-MATISE24_2-0015

Seto

Emily

Sterilizing Heat Infrared Emitting LED Device (SHIELD)

Instrument

Planetary Protection

All

All airless planetary bodies

Honeybee Robotics LLC

24-MATISE24_2-0017

Wilhelm

Mary Beth

ExCALiBR: Extractor for Chemical Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers in Regolith

Instrument

Sampler/Extractor/ Separator

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Mars

NASA Ames Research Center

24-MATISE24_2-0027

Quinn

Richard

MICA: Microfluidic Icy-World Chemistry Analyzer

Instrument

Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.)

All

Icy Moons

NASA Ames Research Center

24-MATISE24_2-0036

Butterworth

Anna

Plume Ice Capture of Organics (PICO): Sample collection for in situ biosignature analyses.

Instrument

Sampler/Extractor/ Separator

Orbital/Flyby (from space)

Icy Moons

University of California, Berkeley

24-MATISE24_2-0043

Nemchick

Deacon

CMOS-Based Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for in-situ Sensing Applications

Instrument

Sub-mm/THz/microwave

Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground)

Comets, Icy moons

Jet Propulsion Laboratory