The agency’s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation, or DALI, program recently awarded 10 teams each about $4 million in funding to mature spacecraft based instruments for use in future lander missions including those offered by commercial ventures. These instruments, which are supposed to have reached a high level of technology readiness by the time funding ends in three years, will support scientific investigations, human exploration, lunar mining, and other in-situ lunar-resource activities.
Of the 10 awards, half went to teams involving Goddard experts, who are either serving as principal investigators or co-investigators. The five teams are Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE), Characterization of Regolith and Trace Economic Resources (CRATER), Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer (BECA), Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE), and Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS). Congratulations to these teams! Read more starting at page 5 of Cutting Edge.
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Enjoy some of the highlights from our 2018 trip around the Sun!
An observational technique first proposed more
than four decades ago to measure three important
processes necessary for the formation of the solar
wind — the source of disturbances in Earth’s upper
atmosphere — will be demonstrated for the first
time next year. Goddard heliophysicists Nat Gopalswamy and Jeff
Newmark plan to demonstrate BITSE — short for
the Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature
and Speed of Electrons in the corona — aboard
a high-altitude scientific balloon from Ft. Sumner,
New Mexico, next fall. BITSE will detect the density,
temperature, and speed of electrons in the corona. The story appears starting on page 7 in Goddard's "Cutting Edge" technology magazine.
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An observational technique first proposed more
than four decades ago to measure three important
processes necessary for the formation of the solar
wind — the source of disturbances in Earth’s upper
atmosphere — will be demonstrated for the first
time next year. Goddard heliophysicists Nat Gopalswamy and Jeff
Newmark plan to demonstrate BITSE — short for
the Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature
and Speed of Electrons in the corona — aboard
a high-altitude scientific balloon from Ft. Sumner,
New Mexico, next fall. BITSE will detect the density,
temperature, and speed of electrons in the corona. The story appears starting on page 7 in Goddard's 
