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High Sensitivity Spectrometer Awarded SBIR Phase II Funding from NASA

LMT was awarded a 2024 SBIR Phase II award from NASA, which will grow our suite of scientific instruments suited for the detection of both organics and inorganics. The award funds a new highly-sensitive, compact, and space-hardened fluorescence lifetime spectrometer that will ultimately be integrated with one of our deep-ultraviolet hyperspectral microscopes designed to detect and characterize microbial life on Ocean Worlds and Mars. Other applications it will be primed for here on Earth: hyperspectral fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and water monitoring.

Hyperspectral Microscope for Lunar Exploration: A Collaboration

LMT has developed a hyperspectral SWIR microscope that integrates into a drilling system built by Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin Company. OptiDrill seamlessly integrates cutting-edge optical instruments into a planetary drilling system to enable subsurface exploration. From lunar excursions to Mars missions, asteroid studies, and the exploration of icy worlds, this innovative approach allows for direct access to samples, enabling the collection of spatially-correlated data sets that were previously out of reach.

Automated Phosphate Monitor Awarded SBIR Phase II Funding from Department of Energy

LMT was selected for a 2023 SBIR Phase II award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build an automated phosphate monitor for difficult-to-monitor waters and high-sediment environments. We're answering the urgent call to help reduce excess nutrients that contribute to devastating algal blooms.

Deep UV-VIS Microscope Advances to NASA SBIR Phase III

In a vote of confidence for its space mission-readiness, LMT's Luminescence Imager for Exploration (LIfE) (shown above with a COTS camera) was selected to advance to an SBIR Phase III by NASA. LIfE is a deep-ultraviolet, ultraviolet, and visible epifluorescence microscope with brightfield capabilities. It boasts four excitation wavelength, and five independent emission bands in a compact package. Equipped with our own 50x/NA0.5 flat-field DUV-VIS objective it can resolve features down to 0.5µm or smaller. Proven at the subsystem level to withstand NASA GEVS level shock-and vibe-tests and ionizing radiation, the new microscope is now undergoing final environmental validation. LIfE is highly compact, less than 2U, making it ready even for CubeSat missions.