SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lunar Spectral Irradiance Monitor
Award amount
$749,995Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- RESONON, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-07-07
- Contract end date
- 2019-07-06
- UEI
- Z1S4HKGLTL65
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.03
Research abstract
The purpose of this effort is to develop an instrument to accurately calibrate (1% k=2) the lunar spectral reflectance (350 to 2,300 nm) at relatively low expense from a small satellite. Assuming the TSIS missions are successful and the solar irradiance is known, the lunar spectral reflectance can be used to provide known lunar irradiance, thereby providing a stable exo-atmospheric calibration source for earth-viewing instruments on low earth orbit satellites. The proposed instrument has been designed specifically for calibrating the lunar irradiance. It is compact, simple in concept, and the data product is nearly immune to long-term degradation because it collects solar and lunar signals using the same optics in the same way. During this effort a prototype instrument will be developed, tested, and evaluated. Design reviews will be conducted and a plan will be made for a next-generation instrument.
 
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High-resolution/high-precision PEM Quality Control
- Airborne High-Dynamic Range Anamorphic Hyperspectral Imager
- Airborne High-Dynamic Range Anamorphic Hyperspectral Imager
- ARCSTONE Improvements
- ARCSTONE Improvements
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Megapixel Longwave Infrared SLS FPAs for High Spatial Resolution Earth Observing Missions
- Novel Read-Out Integrated Circuit with Individual Pixel Programmability for Astronomy Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
- Microwave Photonic Imaging Radiometer
- Low-Power Radiation Tolerant 4GHz Bandwidth 16k Channel Spectrometer ASIC
- Correlation Radiometer ASIC
Research funding history
22 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2023). Reported award amounts total $9,471,682. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture