SBIR/STTR Research Award
Focused LIBS for Elements in Water Identification (FLEW.ID)
Award amount
$898,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Impossible Sensing LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-06-12
- Contract end date
- 2025-06-11
- UEI
- EMH4NF61CHY5
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_22_P2
- Topic code
- S15
Research abstract
Our innovation, Focused LIBS for Elements in Water IDentification (FLEW.ID), is a compact, cost-effective, and sensitive instrument for monitoring the elemental composition of aqueous solutions in plant growth systems on-board the International Space Station (ISS). FLEW.ID utilizes a miniaturized, low-pulse energy laser for performing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) measurements that, when coupled with a compact optical assembly and spectrometer system, enables reductions in instrument size, weight, and power (SWaP) conducive to accommodation on the ISS for direct integration with currently-operating and/or future proposed plant growth systems. The enhanced benefit of FLEW.ID is that it is application agnostic, and therefore can be used for analyzing other fluid systems on the ISS such as in the closed-loop Water Recovery Systemnbsp;or on future habitats on planetary surfaces.
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.
- Advancing SERS: Next-Level Organic Detection for Life Missions
- Focused LIBS for Elements in Water IDentification (FLEW.ID)
- Spatial Excitation-Emission Matrix Spectroscopy (SEEMS) Organic Matter Bioimager
- PERISCOPE - Probe for Exploring Regolith and Ice by Subsurface Classification of Organics, PAHs, and Elements
- GRAAL: Geospatial Rastering And Atmospheric Lidar
Awards with the same topic code
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- Self-Contained Dual-Mode Sample Preparation Module Using Non-Hazardous Reagents
- Sensors for Precision Agriculture and Crop Management Decisions
- Plant Health Monitoring with Multimode Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
- High-sensitivity Quantum Spectrometer for Autonomous Biological Analysis
- Portable Major and Trace Constituent Gas Analyzer for Habitable Environments
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2024). Reported award amounts total $6,087,257. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy