In-situ Wet Chemistry Laboratory

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In-situ Wet Chemistry Laboratory For Planetary
Exploration
Small Business Innovation Research
Starsys Research, Inc.
Boulder, CO

• INNOVATION
• Sample handling and fluid management system for
  in-situ wet chemistry on Mars, Europa or the Moon
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Developed mechanized platform for chemical
  analysis laboratory
• Soil samples are delivered through vapor
  interlock to test tubes for analysis under
  controlled conditions
• Testing completed for space qualification
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• Advanced versions expected to find market in
  future NASA planetary exploration missions

Wet Chemistry Laboratory Assembly for Planetary
Exploration Missions

• GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
• Starsys Research is supplying chemical analysis
  laboratories for several NASA sponsored programs
• Planetary instrument definition and development
  program, In Situ Planetary Chemical Analysis
• Mars instrument development program, Miniature
  Electrospray Ionization/ion-Mobility Spectrometer
  . .
• Astrobiology science and technology for exploring
  planets program, Chemistry and Imaging for
  Martian and Earth Soils

1998 Phase II NAS3-00102 NASA/JPL Contact
Michael Hecht Company Contact Kurt Lankford
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