Exoplanet technology research is funded through the Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) component of NASA ROSES - information can be found on the NASA NSPIRES website. Prior to the 2018 SAT solicitation, a sub-component of SAT was called Technology Development for Exoplanet Missions (TDEM). Beginning with the 2018 solicitation, there is a single SAT program but exoplanet technology development SAT awards are managed by the ExEP as before. Awards from solicitations from 2009 through 2017 are listed below, including links to the abstracts of the original proposals, to Milestone Whitepapers, and Final Reports, where available.

Please refer here for information on ExEP Resources Available to Proposers to SAT, including access to the High Contrast Imaging Testbed laboratory for coronagraph demonstrations.

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Abstract | Whitepaper

Year

PI

Institution

Proposal Title

CORONAGRAPH STARLIGHT SUPPRESSION DEMONSTRATIONS

2009

John Trauger

JPL/Caltech

2009

Olivier Guyon

Univ. of Arizona

2009

Mark Clampin

NASA GSFC

2010

Eugene Serabyn

JPL/Caltech

2010

Olivier Guyon

Univ. of Arizona

2010

Rick Lyon

NASA GSFC

2010

Jagmit Sandhu

JPL/Caltech

2010 **

Glenn Schneider

Univ. of Arizona

2013

Brian Hicks

NASA GSFC

2014

Eugene Serabyn

JPL/Caltech

2016

John Trauger

JPL

2016

Ruslan Belikov

NASA ARC

2016

Ruslan Belikov*

NASA ARC

2017

Remi Soummer

STScI

2017

Eugene Serabyn

JPL

2018

Ruslan Belikov*

NASA ARC

2018

Dimitri Mawet

California Institute of Technology

2021

Kent Wallace

JPL

2022

AJ Riggs

JPL/Caltech

2023

Eugene Serabyn

JPL/Caltech

2023

Kyle Van Gorkom

University of Arizona

2023

Laurent Pueyo

Space Telescope Science Institute

STARSHADE TECHNOLOGY

2009

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

2010

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

2012

Suzanne Casement

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

2012

Tiffany Glassman

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

2012

Jeremy
Kasdin ***

Princeton University

2013

Jeremy
Kasdin ***

Princeton University

2013

Webster Cash

University Of Colorado, Boulder

2014

Mark
Thomson ***

NASA JPL

2022

Manan Arya

Stanford University

WAVEFRONT SENSING & CONTROL OF SCATTERED STARLIGHT

2009

Martin Noecker

Ball Aerospace

2010

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

2010

Paul Bierden

Boston Micromachines Inc.

2010

Michael Helmbrecht

Iris AO

2017

Olivier Guyon

University of Arizona

2021

Kerri Cahoy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022

Olivier Guyon

University of Arizona

2022

Jonathan Tesch

JPL/Caltech

2022

John Trauger

JPL/Caltech

2023

Timothy Cook

University Of Massachusetts, Lowell

CORONAGRAPH MODELING AND MODEL VALIDATION

2009

John Krist

JPL/Caltech

2010

Stuart Shaklan

JPL/Caltech

2015

Jim Breckinridge

University of Arizona

EXTREME PRECISION RADIAL VELOCITY

2018

Stephanie Leifer

JPL/Caltech

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

2009

Donald Figer

Rochester Inst. Tech.

2013

Eduardo Bendek

NASA ARC

2017

Bernard Rauscher*

NASA GSFC

2018

Johannes Staguhn

Johns Hopkins University / NASA GSFC

2022

Colleen Marrese-Reading

JPL/Caltech

2023

Felipe Guzman

University Of Arizona

2023

Johannes Staguhn

Johns Hopkins University


* Funded by directed work package from NASA HQ (not SAT)

** Funded by the NASA Explorer program (not SAT) with a Category 3 award from NASA HQ (contract NNX12AH39G)

*** Re-programmed to the Starshade Technology Activity (S5).


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