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.

Download templates: Whitepaper | Final Report

Download milestone process: Milestone Process

Year

PI

Institution

Proposal Title

CORONAGRAPH STARLIGHT SUPPRESSION DEMONSTRATIONS

2009

John Trauger

JPL/Caltech

Advanced Hybrid Lyot Coronagraph Technology for Exoplanet Missions
Abstract | Whitepaper | [[LINK||FILE:files/exep/Lyot_TDEM_Report_121215_signed.pdf||Final Report||]]

2009

Olivier Guyon

Univ. of Arizona

Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraphy Development and Laboratory Validation
Abstract | Whitepaper #1 | Final Report #1 | Whitepaper #2 | [[LINK||FILE:files/exep/PIAAmilestone2_final120821.pdf||Final Report #2||]]

2009

Mark Clampin

NASA GSFC

Visible Nulling Coronagraph Technology Maturation: High Contrast Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets
Abstract | Final Report

2010

Eugene Serabyn

JPL/Caltech

Demonstrations of Deep Starlight Rejection with a Vortex Coronagraph
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010

Olivier Guyon

Univ. of Arizona

Advances in Pupil Remapping (PIAA) coronagraphy: improving Bandwidth, Throughput and Inner Working Angle
Abstract | Final Report #3

2010

Rick Lyon

NASA GSFC

Compact Achromatic Visible Nulling Coronagraph Technology Maturation
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010

Jagmit Sandhu

JPL/Caltech

Visible Nulling Coronagraph (VNC) Technology Demonstration Program
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010 **

Glenn Schneider

Univ. of Arizona

EXCEDE PIAA Coronagraph Contrast Demonstration
[[LINK||FILE:files/exep/EXCEDE_Milestone_1_01DEC2012_GS09.pdf||Whitepaper #1||]] | Final Report #1 | Whitepaper #2 | Final Report #2

2013

Brian Hicks

NASA GSFC

Nulling of an Actively-Controlled Segmented Aperture Telescope
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2014

Eugene Serabyn

JPL/Caltech

Broadband Light Rejection with the Optical Vortex Coronagraph
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2016

John Trauger

JPL

Super Lyot ExoEarth Coronagraph
Abstract | Whitepaper

2016

Ruslan Belikov

NASA ARC

Laboratory Demonstration of High Contrast Using PIAACMC on a Segmented Aperture
Abstract | Whitepaper

2016

Ruslan Belikov*

NASA ARC

Development of a Method for Exoplanet Imaging in Multi-Star Systems
Abstract | Whitepaper

2017

Remi Soummer

STScI

First System-level Demonstration of High-Contrast for Future Segmented Space Telescopes
Abstract | Whitepaper

2017

Eugene Serabyn

JPL

Vortex Coronagraph High Contrast Demonstrations
Abstract | Whitepaper

2018

Ruslan Belikov*

NASA ARC

Laboratory Demonstration of Multi-Star Wavefront Control in Vacuum
Abstract | Whitepaper

2018

Dimitri Mawet

California Institute of Technology

Optimal Spectrograph and Wavefront Control Architectures for High-contrast Exoplanet Characterization
Abstract | Whitepaper

2021

Kent Wallace

JPL

Dual-purpose coronagraph masks for enabling high-contrast imaging with an IR/O/UV flagship mission
Abstract | Whitepaper

2022

AJ Riggs

JPL/Caltech

Laboratory Demonstrations of High Contrast with Black Silicon Masks
Abstract

STARSHADE TECHNOLOGY

2009

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

Starshades for Exoplanet Imaging and Characterization: Key Technology Development
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

Verifying Deployment Tolerances of an External Occulter for Starlight Suppression
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2012

Suzanne Casement

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Starshade Stray Light Mitigation through Edge Scatter Modeling and Sharp-Edge Materials Development
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2012

Tiffany Glassman

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Demonstration of Starshade Starlight-Suppression Performance in the Field
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2012

Jeremy
Kasdin ***

Princeton University

Optical and Mechanical Verification of an External Occulter for Starlight Suppression
Abstract | Whitepaper #1 | Re-programmed to the Starshade Technology Activity (S5)

2013

Jeremy
Kasdin ***

Princeton University

Formation Flying for External Occulters
Abstract | Final Report

2013

Webster Cash

University Of Colorado, Boulder

Development of Formation Flying Sensors
Abstract | Whitepaper

2014

Mark
Thomson ***

NASA JPL

Optical Shield for the Starshade Inner Disc Subsystem
Abstract | Re-programmed to the Starshade Technology Activity (S5)

WAVEFRONT SENSING & CONTROL OF SCATTERED STARLIGHT

2009

Martin Noecker

Ball Aerospace

Advanced Speckle Sensing for Internal Coronagraphs and Methods of Isolating Exoplanets from Speckles
Abstract | Whitepaper | [[LINK||FILE:files/exep/Speckle Sensing TDEM Final Report_v12.pdf||Final Report||]]

2010

Jeremy Kasdin

Princeton University

Integrated Coronagraph Design and Wavefront Control using Two Deformable Mirrors
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010

Paul Bierden

Boston Micromachines Inc.

MEMS Deformable Mirror Technology Development for Space-Based Exoplanet Detection
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2010

Michael Helmbrecht

Iris AO

Environmental Testing of MEMS Deformable Mirrors for Exoplanet Detection
Abstract | Whitepaper

2017

Olivier Guyon

University of Arizona

Linear Wavefront Control for High Contrast Imaging
Abstract | Milestone Whitepaper #1 | Milestone Report #1 | Milestone #2/#3 Whitepaper

2021

Kerri Cahoy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Adaptive High-order Wavefront Control Algorithms for High-contrast Imaging on the Decadal Survey Testbed
Abstract | Whitepaper

2022

Olivier Guyon

University of Arizona

Robust Deep Contrast Imaging with Self-Calibrating Coronagraph Systems
Abstract

2022

John Tesch

JPL/Caltech

Demonstration of Advanced Wavefront Control for Segmented Aperture Telescopes
Abstract

2022

John Trauger

JPL/Caltech

A Low-order Hardware Implementation for Sensing and Control in Exoplanet Imaging
Abstract

CORONAGRAPH MODELING AND MODEL VALIDATION

2009

John Krist

JPL/Caltech

Assessing the Performance Limits of Internal Coronagraphs Through End-to-End Modeling
Abstract | Whitepaper #1 | Final Report #1 | Whitepaper #2 | Final Report #2
Readme | Milestone Report #1 Simulation Code (1.1 GB) | Final Report Simulation Code (1.3 GB)

2010

Stuart Shaklan

JPL/Caltech

Coronagraph Starlight Suppression Model Validation: Coronagraph Milestone Report #3A
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2015

Jim Breckinridge

University of Arizona

Threshold raw retrieved contrast in coronagraphs is limited by internal polarization
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

EXTREME PRECISION RADIAL VELOCITY

2018

Stephanie Leifer

JPL/Caltech

A Novel Optical Etalon for Precision Radial Velocity Measurements
Abstract | Whitepaper

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

2009

Donald Figer

Rochester Inst. Tech.

A Photon-Counting Detector for Exoplanet Missions
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2013

Eduardo Bendek

NASA ARC

Enhanced direct Imaging exoplanet detection with astrometric mass determination
Abstract | Whitepaper | Final Report

2017

Bernard Rauscher*

NASA GSFC

Radiation Tolerant, Photon Counting, Visible and Near-IR Detectors for Space Coronagraphs and Starshades
Whitepaper

2018

Johannes Staguhn

Johns Hopkins University / NASA GSFC

Development of an Ultra-Stable Mid-Infrared Detector Array for Space-Based Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy
Abstract | Whitepaper

2022

Colleen Marrese-Reading

JPL/Caltech

Colloid Thruster Life Testing and Modeling
Abstract


* 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).