
Compact and Rugged Mid-Infrared Multi-Gas Open Path SensorAward last edited on: 1/11/2023
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NASA : LaRCTotal Award Amount
$1,056,131Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
S11.05Principal Investigator
Chu TengCompany Information
Pendar Technologies LLC (AKA: Pendar Technologies~EOS Photonics)
Location: Single
Congr. District: 05
County: Middlesex
Congr. District: 05
County: Middlesex
Phase I
Contract Number: 80NSSC22PB148Start Date: 7/25/2022 Completed: 1/25/2023
Phase I year
2022Phase I Amount
$156,495Phase II
Contract Number: 80NSSC23CA137Start Date: 7/24/2023 Completed: 7/23/2025
Phase II year
2023Phase II Amount
$899,636Benefits:
The proposed sensor can be directly adopted for airborne missions such as on NASAs Airborne Science aircraft fleet, uncrewed aircraft systems and balloons to provide lower cost atmospheric gas measurements. The CO2 sensing capability can be utilized to augment the space-based measurements of CO2 dry air mole fraction under the OCO-2 project. The TEMPO project can also benefit from additional ozone and NO2 measurements. We believe our proposed sensing solution can be adopted for chemical threat detection, which would be of interest to the Department of Homeland Security. The broadband sensing capability is also applicable to selective volatile organic compound detection in the air, which is of interest to markets targeting air quality measurements.