 Leiden Measurement Technology (LMT) is partnering with Georgia Institute of Technology and Stone Aerospace for the NASA-funded ASTEP project, SIMPLE (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems). LMT is designing and manufacturing the Protein Fluorescence Spectrometer, a stand-off fluorescence spectrometer designed to detect bacterial life living at the sea-ice interface underneath the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
 A VALKYRIE-like cryobot penetrating through and extraterrestrial icy crust to a waiting ocean. Image courtesy Stone Aerospace.
Leiden Measurement Technology LLC is partnering with Stone Aerospace to build a scientific payload instrument for their VALKYRIE cryobot, a prototype drill designed to penetrate through the icy crust of Europa or Enceladus for scientific exploration. Wired Magazine covered the VALKYRIE drill. For this vehicle, LMT is designing and constructing the Sub-glacial Under-water Reconnaisance Flow-through Fluorescence Spectrometer (SURFFS).  Leiden Measurement Technology has won a Phase I SBIR award from NASA. LMT has been funded to develop a novel system capable of extracting, separating, trapping, concentrating, and transferring analytes for analysis in other instruments. LMT has completed this project and demonstrated that it is possible to extract and separate three key chemical classes using subcritical water coupled to solid phase extraction: polar organics, non-polar organics, and inorganic anions and cations from complex matrices that include Mars analog salt mixtures.
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