About ESPRESSO

A NASA SSERVI NODE

We proposed Project ESPRESSO in response to the 2016 call for new NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute nodes. Project ESPRESSO represents a consortium of seven partner institutions home to 17 co-investigators, and is dedicated to enabling and enhancing future solar system exploration by developing the tools and techniques our explorers will need.

Principal Investigator: Alex H. Parker.

Themes

1. Enhancing Operational Safety: Develop capabilities required to remotely identify operational hazards and determine mitigation strategies.
2. Enhancing Target Selection, Sample Selection, and ISRU Potential: Develop capabilities required to safely assess targets, sites, and samples for their scientific value and resource potential.
3. Enhancing Target Characterization and Analysis Capabilities: Develop capabilities required to enable and enhance new scientific investigations of the properties, origins, and evolutionary processes of target bodies.

Lead institution

Southwest Research Institute

Boulder, Colorado.