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Environment

Xylem Lands NASA Instrument Contract

by Ann M. Thayer
January 21, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 3

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Credit: Dmitri Gerondidakis/NASA
A prototype of the system that houses RESOLVE.
This is a NASA instrument RESOLVE.
Credit: Dmitri Gerondidakis/NASA
A prototype of the system that houses RESOLVE.

Xylem Analytics, the instrumentation business of water technology firm Xylem, has been awarded a $300,000 contract by NASA. Under the contract Xylem will build a miniaturized mass spectrometer for detecting water and other compounds on the moon. The instrument will be part of a lunar-rover-based system that NASA is developing, known as RESOLVE—Regolith & Environment Science and Oxygen & Lunar Volatile Extraction.

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