Psionic has been selected by NASA as one of 37 U.S. companies to collaborate under the 2025 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity to advance technologies for future lunar exploration and human missions to Mars.
The initiative establishes public-private partnerships through unfunded Space Act Agreements, providing selected companies with access to NASA facilities, hardware, software, and technical expertise. A total of 41 proposals were chosen under this announcement to accelerate technology development and strengthen commercial space capabilities in the United States.
For Psionic, the selection marks a milestone in the development of resilient navigation technologies designed for challenging environments where GPS signals are unavailable.
The company’s Navigation Doppler Lidar technology delivers precise velocity and range measurements. The velocity data enables precision navigation in GPS-denied environments, while the range measurements improve navigation accuracy when integrated into terrain contour matching algorithms.
Under the collaboration, Psionic will work with NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to demonstrate its PSNDL-L space NDL-lander sensor. The validation process will include high-altitude, high-speed flight tests designed to verify the sensor’s capabilities for future lunar and Mars missions.
The collaboration supports Psionic’s continued work on navigation technologies for autonomous space exploration, with the company’s lidar-based sensing capabilities being evaluated for missions that require accurate positioning and navigation beyond GPS-enabled environments.
