eXaminArt LLC
Company named EXAMINART, LLC on the NASA award snapshots and eXaminArt LLC on the selection abstract. The SBIR I contract was signed on 2025-09-08 and its performance period ended on 2026-03-27. The company page calls that award Phase I. A contract the award snapshot titles as Phase II was signed on 2026-10-27 and uses the same recipient name and UEI; its performance period starts on 2026-11-04. NASA's selection abstract says the proposed analyzer would monitor the mineral and elemental composition of a lunar regolith feedstock. The company website states that purpose. No lunar measurement or flown instrument is established.
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Resources and evidence
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| Resource | Evidence | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Regolith | Claimed | says it will |
Demonstrated
The abstract says the Phase I work would refine a concept and test layouts by modifying existing prototypes. No completed LuMA test result, lunar feedstock measurement, or flight instrument is in the captured records. The Phase II award text captured here is the title only.
Claimed or planned
The Phase I abstract and the company homepage describe LuMA as a monitor of lunar-regolith mineral and elemental composition for later resource or construction processing.
Facts
- Type
- Company
- Status
- UnknownStatus date not recorded. The USAspending award snapshots identify EXAMINART, LLC, UEI GDX3TLGTXQ43, and 17 E Toole Ave, Tucson, Arizona. The website describes eXaminart LLC as a privately owned business based in Arizona. Those sources do not include a state registry extract. Unknown does not mean inactive. The Phase II performance period had not started on the capture date.
- Roles
- None stated
- Targets
- Moon
- Also known as
- EXAMINART, LLC; eXaminart LLC
- Website
- examinart.com/
Dated events
Amounts are shown one at a time as each source states them. They are never added together.
- 2026-10-27
eXaminArt NASA SBIR Phase II contract for the Lunar Materials Analyzer
NASA definitive contract 80NSSC27C0051, signed 2026-10-27, is titled as a Phase II SBIR for the Lunar Materials Analyzer (LuMA). The performance period on the snapshot is 2026-11-04 through 2028-11-03. The snapshot records $1,265,027 obligated and the same amount for the base contract plus all options. It does not report a total outlay. Separate account-level obligation and outlay fields both show zero; their relationship to the award totals was not established. The obligation is not evidence of payment.
Sources (8) and evidence gaps
"description":"PHASE II SBIR - LUNAR MATERIALS ANALYZER (LUMA)"
"date_signed":"2026-10-27"
"start_date":"2026-11-04"
"total_obligation":1265027.0
"total_account_outlay":0
"total_outlay":null
"base_and_all_options":1265027.0
"total_account_obligation":0
- The award total and the separate account-level totals are different reported fields; their relationship was not established. A missing total outlay is not a reported zero payment. Technical fields in the snapshot: total_obligation=1265027.0; base_and_all_options=1265027.0; total_account_obligation=0; total_account_outlay=0; total_outlay=null.
- No Phase II technical abstract or report was captured, so the title is not evidence that a regolith analyzer has been built.
- 2025-09-08
eXaminArt NASA SBIR Phase I contract for the Lunar Materials Analyzer
NASA definitive contract 80NSSC25C0201, signed 2025-09-08, is titled as an SBIR I Lunar Materials Analyzer (LuMA). The performance period on the snapshot is 2025-09-29 through 2026-03-27. total_obligation and total_outlay on that snapshot are both 149491.0. The outlay field is the reported outlay on the award record, not a separate payment voucher. The NASA Phase I abstract describes a proposed regolith-composition monitor and concept work. It does not state this dollar figure.
Sources (7) and evidence gaps
"description":"SBIR I LUNAR MATERIALS ANALYZER (LUMA)"
"date_signed":"2025-09-08"
"end_date":"2026-03-27"
"total_obligation":149491.0
"total_outlay":149491.0
The Phase I research will focus on concept refinement and demonstration of feasibility
elemental composition of a lunar regolith feedstock
- The structured amount is left unset. Equal obligation and outlay fields on one snapshot are not a reviewed payment instrument.
- The federal description says SBIR I. The record name uses Phase I, which is the company homepage's wording for that award.
- The abstract's feasibility sentence is a plan for the Phase I effort, not a result.
Open evidence gaps
- No Arizona corporate-registry extract or explicit headquarters designation was captured. The award gives a Tucson recipient address; the company says it is based in Arizona, USA. Neither is stored as a confirmed headquarters.
- Role is empty. The abstract's primary function is monitoring composition of a lunar regolith feedstock for later ISRU or construction processes. A later sentence lists foreseen NASA markets, including missions intended to identify or quantify resources. That market line is not stored as prospecting. The abstract does not say this company extracts or processes regolith.
- The Phase II description captured here is the title only. It does not itself say regolith. The regolith sentence is the Phase I abstract and the company homepage.
- The company homepage also mentions ReXA, a different instrument; that statement does not establish LuMA Phase II technical results.
- The homepage news lines say Published: August 25 and do not give a year.
- The LuMA awards each report number_of_offers_received as 500. That field is not used to assess technical progress.
Sources
7 excerpts from 3 publicationsOne web address counts as one publication.
"recipient_name":"EXAMINART, LLC"
"recipient_uei":"GDX3TLGTXQ43"
"address_line1":"17 E TOOLE AVE"
Firm: eXaminArt LLC
elemental composition of a lunar regolith feedstock
mineral phase and elemental composition of lunar regolith
privately owned business based in Arizona, USA
Cite this record
SpaceMiningData, “eXaminArt LLC”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/examinart.html. Record checked 2026-11-02.