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This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AP92G, was granted to New Mexico State University (NMSU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to extend previous work related to the LCROSS lunar impact. The $252,979.70 grant will fund two efforts: 1) analyzing additional ground-based imaging data of the LCROSS plume to study particle properties, and 2) expanding ballistic modeling to more accurately determine the mass of regolith in the plume, which has implications for...

This is a $398,045.80 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona to study the formation and characteristics of ejecta blankets around fresh lunar craters. The research will use data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to map and analyze the complex surface features of these ejecta deposits, including the presence of impact melt. The goal is to better understand the excavation and emplacement processes of crater ejecta and how it...

This is a $136,568.04 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Arizona State University (ASU) to study the current impact cratering rate on the Moon. The project aims to compare recent lunar surface images from various spacecraft, including Apollo metric photographs, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and the SELENE Terrain Camera, to identify and analyze newly formed impact craters in the 20-100 meter diameter range. This data will enable more robust estimates of the current...

This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20M0061, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin, a research university and component of the University of Texas System. The contract, valued at $520,667.00, is a cooperative agreement to support the LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission, which impacted the permanently shadowed region of the Cabeus Crater near the lunar south pole in 2009. The objective...

This is a $66,113 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to execute a balanced science program. The grant supports Columbia's participation as a key partner and enabler in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The grant also aims to advance discovery in emerging fields by identifying and exploiting cross-disciplinary...

This is a $507,151.55 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, to conduct research on the lunar water cycle. The research aims to identify the soil properties that favor the formation and retention of hydroxyl (OH) and water (HOH) on the lunar surface, as observed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument. The project will use data from various lunar missions, including Clementine, Lunar Reconnaissance...

This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by a U.S. government agency to CSRA LLC, a for-profit organization, to provide Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) science team support. The contract has a ceiling value of $31,000.00 and a period of performance ending on September 30, 2005. CSRA LLC is a subsidiary of the larger Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which has a history of subcontracting work for federal agencies in areas such as...

This is a $280,715.40 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a nonprofit research organization. The grant is for a research project to analyze lunar boulder populations around craters of varying sizes and ages using high-resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). The goal is to understand how the distribution of boulders on the lunar surface changes over time as craters...

This is a $100,565.70 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on February 8, 2018. The grant will fund a research project focused on modeling the moon-forming impact and investigating the extent of contamination of the moon by the Earth's crust, as well as the amount of water incorporated into the protolunar disk or lost during the impact. The project will utilize the SPH/tree-code...

This is a $99,019.00 grant award from NASA to Applied Coherent Technology Corporation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, to reprocess data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. The work will improve the spatial accuracy and photometric calibration of the M3 hyperspectral data using the high-resolution lunar terrain model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The resulting improved Level 1B and Level 3 data products will enhance the...