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This is a contract award to the University of Colorado (UC) to extend the definition phase (Phase B) of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) instrument. The goal is to produce a conceptual design cost review for this principal investigator-led experiment to make long-term solar observations. The University of Colorado will be responsible for mission operations, algorithm development, and science data products. This $153,052,357 definitive...

This is a $588,707 research grant awarded by NASA to Trustees of Boston University (BU) to refine and validate the Vegetation Earth System Data Record (VESDR) product derived from the DSCOVR EPIC sensor. The VESDR provides key vegetation parameters including Leaf Area Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation. The primary objectives are to improve the VESDR retrieval technique, achieve "Stage-1 Validation" status through...

This is a $478,846 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to support two main objectives: 1) continuing ground-based infrared observations of Venus to complement data from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft, and 2) analyzing past and upcoming observations to determine cloud velocities, cloud properties, and trace gas abundances on Venus. The grant will fund observational time at telescopes like the Infrared Telescope...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Urban Sky Theory Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer, to augment the FIREX-AQ program with a rapid-response, low-cost, broad area dual visible-longwave infrared (Vis-LWIR) remote sensing system. The $114,888 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded on August 31, 2020, with a completion date of March 1, 2021. Urban Sky Theory Inc. has prior experience...

This is a $346,592 grant award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division, to improve the calibration of the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The goal is to validate the absolute and relative radiometric calibration of EPIC's spectral channels by comparing its measurements to data from several other Earth and...

The University of New Hampshire, as prime contractor, was awarded a $400,000 firm fixed price contract by NASA Goddard Space Center to conduct a Phase A concept study for the AETHER instrument. The study will support development of an instrument for the International Space Station to observe ionospheric plasmas and neutral particles from geomagnetic storms. Major subcontractors include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Colorado, and University of Texas at Dallas to provide...

This is a $749,598 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) to support the "UVIS ETELMAN OBSERVATORY IN THE ERA OF TIME DOMAIN AND MULTIMESSENGER ASTRONOMY PREPARING FOR A NEW ERA OF SCIENCE PRODUCTIVITY" project. The award has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. UVI is a minority-serving institution and land grant university located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This NASA contract...

This federal contract award, valued at $3,265,567.00, was issued by NASA's Goddard Space Center to the University of Illinois for the development of the Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) instrument. GLIDE is intended to reveal the global dynamics of the Earth's exosphere using Lyman-alpha imagers on a spacecraft. The prime contractor, the University of Illinois, has subcontracted work to Computational Physics, Inc., Trustees of Boston University, and the University of...

This is a definitive, firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to Blue Canyon Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, for the development and delivery of two 12U CubeSats carrying a dual-frequency polarimetric radiometer instrument. The total ceiling value of the contract is $11,172,415.00, with a completion date of January 30, 2028. The contract was not set aside for any specific business type. This contract is part of NASA's Earth Venture...

This is a five-year $5,799,201.94 cooperative agreement between NASA and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to continue the Visiting Scientist Programs (VSP) office's successful efforts in training and educating a new generation of heliophysics scientists and supporting interactions within the heliophysics community. Key aspects of the agreement include: Organizing, hosting, and administering the annual Heliophysics Summer Schools to foster learning and development of...