This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, is to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The contract, valued at $40,000, will have UC Berkeley participate as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K0488, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $381,000.00 grant is for a research project titled "ANALYSIS OF SOLAR WIND CHLORINE, COBALT AND IRIDIUM IN GENESIS SAPPHIRE SAMPLES", with a planned completion date of January 14, 2025. The contract was not set aside for...
This federal contract award, valued at $85,642.96, was granted by the Shared Services Center of NASA to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is for a research grant to investigate the hard X-rays produced by accreting white dwarfs in magnetic cataclysmic variables. This research aims to advance the understanding of shock-heating in accretion columns. The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2023...
This is a $100,474.03 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant is part of NASA's Astrophysical Research Program and will directly benefit the agency's Exoplanet Exploration Program, which focuses on discovering and characterizing exoplanets. The contract has no set-aside designation and is for the purpose of conducting research. UC...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1317, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. The $550,504.00 contract is a grant for research to analyze the first all-sky images of electron precipitation events measured with the Compact Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (COSI). The research aims to understand how electron precipitation can significantly drain the...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0484, was granted to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $299,992.00 grant is for research related to the Exobiology Program, which focuses on the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The award does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, a public...
This $134,887.70 grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The award is for research supporting NASA's Earth Science Division Goal 3 to detect and predict changes in Earth's ecological and chemical cycles, including land cover, biodiversity, and the global carbon cycle. The award has no set-aside designation and runs through August 31, 2023. The State...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K0530, was granted by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $602,585.32 grant is for a research project titled "Massive Stars Lie at the Center of the Web of Physical Processes that Has Shaped the Universe as We Know It" and is set to be completed by March 15, 2024. The award is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC19K1389, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $1,234,274.93 grant is for a "REFLIGHT OF COSI" which will allow the university to obtain more science results on transient events, combine new data with 2016 data to improve statistics for positron and nucleosynthesis studies, and provide training...
This is a $755,595.00 grant contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for a research project titled "A Pathway to Planet Properties". The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2026. UC Berkeley, as the prime contractor, will leverage its expertise in areas such as space exploration, quantum computing, and advanced simulation to deliver the required...