The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), has been awarded a $874,870.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study solar wind heating and acceleration through Alfven waves. The grant, contract number 80NSSC20K0185, has a period of performance ending on December 21, 2025. This award is not associated with any set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a leading...
This federal contract award is a $44,963.38 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The grant, titled "Solar Wind Influences on Planetary Ions in Mercury's High-Latitude Magnetosphere", has a completion date of September 9, 2024. The University of Michigan is a highly-regarded public research university...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $514,139.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, doing business as the University of Michigan. The grant, titled "INVESTIGATION OF THE SOLAR WIND HEATING AND ACCELERATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONS FROM MULTI-INSTRUMENT TOMOGRAPHY", will support research activities from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The University of Michigan is...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,231 research grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, to conduct a study using observations from NASA's magnetospheric missions and ground-based radar and magnetometer networks, along with the University of Michigan Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF). The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a completion date of October 31, 2024. The University...
This federal contract award, valued at $298,066.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop and space environmentally test a new low-cost induction magnetometer for small satellites. The goal is to support the development of small, low-mass, low-power, and low-cost space instruments to enable future constellation-class heliophysics missions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The...
This is a $5,019,622.58 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract is for the development and delivery of the Solar Wind and Pickup Ion Composition-Energy Spectrometer (SPICES) instrument. There is no set-aside designation associated with this award.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $129,967.90 training grant contract to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan). The contract, awarded on September 1, 2018, is focused on using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling to better understand the role of ionospheric conductance in the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and the prediction of ground-induced currents during space...
This $313,112.60 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research and development on rotating magnetic field field-reversed configuration (RMF-FRC) thruster technology for spacecraft power generation. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan has a history of receiving prime and subcontract awards from various federal agencies, including the Department of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $135,000.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, doing business as the University of Michigan, to conduct research on magnetospheres formed by solar wind interactions in the solar system. The grant is a research contract with a completion date of August 31, 2024. The University of Michigan is a U.S. state government educational institution...
This is a $128,522.71 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, to improve the modular capability of the Ionospheric Electrodynamic Model within the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). The contract is a grant for research, with a completion date of October 31, 2021. The University of Michigan is...