The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $399,282 Cooperative Agreement to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, a public research university in Golden, Colorado. The contract is for the design, development, and evaluation of techniques and systems to support the monitoring of dynamic phenomena using a swarm robotic system. Key aspects include network-aware coordination of spacecraft for distributed data...
This federal contract award, valued at $148,404.34, was granted to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, a public research university. The contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support research into locating and determining the existence of lunar volatiles in the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs). This research is critical to developing future lunar volatile mining efforts. The contract...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,953,700.00, was granted to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, a public research university in Golden, Colorado. The contract, titled "AUTONOMOUS SITE PREPARATION: EXCAVATION, COMPACTION, AND TESTING" (ASPECT), is for research and development services under a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2025...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $498,790.72 grant to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as the Colorado School of Mines, to develop an intelligent drilling system for material characterization while drilling on the Moon and Mars. The goal is to create a low-powered drill unit using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits that can analyze drilling parameters to identify the properties of the subsurface, such as density, cohesion, and...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been granted to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, a public research university focused on science and engineering. The $137,351.00 grant supports research activities that contribute to NASA's science, technology, and exploration goals as outlined in the agency's 2022 Strategic Plan. The award is not set aside and aligns with NASA's objective to...
This federal contract award is a training grant provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (doing business as the Colorado School of Mines), a public research university focused on science and engineering located in Golden, Colorado. The $148,399.89 award aims to investigate the use of ceramic microchannel reactor technology as an innovative solution for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to support NASA's space...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, a public research university in Golden, Colorado. The $450,000.00 grant funds research to study the folding dynamics of fabricated colloidal chains in a microgravity environment and the 3D assembly of two-dimensional micro wheel-like colloidal clusters. The grant does not have a...
Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded a $100,996.26 firm-fixed-price grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant, which has a period of performance through March 7, 2024 and was awarded on May 1, 2021, supports research related to characterizing near-Earth asteroids through planetary radar observations. No set-aside designation was applied to this award. The Colorado School of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $599,296 grant to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as the Colorado School of Mines, a public research university located in Golden, Colorado. The grant is for research related to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a staging point for manned and unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The Gateway will be primarily staffed by autonomous caretaker robots, creating a unique human-technical...
This federal contract award is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as the Colorado School of Mines. The $121,112.63 grant is focused on furthering NASA's space exploration objectives and creating opportunities for space commerce. The award does not have a set-aside designation. As a public research university specializing in science and engineering, the Colorado School of Mines...