Definitive Contract 80MSFC26C0014

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a $24.8 million definitive contract to The Regents of The University of Colorado on April 6, 2026, for the DUSTER instrument, which will measure dust, plasma, micrometeoroid impacts, and lander ejecta at the lunar south pole to assess hazards for Artemis missions. The contract carries cost-no-fee pricing and completion is due June 30, 2029. Place of performance is Boulder, Colorado. The solicitation calls for development and delivery of a lunar dust...

This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, is to develop and advance the flight readiness of the Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (EDA) instrument. The EDA will be used to explore electrostatic dust transport phenomena on the lunar surface, in order to understand its role in shaping the properties of the lunar regolith. The $2,993,466.91 grant will raise the...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $650,000 grant contract to support research relating to the unique mechanical and electrostatic properties of lunar dust. The research will be conducted over a four-year period ending January 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. Lunar dust consists of rock pulverized by frequent micrometeoroid impacts and the resulting dust particles are known to be sharp and jagged with irregular shapes. This contract is...

This federal contract award to the University of Colorado, worth $134,943.37, is for the Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment (LADEE) mission. The LDEX monitored ejecta clouds generated by the continual bombardment of the lunar surface by interplanetary dust fluxes and meteoroid showers. The data collected will be used to better define the spatial and temporal dust flux to the Moon and its role in sustaining the tenuous lunar atmosphere. This contract,...

<p>NASA's Glenn Research Center awarded a definitive contract to 3M Company for $367,948.60 on September 8, 2025, to develop a lunar dust mitigation coating that minimizes electrostatic adhesion forces on solar cells and thermal control surfaces.</p> <p>The coating technology is designed to reduce performance losses from lunar dust accumulation. Work is performed in St. Paul, Minnesota, under firm fixed price terms. The contract runs through February 28, 2027.</p>

NASA's Johnson Space Center issued a $94,296.51 delivery order to The Regents of the University of Colorado on April 29, 2026, under the university's $15 million Low Earth Orbit Space Life Science Research Platform IDV awarded July 8, 2025. The order funds continued testing in the International Space Station cabin environment in support of the Particulate Monitoring Project with the Exploration Aerosol Monitors (EXAM) payload. Place of performance is Houston, TX 77058. The order is firm fixed...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a $5,029,295 definitive contract to The Regents of the University of Colorado for the Lunar Compact Infrared System (L-CIRIS) on January 6, 2020, under cost-no-fee pricing with no set-aside. Place of performance is Boulder, CO. The contract supports development and delivery of the L-CIRIS instrument with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. Government-invoiced labor across the contract lifecycle shows a small, declining footprint: FY2021...

This federal contract award with ID NNX16AO81G was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The $456,959.68 grant is for a research project titled &quot;LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS OF ELECTROSTATIC DUST LOFTING AND TRANSPORT ON THE SURFACES OF AIRLESS BOD&quot;. The research aims to understand the behavior of electrostatically charged dust particles...

The University of Colorado, through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, has been awarded a $150,000 research grant by a federal civilian agency's Shared Services Center to develop a high-resolution dust analyzer for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe Mission. The grant, issued on December 1, 2024, with a completion deadline of November 30, 2027, represents a competitive award made without set-aside designation. Work will be performed at the university's Boulder, Colorado campus, leveraging...

This is a $1,155,722.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado for the Debris and Meteoroid Environment Sensor (DENTS) instrument technology development project. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a period of performance through February 28, 2026. As the prime contractor, the University of Colorado will leverage its expertise in space physics, climate science, and aerospace engineering to conduct...