This federal contract award, valued at $9,290,842.24, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop and launch the Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) CubeSat. The 6U CubeSat will enter a polar orbit around the Moon with a low 5-12 km altitude perilune centered on the lunar South Pole. LunaH-Map will carry two neutron spectrometers to map the distribution of near-surface hydrogen within permanently shadowed regions of the...
This is a $599,505.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop a Deployable Optical Receiver Aperture for Lunar Communications and Navigation. The contract has a period of performance through June 30, 2025. ASU, a comprehensive public research university, will provide the required research and engineering services through its division doing business as Orspa. The university has...
This federal contract award to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, is for $406,997 to provide ground data processing services for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Arizona, a public research university and 1862 land grant institution, has extensive experience providing scientific research, data analysis, and technical support services to various...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,582,000.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, to provide research support for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) instrument. The research undertaken by the University of Arizona involves the calibration and analysis of LEND data products, which are used by the instrument team and other scientists...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $3.26 million grant to Arizona State University's Orspa division for the Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper - Part 2 (LunaH-Map) contract. The research grant runs from October 2020 through October 2024 and will fund the second phase of mapping water ice deposits on the Moon's poles. As the prime contractor, Arizona State University will leverage its expertise in lunar science and exploration to help NASA further its...
This federal contract award was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Arizona State University (ASU) to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The $1,024,020 grant, with a performance period ending on December 31, 2027, will have ASU participate as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit,...
Arizona State University (ASU), doing business as Orspa, was awarded a $102,678.68 grant for research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, which has a completion date of August 30, 2020, is for a "Long-Lived Roving Lunar Explorer, Intrepid, to Collect Essential Measurements to Address Key Scientific and Exploration Questions, and Demonstrate Technologies Required for Future Robotic and Human Exploration of the Moon, Mars." No...
This is a federal contract award from NASA to Arizona State University for the ShadowCam instrument on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) mission. NASA is sponsoring the ShadowCam instrument, which will map the reflectance in permanently shadowed lunar regions to search for evidence of frost or ice deposits. The $39,677,936 fixed-price contract has multiple subcontractors, including Intuitive Machines, the University of Hawaii, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and...
This federal contract award is a $286,646.80 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct research on lunar impact melt samples. The goal is to use ultraviolet laser ablation microprobe (UVLAMP) technology to quantify the distribution of radiogenic argon-40 in ancient plagioclase crystals found in Apollo 15 and 16 lunar impact melt breccias. This will help constrain the ages and thermal histories of the impact melts. The...
This federal contract award is for the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Segment, Phase D/E Effort under the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project. The contract, valued at $37,337,616.00, was awarded on January 1, 2009 to UCLA, a U.S. state government entity and 1862 Land Grant College, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center. The contract is a definitive, cost-no-fee contract with an ultimate...