This is a delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), doing business as APL. The contract is for the GALACTIC/EXTRA-GALACTIC ULTRA LONG DURATION BALLOON SPECTROSCOPIC TERAHERTZ OBSERVATORY (GUSTO) PHASE C-D MISSION under the Aerospace Research, Development and Engineering Support (ARDES) II contract vehicle. The total potential value of this...
This is a federal contract award to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) division by the Jet Propulsion Lab, a civilian agency of the U.S. government. The contract award number is 80NM0018D0004|80NM0018F0793 for the "GAL/XGAL U/LDB SPECTROSCOPIC-STRATOSPHERIC TERAHERTZ OBSERVATORY (GUSTO)" project. The contract has a ceiling value of $502,959.08 and is a Delivery Order with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type. The ultimate completion...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), doing business as S W R I, for the Solar Terrestrial Observer for the Response Magnetosphere (STORM) Phase A Concept Study Report (CSR). The $100,000.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a completion date of March 31, 2022. This award was not set aside and is part of NASA's Heliophysics Explorers Program, which conducts principal...
This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Space Systems Division. The $2,493,567.00 contract is for a Phase A study to provide insight into potential instrument concepts that will support the Atmosphere Observing System-Sky (AOS-Sky) mission implementation. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The original federal contract opportunity was a...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5 million firm fixed price contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct a 20-month Phase A study for the GeoXO Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument. The study is in support of NOAA's GeoXO program, which aims to provide geostationary observations through a series of satellites beginning with the first launch in 2035. Under the contract, Ball Aerospace will perform instrument design, analysis,...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation was awarded a definitive contract valued at $9.13 million by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct a Phase A study for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits Sounder instrument. The study responds to Solicitation No. 80GSFC21R0027 issued by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center seeking proposals for a definition phase study of an infrared sounder to fly on NOAA's planned GEO-XO series of geostationary weather satellites, with the...
This is a $2,500,000.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the contract is to provide insight into potential instrument concepts that will support the Atmosphere Observing System - Sky (AOS-Sky) mission implementation, including developing and assessing instrument concepts, exploring...
This is a federal contract awarded by NASA Ames Research Center to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to perform the Phase A definition effort for the ARCUS X-ray grating spectroscopy explorer mission. The $25,707,536.72 contract will fund detailed mission planning, risk assessment, and preparation of a Concept Study Report to be submitted to the Explorers Program Office. Key subcontractors include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pennsylvania State University...
This federal contract award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization, supports the development of high-acuity imaging and stable photometry capabilities for balloon-borne telescopes. The $2,222,172 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to advance balloon-based observing programs to exceed the spatial resolution and exoplanet transit observation capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Kepler mission,...
This federal contract award is for the development of a concept for the Galaxy Evolution Probe, a far-infrared NASA astrophysics probe. The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded this $113,434.84 grant to conduct research and analysis to define the science goals, telescope requirements, and observatory design for the Galaxy Evolution Probe. The goal is to characterize the evolution of star formation...