Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C
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- This federal contract award to The Trustees of Princeton University supports the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) extended mission. The IBEX spacecraft, in excellent health, is operated by Princeton University under a $1,398,161.54 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The extended mission will continue to provide global imaging of the heliospheric boundary and coordinate observations with the Voyager spacecraft as they sample the local interstellar medium....
- This is a $3,001,728.38 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Trustees of Princeton University Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University. The grant covers research efforts related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including providing principal investigator leadership, managing the Princeton science effort, data analysis and publications, and supporting the overall...
- The Trustees of Princeton University received a $7.86M grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center on April 1, 2020, for research support related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission. This grant, which is not subject to any set-aside designation, will support Princeton's Office of Research and Project Administration through September 30, 2026. The award reflects the university's established role as a premier research institution capable of executing complex scientific projects...
- This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Trustees of Princeton University, acting through its Office of Research and Project Administration. The $524,570.02 grant is for research to implement a 3D model of the heliosphere in order to quantify the physical processes governing pick-up ion dynamics in the outer heliosheath and understand their potential role in forming the Interstellar Boundary Explorer...
- The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is a watershed heliophysics mission awarded to The Trustees of Princeton University by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on December 18, 2018, with a ceiling value of $43.8 million and ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026. This definitive contract with cost-no-fee pricing supports the development, integration, testing, launch, commissioning, and operation of the IMAP spacecraft, which simultaneously investigates the acceleration of...
- This is a $303,336.16 grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Trustees of Princeton University, a private university. The research is focused on the "SEPARATION AND TIME-EVOLUTION OF THE RIBBON ENA SOURCE OBSERVED BY IBEX" and has an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2023. Princeton University will perform the research as the prime contractor, and no set-aside designation was used. This award is likely part of Princeton's broader research...
- BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. received a $118.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on October 1, 2015, to serve as the prime contractor for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Phase A mission. The contract, which extends through January 31, 2027, supports the development and operations of the IXPE observatory, a NASA astrophysics mission designed to observe and measure X-ray polarization from celestial sources. The...
- The University of Iowa received a cost-no-fee definitive contract awarded March 5, 2018, by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to serve as prime contractor for Phase A concept study activities on the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellite (TRACERS) mission. With a ceiling value of $181.6 million and ultimate completion date of March 31, 2026, this contract supports NASA's Heliophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) program to develop a twin-satellite mission investigating...
- The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $338,866 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on March 1, 2021, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2026. This non-set-aside grant supports research titled "Connecting In-Situ and Global Responses in the Heliosheath and Very Local Interstellar Medium" (20-ECIP20_2-0023), which builds on seven years of scientific measurements conducted by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in the previously unexplored very local...
- The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $406,476.57 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on August 1, 2020, to investigate the temporal evolution of the heliospheric energetic neutral atom (ENA) spectrum and understand its origin as a function of radial distance from the sun. The work will be performed at Princeton's Office of Research and Project Administration in Princeton, New Jersey, with a completion date of December 31, 2024. This grant represents a non-set-aside...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center awarded The Trustees of Princeton University a $11.39 million definitive contract on March 23, 2017, for comprehensive lifecycle support of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, with an ultimate completion date of February 27, 2026. This cost-no-fee contract represents a Principal Investigator transfer from a prior agreement (NNG05EC85C) and tasks Princeton with executing all phases of the IBEX mission, including project management, design, testing, development, and operations of the payload and spacecraft. Key responsibilities encompass systems engineering coordination, launch vehicle integration support at Vandenberg Air Force Base, establishment of the Mission Control Center and IBEX Science Operations and Data Analysis Center with requisite computing infrastructure, scientific analysis in support of mission requirements, risk mitigation through trade studies, and post-operations data analysis and archiving. The contract contains no set-aside designation, indicating open competition. Princeton University has engaged multiple major subcontractors to execute distinct mission components. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation provides ongoing mission operations and support services for the on-orbit spacecraft and payload, with a subcontract awarded February 15, 2024. L3Harris Technologies supplies four-year flight dynamics support including orbit determination and annual trajectory analysis beginning October 3, 2022. Southwest Research Institute performs mission operations management and ground system development since April 24, 2017. Additional subcontractors include the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, providing science operations center support and mission planning since June 2017; the University of New Hampshire, managing extended mission science operations and payload health monitoring since June 23, 2017; and Northrop Grumman Corporation, supporting real-time operational engineering across spacecraft and payload subsystems since August 25, 2022.
ContractNumber | Description | Subcontractor | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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SUB0000598S | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C | $1.9m | 7/24/24 | |
SUB0000617S | L3Harris Technologies, Inc. | Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C | $544.0k | 4/11/24 | |
SUB0000191S | University System Of New Hampshire | Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C | $16.8m | 1/12/24 | |
SUB0000309S | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C | $1.8m | 8/31/23 | |
SUB0000598S | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Definitive Contract NNG17FC93C | $5.1m | 6/13/23 |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| 32 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $533.2k | 9/30/25 | |
| 31 | Funding Only Action | $13.0k | 9/15/25 | |
| 30 | Funding Only Action | $210.0k | 6/11/25 | |
| 29 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 4/29/25 | |
| 28 | Funding Only Action | $648.2k | 12/23/24 |