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This is a grant awarded by NASA to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to provide an independent validation of the ATL11 ice sheet elevation change data product for the ICESat-2 satellite mission. The primary objective of the ICESat-2 mission is to monitor elevation changes of the polar ice sheets to quantify their contribution to sea level rise. The $148,393.44 grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on December 1, 2016 with a completion...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center to Ai Solutions Inc. to develop a CubeSat satellite to measure the temperature of a metallic object coated with a cryogenic selective surface in space. The key objectives are to provide adequate shielding from Earth's albedo radiation and the satellite's own heat generation, maintain the coated sample's orientation towards deep space, and measure the sample and satellite structure...

The University of Colorado, Boulder, received a $858,863.99 grant from NASA to create an integrated time series of altimetry-based elevation models using data from various satellite and airborne altimetry instruments, including ICESat-2. The goal is to improve understanding of mass balance, surface melting, and energy fluxes in the climate system, particularly for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The research directly supports NASA's Earth Science Research Opportunities in Space and Earth...

This contract award to Utah State University (USU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is for the development of a thermal management system known as the Active Thermal Architecture for Cryogenic Optical Instruments (ATACOI). The ATACOI system is intended to enable new CubeSat-based Earth science and heliophysics missions by advancing technologies for deployable solar tracking radiators, rotational fluid unions, and vibration/thermal isolation of...

This is a federal grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Earth And Space Research (ESR), a nonprofit research institute, for a study titled "Understanding the Climate Drivers of Antarctic Ice Shelf Changes Through Analyses of Multi-Mission Satellite Data". The grant, valued at $953,819, runs from February 2017 to July 2021. The study aims to develop techniques to extend the record of Antarctic ice shelf height changes using data from ESA's CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $482,189 grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop multi-decadal time series of elevation and mass balance changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The research will utilize the Surface Elevation Reconstruction and Change (SERAC) detection approach to analyze historical laser altimetry data, IceBridge airborne laser altimetry observations, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry...

This federal contract award to Earth And Space Research (ESR), a nonprofit research institute, is for a project titled "ICESat 2 Science Team Observing and Quantifying Interactions Between Sea Ice, Ice Shelves, Icebergs and the Ocean Around Antarctica Using ICESat 2 Altimetry." The $590,208 grant-funded research project, awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center, will focus on using data from the ICESat-2 satellite to study the interactions between sea ice, ice shelves, icebergs, and...

This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, provides $115,471.69 in funding for research to accurately measure the absolute temperature of sea ice and air-sea-ice heat flux using an infrared radiometer. The radiometer, known as the Ball Experimental Sea Surface Temperature (BESST) radiometer, will be deployed on NASA's 2016 Operation IceBridge flights to collect temperature data and establish the utility of a new...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Delivery Order awarded by NASA Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland. The order is for the ICE, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Standing Review Board (SRB) in 2016. The ICESat-2 mission is a project within NASA's Science Mission Directorate focused on studying the Earth's ice sheets, sea ice, and vegetation. The purpose of this task order is to...

This federal contract award, valued at $382,307.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to analyze data from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. The overarching goal is to evaluate ICESat-2's capability to observe and measure changes in the cryosphere, such as glacial acceleration and melt processes, which are critical to understanding...