This is a $38,000.00 grant awarded by NASA to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), for research related to the discovery of multiplanet systems from the Kepler mission. The grant will fund obtaining 20 second cadence observations of 915 relatively bright stars to enrich the sample of multiplanet systems. This award is not set aside for any special categories of businesses. UC Berkeley, a public research university,...
This is a $100,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to study the mass and radius of small exoplanets detected by the Kepler and K2 space telescopes. The goal is to obtain mass measurements with 15% precision in order to better understand the composition and potential habitability of these planets. The grant will fund new K2 observations, as well as follow-up radial velocity measurements using...
This is a $100,474.03 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant is part of NASA's Astrophysical Research Program and will directly benefit the agency's Exoplanet Exploration Program, which focuses on discovering and characterizing exoplanets. The contract has no set-aside designation and is for the purpose of conducting research. UC...
This federal contract award from NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is for research to investigate the co-evolution of exoplanets and debris disks. The $598,308.32 grant will fund research to address unanswered questions about the formation and behavior of planetary systems discovered around nearby stars, which are analogous to the late heavy bombardment period in the solar system's history. As a public research university, UC Berkeley has a long history of conducting...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K0250, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an agency of NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $481,134.00 grant is for a research project with the following key goals: (1) obtain high-resolution images of potential host stars for candidate planets, (2) place limits on unseen stellar companions, (3) reveal companion stars, (4) determine physical...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0484, was granted to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $299,992.00 grant is for research related to the Exobiology Program, which focuses on the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The award does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, a public...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0674, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a division of NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the detection and study of exoplanets and their exposure to stellar radiation and wind. The $268,899.51 grant is a research contract and does not have a set-aside designation, indicating open competition. UC Berkeley, as the prime contractor, will leverage its expertise in space physics, astronomy, and advanced...
This is a $75,354.08 grant award from NASA to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) for the K2 M Dwarf Program (K2-MDP) to monitor nearby M dwarf stars for transiting exoplanets in Fields 8 and 10 of the K2 mission. The program aims to dramatically increase the number of known M dwarf planetary systems, identify new potentially habitable exoplanets, and characterize the physical properties of these systems in support of future James Webb Space Telescope observations. UCSC, a...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K0530, was granted by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $602,585.32 grant is for a research project titled "Massive Stars Lie at the Center of the Web of Physical Processes that Has Shaped the Universe as We Know It" and is set to be completed by March 15, 2024. The award is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside...
This is a $547,557 federal grant award to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant is for UC Berkeley to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and Congressional direction. The research will focus on scientific activities related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, with a goal of...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $109,079.46 grant supports the extended Kepler K2 Mission, which aims to discover a new population of rocky and potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting nearby M dwarf stars. UC Berkeley will analyze observations from Kepler K2 Campaigns 17-19 to detect and validate approximately 25 additional small planets around these low-mass stars. The research team expects to identify 100-200 small planets from the full K2 M Dwarf Program, some potentially habitable, which will significantly expand the known population of M dwarf planetary systems. This award does not use a small business set-aside. The parent organization overseeing UC Berkeley's administration of the funding is the State of California Controllers Office.