This is a $535,072.47 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Space Hazards Applications LLC, a woman-owned small business. The award is for research on "Understanding, Specification, and Prediction of Lunar Space Weather" and has a period of performance through June 17, 2025. Space Hazards Applications LLC has received multiple prior awards from NASA and Aerospace Corporation, including Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Space Hazards Applications LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract, with a potential value of $124,939.00, is for the development of a tool to define solar particle access to the magnetosphere (SPAM) for the purpose of satellite anomaly attribution. Space Hazards Applications LLC has received prior SBIR and grant awards from...
This $490,276.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University aims to improve predictions and modeling of the variability of relativistic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt. The project will develop a physics-based model with data-flexible ingestion capability to provide more accurate forecasts of the energetic particle and plasma conditions encountered by spacecraft within Earth's magnetosphere. This will help mitigate...
This is a $259,289 grant award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to Space Environment Technologies, LLC, a small business, for research on "Orbital Drag Effects for LEO Satellites at Altitudes Higher than 500 km During Geomagnetic Storms." The research aims to advance the understanding and modeling of how space weather phenomena like geomagnetic storms impact the orbital dynamics of low-Earth orbit...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Space Environment Technologies, LLC, a small business, for $149,998.00. The contract is for research and development to improve forecasting of operational solar and geomagnetic indices, which are critical for monitoring and predicting space weather conditions that impact space operations. Space Environment Technologies has prior experience conducting space...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $214,177.33 grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to improve the quality of heliospheric simulations and space weather forecasting capabilities. The project will build upon the existing Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA)-ENLIL model used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for operational forecasts of solar wind and coronal mass ejection (CME) propagation. UAH will utilize its Multi-Scale...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $697,981 grant to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The grant supports research to study waves generated by accelerated particles in the Earth's magnetosphere and their impact on space weather. The research will utilize data from the ARTEMIS spacecraft, the VLASIATOR simulation code, and a new analytical model to examine the properties and dynamics of ultra-low frequency...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $207,689.17 grant to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC, doing business as Orion Space Solutions, a small business, for the project "UNDERSTANDING THE HIGH-LATITUDE GEOSPACE SYSTEM TO THE POINT OF PREDICTION: THE HELIOPHYSICS KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (HELIO-KNOW)". The grant, which has a completion date of December 31, 2022, will support Orion Space Solutions' research and development efforts to...
This is a $151,161.62 training grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support a promising female space scientist. The grant will fund a collaborative research project between UCLA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to study the role of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in depleting radiation belt relativistic electron fluxes, which is critical for space weather forecasting. The project will leverage the unique scientific capabilities...
Predictive Science Incorporated, a for-profit research and analysis company, was awarded a $399,954.00 NASA grant to provide integrated magnetohydrodynamic-focused transport modeling of solar particle events. The research seeks to advance agency goals of monitoring and predicting solar activity and its impacts on the space environment. As a prime contractor, Predictive Science has previously delivered modeling, analysis, and forecasting services to NASA, the Department of the Air Force, and...
NASA awarded a $243,623.11 grant to Space Hazards Applications LLC, a woman-owned small business, to deliver a data-driven model of the high energy electron environment near Earth. The project will build upon an existing neural network-based model to improve spatial, temporal, and energy coverage, as well as add forecast capabilities. The model will be validated against various satellite observations and provide a long-term historical record of the electron radiation environment. The improved model will help the satellite industry diagnose and anticipate satellite anomalies related to internal charging, enable NOAA to assess and warn of global space weather threats, and provide the research community with complementary data to in-situ observations from NASA's Heliophysics Observatory.