Grant For Research 80NSSC21K0666

This is a grant award to The Johns Hopkins University for the ESA-CAS Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, a unique international pathfinding mission that will employ flight-proven soft X-ray and ultraviolet imager technologies to study problems central to heliophysics. The $240,000 grant, awarded by a civilian federal agency, will fund this self-standing mission that does not require observations from other sources to achieve its scientific goals. The SMILE mission...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,213,559.00 grant to Trustees of Boston University to conduct the CUSP Plasma Imaging Detector (CUPID) CubeSat mission. The CUPID observatory will use a soft X-ray telescope to image ion dispersions in the Earth's magnetospheric cusps, providing insights into the macroscale dynamics of magnetic reconnection that facilitates the transfer of energy from the solar wind into the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. This research...

This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston University supports the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and China Academy of Sciences. The $181,733 grant contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), funds Boston University's investigations of X-ray optical elements and scientific modeling and analysis for the SMILE mission. The SMILE mission employs proven soft X-ray and...

The Smithsonian Institution, through its Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division, was awarded a $830,745.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop high-speed, back-illuminated Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) soft X-ray detectors. The goal is to enhance capabilities for soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) dynamic imaging to study phenomena like solar flares, active regions, and the quiet sun on sub-second timescales. This...

This is a $495,440 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant supports research to investigate the generation and characteristics of waves produced by relativistic electron beams in solar plasma environments, with the goal of improving understanding of the energy partitioning and propagation of solar energetic particles. The research will utilize laboratory experiments, simulations, and comparisons...

This federal contract award is for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, a NASA Science Mission Directorate initiative that aims to advance understanding of the boundary region where the solar wind interacts with the local interstellar medium. The prime contractor is The Trustees of Princeton University, which will oversee the development of IMAP to ensure cost, risk, and science objectives are met. The contract has a ceiling value of $43,773,223 and is not set aside...

This is a $510,820.60 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a three-year research program studying anomalous solar wind and interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). The research aims to characterize the in-situ properties of these anomalous events, identify their source regions on the Sun, and understand the...

This contract is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in partnership with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The $400,000.00 award is for a research program aimed at developing and demonstrating a new imaging technology with unprecedented capabilities for scientific exploration. The key focus is on advancing computational diffractive optical sensing,...

This is a $400,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), to develop a new heavy ion mass spectrometer as part of the Technology Development Opportunity (TDO) for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The proposed Solar Wind and Pickup Ion Composition Energy Spectrometer...

This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston University (BU), a private, non-profit educational institution, supports the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, an international, pathfinding mission to study the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction. BU will investigate X-ray optical elements and provide scientific modeling and analysis for this mission, which is expected to achieve compelling scientific goals in the field of heliophysics. The $229,505...