This $1,656,727.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was made to Senseics Corporation, a small for-profit business, to develop a low-cost, size, weight, and power, radiation-hard, time-of-flight LIDAR or infrared radiometry system on a chip for Earth orbit and planetary missions. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to contribute to NASA's goals of advancing sensing and imaging technologies for space...
This is a $1,749,401 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center division of NASA to Irvine Sensors Corporation, a for-profit electronics and manufacturing company. The grant supports research and development of Stacked Miniaturized and Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Electronics (SMARTIE) for space exploration applications. This grant is part of NASA's ongoing efforts to advance sensor and artificial intelligence technologies for space missions. Irvine Sensors has previously received other...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit organization that provides technical and scientific research and advisory services to NASA and other government agencies. The grant, valued at $287,222.44, is for a project to understand the variability of the radiation environment in the inner magnetosphere and assess its impact on spacecraft materials. The key objectives are to characterize how solar wind...
This $174,303 research grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate to Space Initiatives Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The grant supports research on "Swarming Proxima Centauri Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances," which focuses on theoretical modeling, simulations, and data analysis for deploying miniaturized spacecraft to study the Proxima Centauri system. This work aligns...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Night Crew Labs LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct flight testing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation autonomous system for commercial space weather applications. The total potential value of the grant is $294,600.00, and the period of performance ends on August 31, 2022. The contract is not associated with a larger vehicle and does not...
This federal contract award, number 80NSSC25K7606, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Skyeports LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. The $174,930.00 grant is for a project that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions, with a focus on advancing concepts from...
This is a $120,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the International Space University Organization, Inc., a private non-profit educational institution. The grant is to fund an Advanced Concepts and Innovation via Interdisciplinary Research Team Projects program, which involves intense, original research activities conducted by multidisciplinary, international groups of postgraduate students and professionals. The program focuses on identifying...
This is a $79,848.51 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The award is for Dr. Quintin Schiller to assist in the development, testing, and calibration of a scientific instrument, including the detector head and telescope electronics. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, and SSI has a history of receiving both federal...
This is a $369,718.67 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit research and development organization. The grant funds Dr. Lawrence DeLucas to provide scientific guidance and support for protein purification, crystal analysis, and operation of the confocal fluorescent microscope on the International Space Station (ISS). This includes responsibilities for the initial ISS mission in 2017 and a second mission planned for...
This is a federal grant award to Sri International, a non-profit research and development institute, in the amount of $364,749.00. The award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on September 1, 2020, with a projected completion date of January 27, 2023. The grant is for a research project exploring the effects of particle radiation on cellular ubiquitin pools, both short-term and long-term. Sri International frequently serves as a prime recipient on grants,...