Grant For Research 80NSSC23K0696
Active Awarded Last action
- Contract number
- 80NSSC23K0696
- Awardee
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The Aerospace Corporation UEI YA8LJBJCND19
- Awarding agency
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Shared Services Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Obligated
- $695,828
Award facts
- Contract value 100% obligated
- $695,828.00 Current and potential, with all options
- Completion date 91% complete
- Current and potential, with all options
- Contracting staff
- NAICS code
- Not on record
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition Basic Research
- Pricing
- Other
- Place of performance
- El Segundo, CA, USA
Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Funding Only Action | $189,609 | |
| Funding Only Action | $288,207 | |
| Original award | $218,012 |
About this award
The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center headquartered in El Segundo, California, received a $695,828 grant award from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) on March 2, 2023, to develop a miniaturized charging mitigation shell (CMS) instrument subsystem for next-generation magnetospheric plasma sensors. The project, with an ultimate completion date of March 1, 2027, addresses a critical technical challenge in space physics research: the positive charging of spacecraft surfaces in sunlight, which prevents accurate measurement of low-energy cold plasma populations in the magnetosphere. The proposed CMS technology aims to enable direct measurement of cold ions by mitigating the spacecraft's electrostatic potential structure, thereby reducing contamination from photoelectrons and secondary electrons that currently obscure ambient cold electron and ion detection. This advancement would significantly improve measurement capabilities in regions where existing approaches, such as active spacecraft potential control (ASPOC) systems, remain insufficient.
The research directly supports NASA's space physics and magnetospheric science objectives, with particular relevance to understanding magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, space weather phenomena, and plasma dynamics in Earth's magnetosphere. The Aerospace Corporation's work on this initiative builds upon its extensive portfolio of NASA-funded research in space physics, including prior grants supporting magnetospheric instrumentation development and advanced sensor technologies. No set-aside designation was applied to this contract award, consistent with The Aerospace Corporation's status as an FFRDC receiving specialized technical research funding. The grant will be performed at the contractor's El Segundo, California facility, leveraging the organization's proven expertise in spacecraft instrumentation, systems engineering, and space environment characterization.
Quick answers
Who was awarded contract 80NSSC23K0696?
80NSSC23K0696 was awarded to The Aerospace Corporation by Shared Services Center (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) on March 2, 2023.
How much is contract 80NSSC23K0696 worth?
The government has obligated $695,828 on 80NSSC23K0696.
Was contract 80NSSC23K0696 competed?
The extent of competition for 80NSSC23K0696 was full and open competition.
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