Grant For Research 80NSSC24K1876

This is a federal grant award from the Shared Services Center (a component of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Lunar Resources, Inc. for the development of the FARVIEW OBSERVATORY, a large, in-situ manufactured, lunar far side radio array. The grant has a total ceiling value of $599,723.00 and an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025. This grant award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. Lunar Resources, Inc. is...

This federal contract award was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., a woman-owned small business. The $99,961 grant is for research and development of a "thin-film, nearly weightless broadband diffractive waveplate lens" that can provide advanced imaging capabilities for NASA observation and exoplanet detection missions. This innovative optical technology aims to enable the construction of very large aperture...

This is a $839,178.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded to Cesiumastro Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer, by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a "Communications and Sensing System" to support "Commercial-Scale Arrays for Lunar Exploration." The contract has a completion date of January 11, 2024. Cesiumastro Inc. has established itself as a...

This is a $196,299.00 grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The contract, titled "SPECTROSCOPIC PROBES OF QUANTITATIVE REIONIZATION," supports advanced astronomical research and scientific instrumentation development for space telescope missions. The award has an ultimate...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center has awarded a $515,927 grant to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (Baer Institute) to meet science objectives related to following 150 loops from 15 bipolar non-flaring solar active regions for 24 hours each. The Baer Institute, a non-profit research organization, will inspect Atmospheric Imaging Assembly extreme ultraviolet images and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager magnetograms using specified methods to...

This is a $5,111,968.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER Institute), a non-profit research organization. The award is for a program that has been obtaining high-resolution speckle images of exoplanet host stars for over a decade, supporting exoplanet research for missions like Kepler, K2, and TESS. The effort involves a community-based approach with input from...

This federal contract award of $490,700 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (Baer Institute), a non-profit research organization. The award was a grant for research under solicitation NNH17ZDA001N-SSW and relates to the transfer of a previous award 17-SSW17-0296 due to a change in the principal investigator. The contract has a completion date of May 8, 2024 and is not set aside for any...

This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23CA045, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Cesiumastro Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of communications modules, payloads, and satellites. The award, valued at $90,000.00, is for the SBIR Phase III Commercial-Scale Arrays for Lunar Exploration: Communications and Sensing System project, which is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program effort. The contract is a definitive contract with a firm fixed-price...

This federal contract award was granted to the American Institute of Physics Incorporated (AIP), a non-profit organization that specializes in scientific publishing, research support, and educational initiatives in physics and related fields. The award, valued at $34,000.00, is for a research project titled "Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets" and was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award is a grant for...

This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0372, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), operating as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The $485,513.00 grant is for research aimed at enabling future exo-Earth imaging space telescopes, such as the Habex and LUVOIR mission concepts, through advancements in wavefront sensing and control...