Grant For Research NNX06AG79G

This is a $405,299.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The objective of this project is to archive Gaskell shape models for the Saturnian satellites Rhea, Iapetus, and Enceladus within the Planetary Data System (PDS) archive, as no such models currently exist. PSI specializes in providing a wide range of research services to NASA...

This is a $320,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The award is for research related to the goals of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved. As a non-set-aside award, the contract reflects PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science research. PSI has a...

This federal contract award to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, is for a two-year research grant of $157,310.93 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant will fund a project to train citizen scientists, educators, and students across the U.S. on using low-cost robotic telescopes to conduct astronomical observations and research. The research will focus on asteroid astrometry and photometry, exoplanet...

This is a $390,912.39 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The award is for a project titled "Deriving the Rotational State of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 to Interpret EPOXI Data". The objective is to determine the rotational state of the nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 and its evolution, in order to accurately interpret observations made by the...

This is a $455,055 grant award to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research on products of explosive eruptions and pyroclastic deposits, which provide important information about the thermal history and volatile content of planetary bodies. PSI will perform data analysis, modeling, and other research services to support NASA's planetary...

This is a $308,410.43 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, titled "The Stability of Magnetic Flux Ropes: Bridging Observations and Experiments with Simulations," is for research related to planetary science, space physics, and astronomical phenomena. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating PSI's...

This is a $595,067.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, to archive all available images obtained with the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey (LONEOS) telescope into the Small Bodies Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS-SBN). The award is for fundamental research and does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science. PSI has previously...

This is a $260,361 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "ADVANCING LUNAR GEOCHEMISTRY AND PROSPECTING WITH THE KPLO GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER", which aims to support lunar geochemistry and prospecting research using data from the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) gamma-ray spectrometer. The...

The U.S. government agency Shared Services Center (formerly 80NSSC-A) awarded a $978,164 grant to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, for the project "HIGH-RESOLUTION 3D RADAR MAPPING, ANALYSIS, AND MODELING OF THE INTERNAL LAYERS WITHIN THE NORTH POLAR LAYERED DEPOSITS." The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support research and analysis related to the exploration of planets, asteroids, and other bodies in our solar system....

The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $27,066.14 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the "VENUS EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES AND CALIBRATIONS" project. This contract, with a performance period ending on December 31, 2023, is not set aside for any particular business type. PSI is a prime contractor for NASA, providing a wide range of research services in planetary science,...