This federal contract award, valued at $308,722.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The contract is for research focused on optimizing spacecraft maneuvers to minimize state errors rather than just propellant usage, which is critical for precision control in low-gravity environments like asteroid missions. The research aims to...
This federal contract award, valued at $258,088.67, was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is for research and development related to spacecraft trajectory design in multi-body systems, which are becoming more prevalent. The award is a grant for research and is not associated with a set-aside. The University of...
This is a federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for the development of models and tools to characterize and utilize the small body environment for close proximity landing and surface operations. The $275,570.07 contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), supports research to improve understanding of asteroid and comet surfaces, electrostatic charging, and spacecraft interactions....
This federal contract award, valued at $333,288.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The contract is a grant for research aimed at addressing the critical challenge of spacecraft state uncertainty due to the unpredictable nature of space dynamics. The research supported under this award seeks to develop methods to mitigate errors that...
This is a $324,732 training grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, on August 1, 2022. The contract, which has a period of performance through July 31, 2026, is for the "Robust Optimization of Spacecraft Trajectories Using Statistical Thruster Failure Models" project. The university, a prominent public research institution, has a robust federal contract and grant portfolio across...
This is a $297,420.29 grant awarded by NASA to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for research to support missions designed to explore cislunar and deep space. The research will focus on trajectory construction within multi-body systems through roadmap generation, which is critical for meeting NASA's goal of expanding humanity's knowledge of the solar system and scientific understanding of the universe. CU is a prominent public research university with extensive expertise in space...
This federal contract award, valued at $145,307.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The award is for a mission concept study to determine the number of spacecraft, their optimal orbits, instrumentation, and implementation costs for a future science mission. No set-aside designation was used....
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K1193, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The $92,802.62 grant is for research in the field of spacecraft dynamics and trajectory design using machine learning techniques, an area that has not been thoroughly explored. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC19K1156, was granted by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The $304,972.00 grant is for research on flying spacecraft in formations, which can provide advantages over traditional single spacecraft missions. The University of Colorado, an accredited public...
This federal contract award, valued at $446,446.53, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The award is for the development of a coupled model that combines a first-principles physics-based Fokker-Planck (FP) simulation with machine-learning-based predictive models to provide initial, boundary, and other...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, is focused on developing an optimization framework to coordinate the trajectories of multiple spacecraft for various mission objectives. The $304,270.00 award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will investigate cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios, including spacecraft rendezvous, science missions, and debris avoidance. The research will leverage differential game theory to generalize the optimization approach and explore the information sharing needed for successful autonomous cooperation between spacecraft. This work has applications for increasingly complex space missions that rely on coordinating multiple assets, such as NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission and potential future manned Mars missions. The award does not have a set-aside designation.