This federal contract award, valued at $872,707.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA) to Purdue University, a non-profit educational institution. The contract requires Purdue to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. This includes participating as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on...
This federal contract award, valued at $448,025.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a non-profit research institution and 1862 land grant college. The award is for a research grant to generate fundamental knowledge of plant-microbe interactions that is important for understanding plant production in space, consistent with the goals of NASA's Plant Biology element in the Space Biology Science Plan 2016-2025. The award does not utilize...
This federal contract award, valued at $150,000.00, was granted to Purdue University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the subseasonal to seasonal variability pattern in the midlatitudes. Purdue University, a 1862 Land Grant College and Educational Institution, is the prime contractor for this grant. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Purdue University has a history of providing research, prototypes, designs, testing services,...
This federal contract award, NNX16AJ25G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a prime contractor. The $655,528.98 award funds research to modify the operation of quadrupole mass filters and ion traps, enabling new scanning modes that will improve signal-to-noise ratios and facilitate the detection, identification, and structural analysis of trace organics on planetary bodies. The work aims to develop small, lightweight mass spectrometers...
This federal contract award is a $798,090 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a not-for-profit educational institution located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The work will leverage data from three International Space Station sensor platforms (GEDI, DESIS, and ECOSTRESS), several space-based remote sensing platforms, and in-situ acoustic and survey data to support NASA's research objectives. The award does not have a...
This federal contract award is a $135,000 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Purdue University, a not-for-profit educational institution and 1862 land grant college located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The award supports research to incorporate a site-level model of a novel methane-oxidizing bacteria, the High Affinity Methanotroph (HAM), into a methane biogeochemistry model to quantify the net regional methane budget in the...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Purdue University, a non-profit institution of higher education and research located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The $190,148.00 grant is for research to develop sample containment systems that can preserve fragile and transitory characteristics of lunar samples, such as solar wind volatiles and volatile coatings. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. Purdue University...
This federal contract award is a grant for $564,463.00 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, an institution of higher education and research located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The primary objective of the contract is to explore the impact environment of the early solar system and investigate whether impacts are an important chondrule forming process. The contract has a completion date of March 31, 2025 and was awarded on April 1, 2020. No...
This federal contract award to Purdue University, a research institution located in West Lafayette, Indiana, supports further understanding and characterization of high-speed flow dynamics in transonic to hypersonic regimes. This research is important for the development, testing, and improvement of complex rocket and space vehicles. The contract, valued at $246,500.65, is a grant for research with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Purdue University, a non-profit educational institution and 1862 land grant college located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The $126,515.62 grant is for research related to the climate of Mars and the transport of volatiles and dust. The grant supports a range of Purdue's expertise in areas relevant to NASA's mission, including space exploration, atmospheric science, and climate...
This federal contract award to Purdue University, a not-for-profit research university and 1862 Land Grant College, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $133,448.12 award supports research to implement precursor and neutral loss scanning techniques in a single quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. This instrumentation development effort aims to enable small, power-efficient, and capable organic molecule analysis capabilities for planetary exploration missions. The project aligns with NASA's interest in advancing miniaturized tandem mass spectrometry instruments that can survey a wide range of molecules in support of fundamental questions about the origin of life. The award does not have a set-aside designation.