This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $431,144.20 grant provides funding for UC Berkeley to 1) refurbish the recently returned GRIPS high-altitude balloon payload, 2) evaluate replacing the current Germanium Electron Detectors (GEDs) with newer models, and 3) complete validation of GRIPS's X-ray imaging capabilities using...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $74,997 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, to maintain the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as part of the Interplanetary Network. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support research activities from April 11, 2022 through April 10, 2025. UC Berkeley is a public research university that has received over $825,000 in prime...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,161,459.90, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The contract supports the development and testing of a hard X-ray (HXR) imager detector assembly based on Medipix/Timepix detectors. These detectors will be used to observe solar flares and investigate particle acceleration, a key process in solar...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $813,139 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to develop a compact, high-resolution ultraviolet (UV) imager for space environment monitoring. This grant supports NASA's Heliophysics Division (HPD) goals, which are addressed through Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Living with a Star science programs. The proposed imager, incorporating a heritage...
This federal contract award is for the Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) Instrument Program Development (Phase B) Support, awarded by the Goddard Space Center (a NASA facility) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for $80,611,288. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Under this contract, UC Berkeley is serving as the prime contractor, with major subcontractors including the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory and BAE Systems...
This is a grant award to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to support the University's tasks on the GAPS Experiment, a search for dark matter using low-energy antiprotons and antideuterons. The primary focus of the $2,424,235.16 award is on the development and testing of silicon-lithium readout electronics and support of the flight program and scientific analysis. This grant is part of the larger GAPS...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $770,386 grant to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research related to space physics. As the prime contractor, UC Berkeley will provide data analysis and research services under the grant through December 2024, building upon its work on NASA's RHESSI mission to study solar flares. No set-aside was specified. The State of California Controllers Office will administer any funding to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,998.21 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to enhance a solar corona model and improve understanding of the Sun's corona. The one-year research effort aims to upgrade the Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM), driven by data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, and analyze the model's output compared to observations....
This $736,800 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant is for a research project titled "MAGNETIC FLUX EMERGENCE AND COUPLING OF SCALES IN ERUPTIVE CONFIGURATIONS FROM THE UPPER CONVECTION ZONE TO THE SOLAR CORONA". This is a fundamental research study that aims to improve understanding of solar physics and solar...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded a $997,040 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on forecasting large solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The research aims to use data-driven modeling and multipoint observations to better understand the connectivity between SEP origin regions, shock fronts, and the observing spacecraft. This will help quantify the...
This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), provides funding for the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar Flares (GRIPS) high-altitude balloon payload. GRIPS is a next-generation instrument for high-energy solar observations, offering high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of solar flare gamma-ray and hard X-ray emissions. The $3,410,501.00 grant will support the rebuild of the GRIPS gondola and payload, including upgrades to the detectors and associated electronics, to enable a second long-duration balloon flight. This contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aligns with the agency's science goals for heliophysics and the study of physical processes in the space environment. The contract does not utilize any set-aside designations.