Grant For Research NNX15AI71G
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- This is a $67,954 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for research on the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The award is part of a joint research effort between NASA's NuSTAR and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to investigate black hole flares, shadows, and a new hard X-ray source. The grant is a firm fixed-price contract with no set-aside designation, allowing MSU to compete...
- This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC21K0628, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for research related to black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs in globular star clusters. The $377,171.00 grant, awarded on February 24, 2021, is for a research project with an ultimate completion date of August 15, 2025. MSU, a top research university, has previously served as a prime contractor for NASA, conducting...
- This is a $59,963 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The research, titled "JOINT NUSTAR AND EHT PROBE OF SGR A*: FLARES, BLACK HOLE SHADOWS AND A NEW HARD X-RAY SOURCE," will use NASA's NuSTAR satellite and the Event Horizon Telescope to study the black hole known as Sagittarius A*. The grant does not have a set-aside designation,...
- This $70,591 grant award to Michigan State University (MSU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will fund a 60,000-second (approximately 16.7-hour) observation of a new gamma-ray bright nova to explore particle acceleration and gamma-ray production mechanisms. MSU is a leading public research university and prominent NASA contractor, having received a $2.7 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for radiation testing...
- This is a $113,364.71 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for the "Uncovering Fermi Galactic Binaries with SOAR Spectroscopy" project. The grant is to support a two-year program to discover and characterize new galactic compact binaries among unidentified Fermi sources through spectroscopic and photometric observations. The project aims to obtain spectroscopic orbital solutions for 20 new galactic Fermi sources,...
- This is a $91,933.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to Michigan State University (MSU) for a research project titled "JOINT NUSTAR AND EHT PROBE OF SGR A FLARES BLACK HOLE SHADOWS AND A NEW HARD X RAY SOURCE". The project has an ultimate completion date of November 26, 2025. This grant does not have a set-aside designation. MSU is a premier land-grant public research university known for its expertise across diverse fields. The university has a strong...
- The Regents of the University of Michigan received a $42,465 grant award from a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center to support research tracking two future black hole outbursts using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) missions. The award, issued January 9, 2024, with completion targeted for January 8, 2027, represents a non-set-aside research grant managed through the university's Office of Research and Sponsored...
- This is a $52,771 grant awarded to Michigan State University (MSU) by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "OBSERVATIONS OF THE JWST/GTO MERGING CLUSTER PLCK G165.7+67.0" research project. The grant, which has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026, does not have a set-aside designation. MSU is the prime awardee on this grant, which supports the university's expertise in space-related research and instrumentation. As a...
- This $14,996.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University to conduct research on "CONSTRAINING THE DISTANCES TO TRANSIENT BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARIES WITH SWIFT". The grant is for a period of approximately 2 years, with a completion date of September 30, 2025. Montana State University is a top-tier research university and land-grant institution with a strong track record in securing federal research contracts and grants....
- The U.S. government awarded a $18,879.80 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan for the project "CONSTRAINING THE X-RAY VARIABILITY PROPERTIES OF THE QUIESCENT BLACK HOLE V404 CYG." This research grant, which has an ultimate completion date of April 23, 2024, was awarded on September 1, 2022 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan has a history of conducting research and...
This $284,827 grant award was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) to identify neutron star and black hole low-mass X-ray binaries in elliptical and S0 galaxies using Chandra and XMM data. The goal is to test whether the stellar initial mass function varies systematically with early-type galaxy properties. This research project does not have a set-aside designation. MSU, a premier public research university, has a long history of conducting specialized research and development for federal agencies like NASA through contract and grant awards. The university has established a significant Blanket Purchase Agreement with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for radiation testing services, demonstrating its ongoing relationship and capabilities in supporting the agency's space exploration programs.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 3/30/18 | ||
| 5 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 3/30/18 | |
| 4 | Funding Only Action | $0 | 3/5/17 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 3/5/17 | ||
| Not listed | $35.8k | 12/23/16 |