The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded a $1,438,861 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a spacecraft-based Liquid Ion Chromatograph (ILCESS) system that can detect soluble organic and inorganic anions on planetary missions at significantly lower levels than previous instruments. This system leverages an Open Tubular Liquid Ion Chromatograph (OTLIC) technology developed under NASA's PICASSO program, which aims to enable a compact and...
This is a $599,961.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin to design and demonstrate an ultracompact opto-electro-fluidic system for preconcentrating and separating low-abundance chiral molecules, such as amino acids, for in situ life detection in space missions. The objective is to develop a compact, lightweight, and easy-to-operate system that can efficiently enrich and separate chiral molecules under variable gravity...
This federal contract award, valued at $513,356.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The contract supports the design, fabrication, and demonstration of an advanced microfluidic electrochemical reactor technology for recovering over 75% of the oxygen from metabolically-produced carbon dioxide in spacecraft life support systems.
This award is part of NASA's Game Changing Development...
This federal contract award, NNX16AT04G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) to support the ICESAT-2 LASER REFERENCE SYSTEM CHROMATIC ABERRATION MITIGATION program. The $149,221.86 grant will fund research using an interlaced batch least squares method to estimate and address chromatic aberration in the ICESAT-2 laser reference system, in order to produce an improved attitude...
This federal contract award NNX16AP47H, valued at $116,114.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to evaluate methods for removing oxychlorines from liquid Mars samples. The goal is to enable the unambiguous detection and quantification of organic matter on future planetary missions, which is a critical objective of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The project will assess the use of strong base anion exchange (SBA) resins to...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a project titled "DIAGNOSING SUB ICE OCEAN PROCESSES WITH BASAL RADAR REFLECTOMETRY AN ANALOGUE FOR ICY OCEAN WORLDS". The $946,624 grant has an ultimate completion date of October 29, 2026. UT Austin is the prime grantee for this research effort, which is not associated with any set-aside program. The University of Texas...
This is a $50,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) for research on carbon dioxide electrolysis via electrochemical reactions in polymerized ionic liquid (POIL) membranes for oxygen resource recovery. The grant has a performance period ending on December 31, 2024. UTEP is a public research university, Hispanic-serving institution, and leading producer of Hispanic computer scientists...
This federal contract award, identified as Award ID 80NSSC21K0780, was granted by the Shared Services Center on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin, a non-profit educational institution and component of the University of Texas System. The $74,999.81 grant supports research on "Eclipsing Binaries (EBs)", which provide benchmark measurements of stellar masses and radii crucial for theoretical stellar astrophysics. The...
This federal grant award is for $147,953.78 and was issued by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Office of Research Administration Division, doing business as University Book Store, on February 1, 2021. The grant is to support the Principal Investigator (PI) in working with the NASA MMS Burst Team to ensure the seasonal guidelines for the SITL (Scientist-In-The-Loop) prioritization process are...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $3,053,928.42 grant to the University of California, Berkeley for the advancement of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6. EOA is an innovative microchip capillary electrophoresis (CE) system with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection that can analyze the quantitative compositional and chiral organic molecules in extraterrestrial locations to understand their history, habitability,...