Grant For Research NNX15AM87G
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- This is a $320,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The award is for research related to the goals of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved. As a non-set-aside award, the contract reflects PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science research. PSI has a...
- The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $406,106 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on October 1, 2024, to conduct research on "Passing Stars and the Orbital Evolution of Our Planets." This civilian research grant, which carries no set-aside designation, reflects PSI's competitive technical capabilities and will be performed at the organization's Tucson facility through September 30, 2027....
- The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $27,066.14 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the "VENUS EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES AND CALIBRATIONS" project. This contract, with a performance period ending on December 31, 2023, is not set aside for any particular business type. PSI is a prime contractor for NASA, providing a wide range of research services in planetary science,...
- The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $328,593 research grant by a civilian federal agency on November 21, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of November 20, 2027. This non-set-aside grant supports PSI's execution of a balanced science program grounded in discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, while incorporating administration priorities and Congressional...
- This is a $416,922.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, titled "TOOLS FOR ADVANCED DYNAMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM SMALL BODIES," is for research and development related to advancing the understanding of small bodies in the solar system. The grant does not utilize any set-aside designations,...
- This is a $455,055 grant award to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research on products of explosive eruptions and pyroclastic deposits, which provide important information about the thermal history and volatile content of planetary bodies. PSI will perform data analysis, modeling, and other research services to support NASA's planetary...
- The Planetary Science Institute, a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, received a $439,344 research grant from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) with a completion date of December 26, 2026. This competitively awarded grant, initiated on January 1, 2020, carries no set-aside designation and reflects PSI's technical merit in planetary science research. The government description references research into sublimative orbital perturbations and...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $101,069.31 grant to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, awarded under contract number 80NSSC19K0781, aims to develop new algorithms and computational methods to enable more accurate thermal modeling of airless planetary bodies, including the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. The work will focus on improving the ability to model the strong horizontal...
- This grant award supports research comparing ice-atmosphere interactions across three bodies in the outer solar system: Mars, Pluto, and Triton. The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona, received $441,905 to conduct this fundamental planetary science research. The grant, awarded on November 9, 2020, with an ultimate completion date of November 8, 2025, was funded through a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center. No set-aside...
- This is a $460,588.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a research project titled "Seasonal, Annual, and Multidirectional Sand Flux Trends Related to Global or Regional Forcing Factors" that aims to investigate the role of wind in transporting sediment on Mars. The grant does not utilize a set-aside...
This is a $313,865 grant awarded by NASA to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a multi-pronged 3D modeling effort to understand the habitability of rocky planets in our solar system over time and to inform the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets. The research aims to explore key dynamic components of planetary atmospheres, including atmospheric and oceanic heat transport, cloud variability, and the effects of spin-orbit evolution on climate. This work will provide insights into how Earth became and remained habitable despite climate changes, as well as the past habitability of Mars and Venus. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science research. PSI frequently collaborates with university partners and has received numerous grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation to advance fundamental knowledge of the solar system.
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