This federal contract award, valued at $358,099.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The award supports research to improve understanding of the physical processes responsible for the origin and evolution of the solar wind, in preparation for NASA's upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission. The research will involve laboratory experiments at the University of...
This is a $269,682 research grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The grant is for a project titled "Are Coulomb Collisions Sufficient to Predict Observed Non-Thermal Solar Wind Electrons, Including Their Heat Flow?" The grant does not have a set-aside designation, indicating SSI competed for the award based on scientific and technical merit. As a prime contractor, SSI has extensive...
This is a $1,089,868.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a non-profit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant is for a research project titled "ADVANCED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOLAR WIND CONTROL OF MAGNETOSPHERIC ACTIVITY AND MAGNETOSPHERIC PARTICLE POPULATIONS." The project will conduct advanced analysis of solar wind data to better understand its impact on the Earth's magnetosphere...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was granted to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The $400,000.00 grant is for the project "Analyzing the Plasmas Upstream and Downstream of Interplanetary Shocks: Turbulence and Compressed Structure Science Goals and Methodology." The project aims to study the properties and origins of plasma fluctuations...
This is a $1,350,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The grant is for a project titled "The Heliospheric Current-Sheet Network and the Cellularization of the Solar Wind." The award does not have a set-aside designation. SSI has extensive experience supporting NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy (DOE) in areas...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18K1452, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The $90,000.00 grant supports research on how substorm dipolarizations and flows affect the magnetic field and electric currents, with the goal of gaining insight into the drivers of the current wedge system associated with substorm events. This work involves 3D...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The $233,641 grant is funding a research investigation with three key objectives: (1) studying the methods by which waves are created in the solar wind, (2) characterizing the physical attributes of those waves, and (3) examining how the waves interact with the heavy ion...
This is a $459,214.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund a research project focused on understanding the role of plasma waves and instabilities in collisionless shocks - a ubiquitous phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas that can influence...
The Space Science Institute, a Boulder, Colorado-based non-profit research organization, received a single-source grant award of $356,517.77 from NASA's Science Mission Directorate on August 24, 2022. The grant, which carries a completion deadline of December 31, 2024, supports scientific research and analysis activities within SSI's core competency areas, including astrophysics, planetary science, atmospheric science, solar and space physics, and related computational modeling. As a...
This federal contract award, valued at $390,344.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a non-profit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The contract requires SSI to execute a balanced science program focused on discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The work will include participating as a key partner in...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The contract, valued at $224,998.00, is for a research project titled "Quantifying Turbulent Dissipation in the Solar Wind Using State-of-the-Art Observations and Kinetic Simulations." The project aims to investigate how energy cascades and is ultimately dissipated in the solar wind, leveraging recent advancements in petascale kinetic simulations and close collaboration with observational data. This work is expected to provide important support for existing and upcoming NASA missions, such as Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe, by improving the understanding of solar wind turbulence and heating. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and SSI frequently serves as a prime contractor and grant recipient for NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy in the areas of astrophysics, planetary science, and space physics research.