This is a $355,719.71 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The grant supports research to understand the interaction between the ionosphere and magnetosphere, particularly during geomagnetic storm conditions. The study aims to characterize the evolution of the global plasmasphere, the relationship between plasmaspheric plumes and subauroral polarization streams, and the variability of...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center. The $525,000 grant supports research to determine the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs, which aligns with a high-level science goal from NASA's Heliophysics Decadal Survey. The Aerospace Corporation has a long history of providing...
This $120,021 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was awarded to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focused on the space enterprise. The grant supports research on "Electron Acceleration by Transient Ion Foreshock Phenomena", which is a fundamental physical process in space, laboratory, and astrophysical plasmas. The research aims to improve understanding of electron acceleration, which is ubiquitous...
This is a $340,004 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in El Segundo, California. The objective of the grant is to model the effects of diffuse auroral precipitation on the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (MIT) system, specifically the impact on thermospheric neutral density and low Earth orbit propagation. The Aerospace Corporation has a broad range...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit organization that provides technical and scientific research and advisory services to NASA and other government agencies. The grant, valued at $287,222.44, is for a project to understand the variability of the radiation environment in the inner magnetosphere and assess its impact on spacecraft materials. The key objectives are to characterize how solar wind...
This is a $448,377.21 grant award issued by NASA to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The grant is for research to study the interactions between plasma waves and energetic electrons that contribute to the formation of the Earth's radiation belts. The work will make detailed comparisons between particle and wave observations from the Van Allen Probes mission and theoretical calculations. This research supports NASA's scientific...
This is a $99,699.55 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The grant is for research related to "particle energization and transport" in the near-Earth magnetotail, which is an important process for understanding space weather phenomena. The Aerospace Corporation has a broad portfolio of federal contracts and grants supporting advanced scientific...
This federal contract award is a $495,000 grant for research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center. The research aims to characterize electron microinjections observed by the MMS/FEEPS sensors and use modeling to understand their generation, source regions, and role in energizing the outer radiation belt. This work directly supports NASA's goals of understanding magnetosphere-ionosphere...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $350,000.00 grant to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center, to investigate the effects of low-energy plasma composition on electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in the Earth's magnetosphere. The grant supports analysis of particle and wave measurements from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to better understand the role of plasma composition in the properties of EMIC...
This is a $349,924.82 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit research and development organization, to investigate the drift-bounce dispersion of microbursts and their potential ability to explain the observation of 30-60 km fine-scale, persistent structures in over 35 keV electrons precipitating into the Earth's atmosphere. The research will utilize data from The Aerospace Corporation's Aerocube-6 (AC6) mission, a...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), to study the effects of precipitating electrons on the coupling between the magnetosphere and ionosphere. The $394,817.71 grant will support the development of models to investigate how electron scattering by waves in the magnetosphere affects trapped electron fluxes and precipitating electron energy flux distributions during magnetic storms. This research aims to improve understanding of how changes in electron precipitation impact ionospheric conductivity and electric potential, and how these processes feed back on magnetospheric particle transport. The Aerospace Corporation will use a two-way coupling of simulation models to compare results with observations from satellites and ground-based radars. This work is part of the broader "The Role of Precipitating Electrons on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling" program. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.