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 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...
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...
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 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 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 $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 $537,854.65 grant award from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation to support an investigation on "VISIONS 2 QUANTIFYING ION OUTFLOW IN THE CUSP." The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), will be responsible for designing, fabricating, and testing electron and ion electrostatic analyzers and auroral camera instrumentation for a sounding rocket mission to be launched from Svalbard, Norway in December...
The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center headquartered in El Segundo, California, received a $695,828 grant award from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) on March 2, 2023, to develop a miniaturized charging mitigation shell (CMS) instrument subsystem for next-generation magnetospheric plasma sensors. The project, with an ultimate completion date of March 1, 2027, addresses a critical technical challenge in space physics research:...
This federal contract award was granted by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The $371,280.86 grant supports a research project to model the effects of the Earth's magnetic cusps on the upper atmosphere, with a focus on understanding the relative contributions of particle precipitation and electric field forcing on the observed density structure. The project will utilize satellite data from missions like CHAMP and STREAK to develop a high-resolution, time-dependent non-linear model. This research supports NASA's Heliophysics Supporting Research program and advances knowledge of ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere coupling. The contract is not a set-aside and does not appear to be part of a larger indefinite delivery vehicle.