This federal contract award, valued at $572,860.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award is for a grant to conduct research on "The Mechanics of Multi Component and Contact Binary NEOs" over a performance period ending on February 13, 2027. The University of Colorado has a history of providing research...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, was awarded a $478,713 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research and simulations on the strength and seismic response of rubble pile asteroids. The research aims to develop theoretical models for how seismic energy is transmitted through granular, rubble pile bodies and how this could enable determining the interior structure of such...
This is a federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for the development of models and tools to characterize and utilize the small body environment for close proximity landing and surface operations. The $275,570.07 contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), supports research to improve understanding of asteroid and comet surfaces, electrostatic charging, and spacecraft interactions....
This is a $460,060.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The award is for research to develop and analyze dynamical models for the evolution of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) over millions of years. The goal is to better understand the temporal statistics of NEO flybys of the Earth. The University of...
This is a $376,539.85 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on asteroid 433 Eros. The objectives are to (1) use color data from the Near Multispectral Imager (MSI) to analyze compositional variations and space weathering on Eros, and (2) use MSI monochrome images to study the surface texture and particle size of Eros features like ponds and bright streaks. The work will involve photometric corrections and...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $427,310 grant for research to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado (CU), to study the "Gravitational Accretion of Small Asteroids". This grant does not have a set-aside designation and runs from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028. CU is a prominent public research university with a robust portfolio of federal contracts and grants across scientific and...
This federal contract award, NNX16AG53G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to The Johns Hopkins University, a private research university, to update the geologic database for the asteroid 433 Eros. The $76,282 grant will fund three tasks: 1) accurately locating all pond deposits and lineaments on Eros using the highest-resolution shape model, 2) producing higher-resolution maps of geologic features, and 3) incorporating the updated data into the publicly...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $309,400.00 training grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. This award, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to enable the acquisition of high-value scientific data from spacecraft operations near active comets. The University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research university, will...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,953.00 grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to develop a new type of soft robotic spacecraft designed to efficiently move on and around rubble pile asteroids. The spacecraft, termed "Area-of-Effect Soft-Bots (AOES)," are intended to utilize adhesion to the asteroid surface to enable mobility and anchoring, allowing for the liberation and collection of...
This is a $575,482.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning. The grant is for a research project titled "A GEOPHYSICAL MODEL OF THE DIDYMOS-DIMORPHOS SYSTEM BASED ON HERA OBSERVATIONS" and has an ultimate completion date of July 2, 2029. The University...
This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, is for research related to the geophysical characteristics of the asteroid Eros. The award, valued at $314,989.45, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has no set-aside designation.
The research aims to analyze data from the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, which orbited and landed on Eros in 2000-2001. The work will focus on fitting localized gravity field models to the spacecraft's descent, landed, and low-flyby trajectory data in order to gain further insights into Eros' internal structure and density distribution. The findings could either validate the asteroid's previously observed homogeneous density or reveal an inhomogeneous density distribution, enhancing scientific understanding of asteroid composition and formation.