This federal contract award to Purdue University, a not-for-profit research university and 1862 Land Grant College, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $133,448.12 award supports research to implement precursor and neutral loss scanning techniques in a single quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. This instrumentation development effort aims to enable small, power-efficient, and capable organic molecule analysis capabilities for...
This federal contract award, NNX16AM40H, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a research institution in West Lafayette, Indiana. The $290,744.44 award will fund a research investigation into low-thrust propulsion technologies, such as electric propulsion and solar sailing, which could enable smaller and more efficient spacecraft for space science and exploration missions. The research aims to develop improved trajectory design methods that...
This federal contract award to Purdue University, valued at $1,776,314.52, funds the finalization and development of the Next Generation PALMS (PALMS NG) instrument for deployment on the ER-2 aircraft. The PALMS NG instrument is designed to meet the space, mass, and power requirements outlined in the original proposal. Purdue's Principal Investigator Daniel Cziczo will lead the team's work from design to deployment and data analysis. The award has no set-aside designation. The funding agency...
This federal contract award, NNX16AC10A, was issued by NASA to Purdue University to expand the dataset provided under a prior NASA award, NNX11AI59A, for the Subsonic Fixed Wing Project. The key objectives are to acquire additional detailed measurements on Purdue's three-stage axial research compressor to better understand and model tip leakage flows, including the leakage through stator knife seals, as well as the impact of rotor tip clearance on the leakage flow trajectory. This is a...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AU76G, was granted by the Shared Services Center on behalf of NASA to Purdue University. The contract, valued at $539,891.01, supports a research project investigating the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets at parsec and kiloparsec scales. The research aims to better understand the connections between these jet structures and gamma-ray activity, as well as test unified AGN models and the proposed fast spine-slow sheath structure of TeV BL...
This federal contract award, NNX15AJ89G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a prime contractor, to conduct research on textured boiling surfaces for phase-change heat transfer systems in spaceflight applications. The $130,199.33 contract is not set aside and is focused on advancing the technology of textured boiling surfaces and acquiring additional low-power data through a payload that was previously flown in 2014. Purdue University, as...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC19K0960, was granted to Purdue University to conduct collaborative research under the direction of Principal Investigator Thompson. The work will involve chemical and microstructural analyses by co-investigators at NASA Johnson Space Center, organic analyses, and laboratory ion and laser irradiation experiments. Optical reflectance spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy measurements will also be performed by collaborators. This...
This federal contract award is a grant for $564,463.00 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, an institution of higher education and research located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The primary objective of the contract is to explore the impact environment of the early solar system and investigate whether impacts are an important chondrule forming process. The contract has a completion date of March 31, 2025 and was awarded on April 1, 2020. No...
This federal contract award, valued at $412,064.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a non-profit educational institution. The award supports research on "Relativistic Jets: Acceleration, Dissipation and Interactions with Ambient Gas", focusing on the study of collimated, relativistic outflows originating from compact objects like black holes and neutron stars. The research aims to develop a self-consistent model connecting...
This federal contract award is a $798,090 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a not-for-profit educational institution located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The work will leverage data from three International Space Station sensor platforms (GEDI, DESIS, and ECOSTRESS), several space-based remote sensing platforms, and in-situ acoustic and survey data to support NASA's research objectives. The award does not have a...
This federal contract award, NNX16AJ25G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a prime contractor. The $655,528.98 award funds research to modify the operation of quadrupole mass filters and ion traps, enabling new scanning modes that will improve signal-to-noise ratios and facilitate the detection, identification, and structural analysis of trace organics on planetary bodies. The work aims to develop small, lightweight mass spectrometers with simplified electronics that can operate at higher pressures, improving sample utilization for wet and dry ambient ionization. The proposed techniques, including Hadamard multiplexed detection and secular frequency scans, will allow tandem mass spectrometry analysis not previously possible in single analyzer instruments, beneficial for planetary exploration. This award is not associated with a set-aside program.