This is a $525,400.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant supports research to constrain the surface properties of the near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 using images from the Optical Navigation Camera (ONC) on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The research aims to create a detailed shape model, photometric model, and color maps of the asteroid to support...
This $658,696.00 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "EXPLORING KEY SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION PROCESSES BY DEBIASING THE MAIN ASTEROID BELT", which aims to advance scientific understanding of planetary systems and space exploration. The award does not utilize any set-aside designations,...
This is a $320,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The award is for research related to the goals of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved. As a non-set-aside award, the contract reflects PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science research. PSI has a...
This is a grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The $390,378 grant is for the "Asteroids in the Archives - Compilation and Calibration of Serendipitous Archival Asteroid Photometry" project. The objective is to create a catalog of calibrated astrometry, photometry, and point spread function (PSF) measurements for small solar system objects detected in public archival image...
This $121,308.00 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "A CITIZEN SCIENTIST APPROACH TO HIGH RESOLUTION GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF INTRACRATER IMPACT MELT DEPOSITS AS AN INPUT TO NUMERICAL MODELS". The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is for the purpose of conducting research related to the...
This is a $455,055 grant award to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research on products of explosive eruptions and pyroclastic deposits, which provide important information about the thermal history and volatile content of planetary bodies. PSI will perform data analysis, modeling, and other research services to support NASA's planetary...
This is a $425,245.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "INVESTIGATING CENTAUR SURFACE COLORS: CONNECTING SURFACE TRANSFORMATION TO THERMAL AND DYNAMICAL HISTORY" and has a performance period ending on August 14, 2026. PSI, which has an extensive portfolio of federal contract and grant awards,...
This is a $215,236.79 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the grant is to support NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Discovery Program by cataloging and characterizing NEOs that are difficult to comprehensively survey from the ground. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. PSI will provide services such as data analysis, modeling, software...
This is a $266,665.00 grant awarded to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant, titled "Structure and Dynamics of Jupiter's Duskside Magnetosphere", is for research related to the exploration of planets, asteroids, comets, and other bodies in our solar system. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting PSI's competitiveness in planetary...
This federal contract award is a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The grant, valued at $127,598.00, is to create open source software designed to identify asteroids and other transient objects in image sets, providing astrometric solutions, identification of moving objects, and identification of variable objects. This research aligns with PSI's expertise in...