Grant For Research NNX16AL35A
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- This is a $750,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the San Diego State University Foundation for a project titled "FLIGHT TESTING OF ADVANCED POWERED DESCENT GUIDANCE ALGORITHMS". The contract is for research and development work related to advanced powered descent guidance algorithms, which are critical for spacecraft landing and will be flight tested under this effort. The award has no set-aside designation, indicating open competition....
- This federal contract award to San Diego State University Foundation, a non-profit organization, is for the development of methods and algorithms for integrated optimal entry, descent, and landing (EDL) guidance for human Mars missions with pin-point precision. The $498,912.07 cooperative agreement will utilize a successive convex-optimization-based framework to rapidly and reliably optimize the EDL process. This contract is not set aside for any specific business designation. San Diego State...
- This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to San Diego State University Foundation, doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation, a non-profit organization and minority institution associated with San Diego State University. The $241,966.13 research contract aims to develop advanced entry guidance algorithms and fuel-efficient powered descent guidance algorithms for spacecraft during entry, descent, and...
- This federal contract award is a $310,049.40 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center and San Diego State University Foundation, doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation. The award supports the development, maturation, and increased Technology Readiness Levels of advanced aerocapture, entry, powered descent, and planetary ascent guidance algorithms for NASA's human spaceflight missions, including human missions...
- This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K1184, was issued by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego State University Foundation, a non-profit educational institution. The $336,000.00 grant contract is for research on "AUTONOMOUS END-TO-END TRAJECTORY PLANNING AND GUIDANCE FOR CONSTRAINED ENTRY AND PRECISION POWERED DESCENT BY UNIFIED.OPTIMIZATION THEORY". The contract has a completion date of August 14, 2027 and is...
- This federal contract award to Purdue University, a non-profit research university, aims to develop advanced entry and powered descent guidance technology to enable precise planetary landing capabilities for future human Mars missions. The project focuses on three key objectives: (1) creating high-fidelity mission models that incorporate both conventional and direct-force control methods, (2) designing a fast-converging online optimization algorithm using advanced computational techniques, and...
- This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to San Diego State University Foundation, doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation, a non-profit, minority-serving educational institution. The $637,464.16 grant provides funding for flight support activities, sample analysis, data collection, and modeling efforts led by Professors German and Olevsky. A postdoctoral researcher will support both the experimental and...
- This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University on October 1, 2018 for $339,844.59 to develop advanced entry and powered descent guidance technology for precise planetary landing. The goal is to optimize end-to-end entry, descent, and landing (EDL) trajectories in real-time to enable fuel-optimal and precise landing for future human-scale Mars missions. The project aims to advance modeling, optimization, and simulation capabilities...
- NASA awarded a $301,468 cooperative agreement to San Diego State University Foundation (doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation) on August 16, 2019, with completion targeted for August 15, 2026. The research initiative focuses on developing new apparatus to replace or augment the NASA Standard 6001 Test 1, which is currently used to screen materials for space flight applications. The work will be performed in San Diego, California, and no set-aside designation was...
- This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University, a private research university located in Stanford, California. The $264,284.63 grant is for research focused on improving entry guidance systems for future NASA missions that seek to land larger payloads on planetary bodies like Mars. The research aims to develop a unified framework for modeling, trajectory design, and control that explicitly addresses the challenges of...
This federal contract award, NNX16AL35A, was granted to the San Diego State University Research Foundation, a non-profit organization and minority-serving institution, to develop an integrated entry and powered descent guidance algorithm for landing a crew vehicle on Mars with 100-meter precision. This represents a significant improvement over previous Mars landing missions. The $131,355.21 grant is part of NASA's "Integrated Entry and Powered Descent Guidance for a Human Mars Mission" program, which aims to advance the state-of-the-art in Mars landing technologies. The algorithm will be extensively tested at the NASA Johnson Space Center, and the results could inform future Mars exploration efforts. This contract award does not have a set-aside designation.
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| 6 | Funding Only Action | ($1k) | 11/14/18 | |
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| 5 | Funding Only Action | $27.9k | 2/6/18 | |
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| 4 | Other Administrative Action | $24.7k | 8/17/17 |