This is a $277,796.43 doctoral research project awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU). The contract is focused on developing a framework and model to evaluate the mortality risk and performance degradation of astronaut crew members due to space radiation and other spaceflight stressors like microgravity. This work aims to address NASA's need for tools to reduce uncertainty in radiation effects on human health and...
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 federal contract award, valued at $333,288.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The contract is a grant for research aimed at addressing the critical challenge of spacecraft state uncertainty due to the unpredictable nature of space dynamics. The research supported under this award seeks to develop methods to mitigate errors that...
This federal contract award, valued at $650,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The contract is a grant for research and has no set-aside designation. The award supports close collaboration to build confidence in modeling the lunar surface, with the goal of extrapolating the modeling work to parameter ranges not attainable through experiments. This research...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $225,000 grant award from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) on September 25, 2024, for research scheduled to conclude by September 30, 2025. The research initiative focuses on understanding and mitigating the impacts of communication delays on team performance and coordination within the context of future NASA Artemis missions. Specifically, the work will examine how 5-14 second lunar communication delays affect team...
The Regents of the University of Colorado has been awarded a $225,000 research grant by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center to conduct research on explosive phenomena relevant to human space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. The grant, awarded August 5, 2025, with completion targeted for August 4, 2026, will be performed at the university's Boulder, Colorado campus. This award represents a non-set-aside competitive contract, reflecting the university's established...
This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) is a $104,999.98 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on planetary magnetic fields. The objective is to utilize reduced magnetohydrodynamic models to simulate dynamo action and gain insights into the interior dynamics of planets with extreme parameter values that are difficult to fully resolve through direct numerical simulations. Key goals...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a grant for research to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. This $919,123.71 contract has a completion date of September 1, 2023 and was awarded on March 1, 2018 without a set-aside designation. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research institution that has received...
This federal contract award, with the ID 80NSSC18K1276, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The primary objective of the "CubeSat: Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE)" project is to better understand the formation and decay of the inner radiation belt. The contract is a $4,733,530.00 grant for research, with an ultimate completion date of August 11,...
This federal contract award, valued at $786,640.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado (CU). The award supports research aimed at "A MORE COMPLETE PICTURE OF GLOBAL PRECIPITATION RATES AND DRIVERS" which is an essential step towards understanding radiation belt dynamics and predicting relativistic electron variations. The contract is a grant for research,...
This is a federal contract award from NASA to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to research innovative passive radiation shielding methodologies for long-term human spaceflight missions. The award, valued at $282,677.23, will evaluate the feasibility of using multilayer materials, water walls, and varied habitat configurations to protect astronauts from galactic cosmic rays during lunar or Martian missions. The goal is to improve shielding efficacy while reducing parasitic mass. This research directly supports NASA's technology roadmap and aims to advance the agency's ability to explore the solar system. The contract was awarded on August 1, 2016 with a completion date of December 31, 2020, and does not have a set-aside designation.