This federal contract award, valued at $183,760.22, was issued by NASA to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop autonomous fault identification and handling algorithms for spacecraft. The objective is to enable spacecraft to better characterize their external environment, monitor internal system health, and make autonomous decisions, supporting NASA's goals of deep space exploration. The algorithms will leverage analysis of past mission data to identify telemetry responses...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate the development of robotic free flyers and their manipulation capabilities for space applications. The $286,677.04 grant aims to advance the technology readiness level of robotic free flyers, which can be used to perform tasks and increase mission safety in the space environment. The research focus areas include autonomous docking systems,...
This is a $148,133.02 cooperative agreement award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award supports research for NASA's ARMADAS project, which is developing autonomous assembly of digital materials and structures. The research will focus on scaling multi-robot construction, digital assembly workflows, and discrete robotics. MIT, a private research university, has extensive experience...
This is a $499,044.26 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on December 3, 2015, with a period of performance through April 23, 2019. The award, titled "Robust Autonomy for Extreme Space Environments: Hosting R5 at MIT," supports MIT's work in developing perception, planning, and control algorithms for humanoid robotics, building on the team's experience in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. The agreement aims to integrate MIT's...
This is a $399,874.20 cooperative agreement contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on May 1, 2018. The contract is for a "Scheduling Planning Routing Intersatellite Network Tool" with a completion date of April 30, 2022. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. MIT is a world-leading private research university that has extensive experience supporting federal...
This is a $1,869,151.78 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the "TEP-1: STAGED ELECTROSPRAY PATHFINDER 1 CUBESAT" project. The award has no set-aside designation and runs through July 31, 2026. MIT, a world-class private research university, will serve as the prime contractor on this contract, which supports cutting-edge research and development of space...
This is a $139,999.47 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an "Autonomous Multifunctional Sensor Platform". The contract did not utilize a set-aside designation. MIT is a private research university known for cutting-edge research and technology development across scientific and engineering disciplines. Through past federal contracts and grants,...
This $75,000.00 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop robot motion planning algorithms for the NASA Armadas project. The award has no set-aside designation. MIT is a world-class private research university that frequently partners with the U.S. federal government on cutting-edge research and development contracts and grants across scientific and technological fields, including for agencies...
This federal contract award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is for the development of software and hardware to enable precise relative navigation and positioning of small spacecraft in formation. The project aims to mature a smoothing algorithm from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to TRL 6, allowing for more accurate estimation of the relative poses and velocities between multiple spacecraft using available sensor data. This includes incorporating a long-range depth...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1301, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a world-class private research university. The $268,000.00 grant is for a research project to address the computational complexity of entry, descent, and landing guidance algorithms. The goal is to develop efficient methods to compute large diverts at a distance at least twice...
This is a $287,000.00 contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop and test autonomous on-orbit assembly and servicing systems using the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) testbed. The contract supports NASA's goals in the area of robotics and autonomous systems, with the objective of enabling spacecraft assembly and servicing without human crews. MIT will focus on developing robust autonomous docking algorithms and exploring autonomous assembly and servicing scenarios using the SPHERES platform. This contract is not associated with a set-aside program.