This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research related to the applicability of distributed mission concepts to Earth science. The $229,206.45 grant is focused on developing a "Tradespace Analysis Tool for Designing Earth Science Distributed Missions". The award has no set-aside designation. Distributed mission concepts, which involve networks of smaller, coordinated...
This federal contract award is a grant for research valued at $660,817 awarded by a U.S. civilian agency to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award is for MIT to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The scope includes participating as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond....
This federal contract award, valued at $149,995.42, was granted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The contract supports MIT's participation in the design, development, and analysis of small laser reflector arrays for lunar and planetary missions. The scope of work includes potential applications of these arrays when deployed on planetary surfaces. The period of performance is 1.0 year beginning in April 2018. This award is not...
This federal contract award is a grant for research provided by a civilian federal agency to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award, valued at $216,387.18, is intended to address the challenge of computational complexity in entry, descent, and landing guidance algorithms by developing efficient methods to compute large diverts at a distance at least twice the height at powered descent start. The award is not associated with a set-aside contract and has an ultimate...
This federal contract award, valued at $397,337.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The contract is for a research project focused on studying river deltas and their sedimentary records, which provide insights into past surface conditions. The contract has no set-aside designation. MIT, a world-class private research university, frequently partners with the U.S. government on cutting-edge scientific...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The $226,523.27 grant is for research related to Distributed Space Missions (DSM), which have mostly been conceptually investigated for Earth science since the late 1990s but have not been systematically integrated into mainstream missions. The interest in...
This is a $1,869,151.78 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on September 1, 2022. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for the TEP-1: Staged Electrospray Pathfinder 1 CubeSat project with a period of performance through July 31, 2026. MIT is a premier private research university known for its cutting-edge research and innovation across...
This federal contract award, valued at $517,902.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on "Bridging the Gap Between X-Ray and UV/Optical Disk Reverberation Mapping in Active Galactic Nuclei." The award is a grant for research, with a performance period ending on June 13, 2026. MIT, a premier private research university, has demonstrated extensive...
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 $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 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 to space weather events, and deliver technology to detect and diagnose anomalies in spacecraft systems. This contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting MIT's extensive capabilities as a leading research university that frequently partners with the federal government on advanced technology development.