This is a grant awarded by NASA to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) on January 1, 2017 with a ceiling value of $2,308,074.00. The grant is for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment, a balloon-based search for dark matter using a lithium drifted silicon tracking telescope to detect X-rays and particles emitted when antimatter produced by dark matter annihilation and decay is stopped in the instrument. The grant does not have a...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $431,144.20 grant provides funding for UC Berkeley to 1) refurbish the recently returned GRIPS high-altitude balloon payload, 2) evaluate replacing the current Germanium Electron Detectors (GEDs) with newer models, and 3) complete validation of GRIPS's X-ray imaging capabilities using...
This is a grant award to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of focal-plane detector and multiplexed detector technology, as well as mission simulations, for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization missions. The award, valued at $203,315.66, has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2023. The award was not set aside for any...
This is a $487,259 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa) to support the University's tasks on the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment, a search for dark matter using low energy antiprotons and antideuterons. The primary focus of the work is the calibration and testing of silicon drift detector modules, instrument simulation, and support of the flight program and scientific analysis. This award...
This is a $524,834 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant is for a research project investigating particle acceleration in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. The goal is to better understand the formation of power-law energy spectra in these settings. The award has a period of performance from March 1, 2022 through February 28,...
This is a $680,256.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of the grant is to quantify the electromagnetic energy and electron inputs into the dayside/cusp region, understand how these inputs depend on solar wind variability, and examine their relation to outflowing ionospheric ions. This research will be conducted at UC Berkeley, which has...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $413,075 award will fund research on "Properties of the Suprathermal Ion Population in the Inner Heliosphere During Quiet Times" over a period ending on September 30, 2025. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. As a public research university, UC Berkeley has received numerous federal...
This is a $51,000.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on "CONSTRAINING THE MOST EXTREME MASS LOSS EVENTS FROM MASSIVE STARS WITH FERMI AND THE VLA". The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will run until July 25, 2026. UC Berkeley, a public research university and 1862 land grant college, has a long history of supporting advanced scientific research for federal agencies across...
The U.S. government has awarded a $449,852 grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for a research project titled "CHARACTERIZING LUNAR DAYSIDE PHOTOEMISSION AND ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES". The grant was awarded on March 15, 2025 with an ultimate completion date of March 14, 2028. The research is being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and will be conducted at UC Berkeley's facilities in Albany, California. This grant supports UC...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $74,997 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, to maintain the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as part of the Interplanetary Network. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support research activities from April 11, 2022 through April 10, 2025. UC Berkeley is a public research university that has received over $825,000 in prime...