This federal contract award to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization, supports fundamental scientific research on early solar system materials. The $318,241.16 grant from NASA's Shared Services Center aims to investigate the formation and evolution of chondrite matrices and chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles, which contain clues about processes in the early solar system. The research...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization. The grant, valued at $359,486.77, is for a research project titled "PRESOLAR STARDUST IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM". The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion on July 31, 2022. As a prime grantee, the Carnegie Institution for...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AE28G, was granted by the Shared Services Center of NASA to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a non-profit research organization, to conduct multi-technique microanalytical studies of presolar grains in meteorites and interplanetary dust particles. The $450,000 award funds research aimed at understanding the formation and evolution of the solar system, including the origin of nucleosynthetic isotopic variations in planetary materials,...
Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science, has been awarded a $416,656 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for scientific research related to developing formation theories for exoplanets with radii between one and three Earth radii, which are among the most common planets detected in other star systems. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C. through February 2025. No set-aside...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AF31G, was granted by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a non-profit research organization. The $147,720.27 grant is for the "Stellar Cartography: A Three-Dimensional View of the Magellanic System Using Spitzer" program, which aims to measure the three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic Clouds using Cepheid variable stars observed by the...
This federal contract award, valued at $180,198.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science. The award supports the extension of the institution's regional modeling for NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) to estimate North American carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes through mid-2018, with a focus on improving uncertainty quantification. The work...
This federal contract award, valued at $150,958.00, was issued by the Bureau of Arms Control Verification and Compliance, a civilian agency, to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with no set-aside designation. Carnegie Institution for Science is a renowned non-profit research organization that frequently receives federal contract and grant awards to conduct fundamental scientific...
This federal contract award to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, is for research related to the exploration of a volatile-rich asteroid. The $387,400 grant from NASA's Shared Services Center will allow the PI to participate in the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently en route to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3. The PI has extensive experience in planetary remote sensing and laboratory analysis of extraterrestrial materials, which...
Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science, has been awarded a $521,855 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct an experimental study of planetary differentiation and core composition. As the prime grantee, Carnegie Institution for Science will leverage its expertise in Earth and planetary science to advance NASA's goals of furthering scientific understanding of planetary formation and...
This federal contract award, valued at $383,430.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific organization. The contract, titled "SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES: COMETS AND PRIMITIVE ASTEROIDS LOOSE MASS MOSTLY IN THE FORM OF LARGE CM-DM SIZED DUST GRAINS. MOST MASS IN THE ZODIACAL CLOUD IS IN THE FORM OF TINY 0.1-MM SIZED GRAINS. WHAT PROCESSES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TURNING ONE INTO THE OTHER?", aims to investigate the...