This federal contract award, valued at $454,999.54, was granted to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate techniques to improve predictions of the density of the upper atmosphere, or thermosphere. The project will build upon a prototype model named EXTEMPLAR. This award is not associated with a set-aside designation. Virginia Tech, a leading public land-grant research university,...
This is a $350,925 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for research to quantify how the ionosphere and thermosphere respond to electromagnetic and kinetic energy inputs from the magnetosphere. The award has a period of performance through July 31, 2026 and is not a set-aside contract. Virginia Tech is a leading public research university and land-grant institution that has a long...
This is a $463,864 grant awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the response of the ionosphere-thermosphere system to the 2024 solar eclipse. The grant, which has a completion date of December 1, 2025, does not have a set-aside designation. Virginia Tech is a leading public land-grant research university with extensive capabilities in areas such as aerospace, data analytics, and...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $70,000 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research titled "Deducing Tidal and Planetary Wave Impacts on the Ionosphere Through Thermospheric and Ionospheric Observations." This grant has no set-aside designation and aims to advance NASA's understanding of space weather and its effects on communications and technology in space through...
This is a $1,096,121.36 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research on the coupling between solar magnetospheric energy and atmospheric chemistry via energetic particle precipitation. The goal is to determine the amount of nitric oxide (NO) produced in the polar night lower thermosphere and the amount of NO that descends across the mesopause, which can impact stratospheric...
This is a $100,000.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for a project titled "EXAMINING HIGHER FREQUENCY ATMOSPHERIC TIDES AT IONOSPHERIC ALTITUDES". The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund research and development activities related to understanding atmospheric tides at the ionospheric level. As a leading public...
This is a $261,499.00 grant awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on determining the connections between driving conditions, magnetosphere-ionosphere-ground properties, and extreme geomagnetic and geoelectric disturbances. The grant has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2026. Virginia Tech is a leading public research university that has a long history of collaborating...
This is a $280,284.80 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for a research project to study the atmospheric coupling between the lower atmosphere and mesosphere. The goal is to improve understanding of the influence of obliquely propagating gravity waves generated over the monsoon region on the high-latitude summer mesosphere, as indicated by polar mesospheric...
This federal contract award is for a Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), a leading public research university. The contract, with a ceiling value of $2,626,557.00, is for observing nitric oxide in the polar night by stellar occultation. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2026. The contract is not set aside for any...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, in the amount of $697,557.00. The grant is for a research project to investigate the role of ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves in energy transfer in the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (SW-M-I-T) system, using three data sets and numerical simulations. The grant does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, known as Virginia Tech, supports research to develop techniques for diagnosing the state of the thermosphere using measurements of emissions from nitric oxide and carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere. The $340,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) utilizes data from various NASA satellite missions, including the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission, to model the thermosphere's mean temperature, cooling rate, and oxygen concentration. The goal is to improve predictions of neutral density variations in the thermosphere, which is relevant to NASA's Heliophysics program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Virginia Tech has extensive expertise in aerospace engineering, data analytics, and climate research that it can apply to this effort.