This federal contract award, valued at $436,838.00, was granted to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for research and development related to "the use of receiver, clock, and atmospheric ties to advance space geodesy". This work supports NASA's broader initiatives in space science and exploration. The award is not designated as a set-aside...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K1732, was made by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL), a division of the University of Texas System. The $448,195.52 grant is for research related to multiple measurement techniques to recover a baseline, utilizing a low-gain receive system located near a permanent GNSS antenna and applying differential GNSS to...
This federal contract award, NNX17AG97G, was granted to the University of Texas at Austin by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of a new analysis framework to define, characterize, and estimate inter-system ties at the mm-level accuracy for a network of geodetic instruments at the McDonald Geodetic Observatory (MGO). The $447,085.48 grant is intended to enable the integration of data from multiple geodetic techniques, including satellite laser ranging...
This is a federal contract award to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL), a division of the University of Texas System, for GNSS signal analysis services. The $7,795,640.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center, a Defense agency, with a period of performance through September 13, 2026. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. UT Austin ARL is a sophisticated research organization specializing in...
This federal contract award is for a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal monitoring demonstration project awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL). The $2,234,543.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a performance period ending on September 27, 2021. UT Austin ARL, a specialized research division within the University of Texas System, has a strong track record of providing advanced...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,710,286.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) under a Cooperative Agreement. The goal of this project is to develop the technology required to provide absolute navigation and timing services in lunar orbit via optical-based tracking of surface features. UT Austin, a prominent public research university, will perform this work through its expertise in aerospace engineering, sensor technology, and...
This federal contract award, valued at $3,568,871.00, was granted to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on January 27, 2020. The contract supports the ICESat-2 mission, which was successfully launched in September 2018 and is using state-of-the-art laser altimeter technology to study the Earth's surfaces. UT Austin ARL, a division of the University of Texas System, is a leading research...
This federal contract award is for a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal monitoring demonstration project awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL). The $597,500 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded on September 18, 2018, has an ultimate completion date of March 30, 2022. The award is not designated as a set-aside contract. UT Austin ARL, a sophisticated research division within the...
This federal contract award, NNX16AT04G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) to support the ICESAT-2 LASER REFERENCE SYSTEM CHROMATIC ABERRATION MITIGATION program. The $149,221.86 grant will fund research using an interlaced batch least squares method to estimate and address chromatic aberration in the ICESAT-2 laser reference system, in order to produce an improved attitude...
This federal contract award, valued at $264,708.82, was issued by the Shared Services Center (8000|8000|80NSSC-A) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to conduct research on rapidly designing spacecraft trajectories around small bodies such as asteroids and comets. The research aims to develop fast and accurate gravity field modeling techniques, coupled with a comprehensive catalogue of stable orbits and trajectories around small bodies, to enable more rapid and thorough...