This federal contract award is for ASHI INSTRUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS USING GROUND-BASED, EXTANT NASA SPACECRAFT, AND BALLOON-FLIGHT IMAGES, with a ceiling value of $350,496.50. The contract was awarded to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on August 31, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of August 30, 2024. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation. UCSD is a prominent public research university that has a strong track record of delivering specialized...
This is a $1,101,352.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a research project titled "A HOLISTIC SOLAR CYCLE APPROACH TO HELIOSPHERIC EVOLUTION FROM UCSD 3-D RECONSTRUCTIONS USING THOMSON SCATTERING DATA FROM STEREO HI AND SMEI IMAGERY, AND INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION OBSERVATIONS." The grant, which has a period of performance through May 31, 2026, will support UCSD's research on understanding...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $848,527 grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a "Living with a Star" focused science topic to promote interplanetary scintillation (IPS) investigations. UCSD will use its expertise in areas like cognitive science, computer science, and neuroscience to develop time-dependent 3D reconstruction modeling of the heliosphere, which will allow visualization and characterization of stream interaction...
This federal contract award was issued by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct a High Energy X-Ray Timing Experiment for the X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project. The $33,967,822.00 definitive contract is a cost-no-fee arrangement that does not have a set-aside designation. UCSD, doing business as the Office of Contract & Grant Administration, is a major public research university that regularly...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $685,146 grant contract to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) to support modeling efforts that more effectively utilize in-situ spacecraft plasma data to update UCSD's tomographic analysis forecasts. The research will be performed at UCSD's La Jolla, California campus over a two year period ending in October 2022. As the prime contractor, UCSD will utilize its expertise in plasma physics and space weather modeling to...
This federal contract award is for a Phase A concept study for the HESSI (High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) investigation. The contract, valued at $70,534,758.25, was awarded on November 19, 1997 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type and was awarded by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency of the federal government. There is no set-aside...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,161,459.90, was granted by 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 contract supports the development and testing of a hard X-ray (HXR) imager detector assembly based on Medipix/Timepix detectors. These detectors will be used to observe solar flares and investigate particle acceleration, a key process in solar...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0851, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The $467,227.00 contract is for UCSD to assemble and deliver uniformly reduced full spectral cubes and derived maps for all of the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectral mapping observations in the Spitzer Space Telescope archive. This work is not designated as a set-aside contract....
This federal contract award, valued at $344,017.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego's (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The contract aims to develop a novel suite of surface radiation products from the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) data to address science questions related to biogeochemical cycling, mixed-layer dynamics, and circulation. The contract is a research grant with a completion...
This is a $49,470 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to design ASIC-interfacing readout electronics for the STROBE-X mission. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, indicating UCSD was competitively selected based on its technical capabilities. UCSD is a premier public research university known for its cutting-edge scientific research and innovation, particularly in areas like aerospace,...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,110,498.05, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop and test an All-Sky Heliospheric Imager (ASHI) instrument. The ASHI is designed to observe the shapes and time histories of structures in the inner heliosphere, including density and velocity, from deep space. This effort builds upon previous NASA missions that utilized similar Thomson scattering observation techniques, such as the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) and the Heliospheric Imagers (HI) on the STEREO spacecraft. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. UCSD will be the primary contractor, with some design and hardware implementation support from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. This work aligns with NASA's interest in advancing heliospheric imaging capabilities for future space missions.