Grant For Research NNX17AH38G
- Not listed
- This is a $350,216 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a prominent nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant, titled "CHASING THE ECLIPSE II: AUGMENTED AIRBORNE ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS IN 2024 WITH NASA'S WB-57S," is for scientific research related to the 2024 solar eclipse. SwRI, which has extensive experience in federal contract and grant work, will provide...
- This is a $1,282,077.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct research for the "CHASING THE ECLIPSE II: AUGMENTED AIRBORNE ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS IN 2024 AND 2026 WITH NASA S WB-57S" project. The grant, which is not set aside, has an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2028. SwRI is an independent, non-profit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The institute has a...
- This is a $99,793.19 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a non-profit consortium of over 115 universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant will fund two unique ground-based experiments during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 to further the understanding of coronal magnetism and thermal structure, and to test novel instrumentation. The first...
- This is a $159,659.60 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research organization in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for a research project titled "Determining Temperature Distributions in Solar Flares with RHESSI and EVE", which aims to improve the understanding of the physical mechanisms driving particle acceleration and plasma heating in solar flares. The award is not associated with a...
- This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0798, was granted on June 1, 2021 to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The $118,171.81 grant is for a research project to study the solar corona during the 2024 total solar eclipse, utilizing citizen scientists for distributed data acquisition. The award is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) research efforts and does not have a set-aside...
- This is a $238,922 grant award to the University of Hawaii (UH) from the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, for a research project to observe the 2024 total solar eclipse. The goal is to use NASA's WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft to acquire superior quality spectral data and imaging observations of the solar corona over the 270-1100 nanometer wavelength range. This will yield insights into coronal plasma composition, temperatures, and coronal mass ejections. The award...
- This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization, valued at $149,713.65. The grant is for a research program to better understand the initiation, development, and evolution of transient coronal dimming regions and their relationship to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The program will use data from various solar observation satellites and instruments, including the Solar Dynamics...
- This is a $179,420 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization, for a project titled "UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN OF PREFERENTIAL ION ENHANCEMENT IN SOLAR FLARES". The grant is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate programs, supporting research on solar system origins, planetary evolution, and space...
- This is a grant awarded by a civilian federal agency to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a prominent nonprofit research and development organization, to support the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) Next-Generation Experiment in 2024. The grant, valued at $620,564, will fund research to characterize the physical processes that shape the heating, structure, and evolution of the solar corona during a total solar eclipse. The project aims to determine the connectivity of...
- This is a $98,656.00 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a non-profit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is for a project to measure the infrared spectrum of the solar corona during the 2017 eclipse using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR). The project aims to identify spectral lines suitable for measuring the coronal...
This is a $200,314.60 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to observe the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 using NASA's WB-57 aircraft. The grant, titled "Chasing the 2017 Eclipse: Interdisciplinary Airborne Science from NASA's WB-57", will allow SwRI to utilize the DYNAMITE visible and near-infrared telescopes onboard the WB-57 at high altitude to make rare observations of the sun and planets during the eclipse. This is not a set-aside contract, and there are no major subcontractors mentioned. SwRI is a prominent federal contractor with expertise across multiple disciplines, including space science, and has received numerous grants from NASA and other agencies for research projects.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | ($462) | 8/29/22 | ||
| 6 | Funding Only Action | ($462) | 8/29/22 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 8/5/20 | ||
| 5 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 8/5/20 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 7/14/19 |