This is a $416,922.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, titled "TOOLS FOR ADVANCED DYNAMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM SMALL BODIES," is for research and development related to advancing the understanding of small bodies in the solar system. The grant does not utilize any set-aside designations,...
This is a $518,500.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, to conduct spectrophotometric modeling and analysis of spectrometer and imager data for asteroid 1999 JU3. The objective is to map the asteroid's surface composition, texture, and temperature distribution to support NASA's mission planning and science goals. PSI will leverage its expertise in planetary remote sensing, data analysis, and mission...
This $658,696.00 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "EXPLORING KEY SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION PROCESSES BY DEBIASING THE MAIN ASTEROID BELT", which aims to advance scientific understanding of planetary systems and space exploration. The award does not utilize any set-aside designations,...
This federal contract award to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, is for a two-year research grant of $157,310.93 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant will fund a project to train citizen scientists, educators, and students across the U.S. on using low-cost robotic telescopes to conduct astronomical observations and research. The research will focus on asteroid astrometry and photometry, exoplanet...
This federal contract award is a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The grant, valued at $127,598.00, is to create open source software designed to identify asteroids and other transient objects in image sets, providing astrometric solutions, identification of moving objects, and identification of variable objects. This research aligns with PSI's expertise in...
This is a $595,067.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, to archive all available images obtained with the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey (LONEOS) telescope into the Small Bodies Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS-SBN). The award is for fundamental research and does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science. PSI has previously...
This is a $215,236.79 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the grant is to support NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Discovery Program by cataloging and characterizing NEOs that are difficult to comprehensively survey from the ground. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. PSI will provide services such as data analysis, modeling, software...
This is a $106,988.10 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the U.S. civilian government agency to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for research on the "Dynamical Evolution of Circumbinary Disks and Embedded Planets", with a period of performance ending on September 9, 2024. PSI has extensive experience conducting planetary science, space physics, and astronomy research through federal contract and grant...
This $121,308.00 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "A CITIZEN SCIENTIST APPROACH TO HIGH RESOLUTION GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF INTRACRATER IMPACT MELT DEPOSITS AS AN INPUT TO NUMERICAL MODELS". The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is for the purpose of conducting research related to the...
This is a $471,532.60 grant awarded by NASA to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a project titled "Investigating Solar System Evolution by Identifying and Characterizing Binary Trojan and Hilda Asteroids." The primary goal is to help constrain the dynamical evolution of the solar system by identifying and characterizing binary asteroids in the Jovian Trojan and Hilda asteroid populations. This will...