Purchase Order FA860119PA075

This is a $483,185.00 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded to Essential Space, Inc. (a veteran-owned small business) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center under the General Services Administration (GSA) Professional Services Schedule (PSS). The contract is for the delivery of space systems engineering virtual training courses to government and industry. Essential Space, Inc. has previously provided similar engineering training services to...

This is a $198,115.51 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) to develop a spacecraft design curriculum and CubeSat mission for hands-on undergraduate education. The project, called "Space HAUC", will provide students across different majors the opportunity to gain practical experience in spacecraft and instrument design, development, integration, testing, and operations over...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 1, 2018. The $314,918.66 training grant project is focused on investigating the use of electrospray thrusters for guidance and control of microsatellites, such as CubeSats. The research aims to develop a propulsion system with electrospray thrusters that can provide both primary propulsion and attitude control for a...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Maclean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC. The contract is valued at $122,708 and has a completion date of December 9, 2016. The purpose of the contract is to expand on the MREST (Modular Robotic Servicing of Spacecraft) interface specification to develop a standard that can be used to address issues related to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $300,000.00 grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to create internet-accessible self-study and teaching resources for mission analysis within gravitational multi-body environments, such as cislunar space. This effort aims to close the gap between classical orbital mechanics taught in undergraduate courses and the more complex dynamics required for missions to the Moon, particularly in support of the Artemis...

The Department of the Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $743,232.00 firm-fixed-price delivery order to Essential Space, Inc., a veteran-owned small business, for five years of virtual space systems engineering training services to be performed in El Segundo, California. This delivery order is against Essential Space's existing Multiple Award Schedule contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service. Essential Space, Inc. has...

This is a $286,546.76 training grant awarded by NASA to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research and develop a model for understanding and mitigating the charging behavior of next-generation complex and active spacecraft. The research aims to address challenges associated with spacecraft charging, which can limit the capabilities of high-power solar electric propulsion systems. The project will leverage data from the International Space Station and the Defense Satellite...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $35,900 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Instar Engineering And Consulting, Inc., a for-profit organization, to provide live/in-person instructor-led training on "Space Mission Structures: From Concept to Launch" for civil servants. The training will be performed at the Langley Research Center. This contract was sole-sourced to Instar Engineering And Consulting, Inc., which has previously served as a subcontractor on contracts...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I action awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The $121,549.00 firm fixed-price contract requires M4 Engineering to investigate the viability of creating a multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) architecture for analyzing spacecraft system models using commercial off-the-shelf software. The project aims to develop a generic and scalable...

NASA awarded a $15.8M Cooperative Agreement to the University of Toledo on January 4, 2016, for the Mission Earth project, which systematically integrates NASA assets and the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program into K-12 school curricula across the United States. The initiative targets high-need school districts in the Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest regions to address documented gaps in STEM workforce development and public scientific...