Purchase Order INPP631007N006

This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The NISAR mission will use radar to study changes in polar ice sheets and sea ice, measure Earth's surface deformation, and characterize global ecosystems. This grant, valued at $345,775.36, supports MIT's role as the Applications Lead for the NISAR Science Definition Team. The contract...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $497,007.70 grant for research to Exoterra Resource LLC, a solar electric propulsion company based in Littleton, Colorado. The NIMPH project aims to develop a micro in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) system to produce liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellant for sample return missions, which are significantly more expensive than traditional exploration missions due to the increased delta-V requirements. By...

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Asrc Federal System Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation. The objective is to research and study the feasibility of using off-the-shelf pontoons to create an inflatable raft that can support a water-landed space capsule, providing a stable platform for crew access and egress, while protecting the capsule during...

This contract award for $4,530,915.00 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute, to develop a Cubesat Imaging Radar for Earth Science Instrument Development and Demonstration (CIRES-IDD). The CIRES-IDD instrument will leverage SRI's existing radar hardware and software to create a low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Interferometric SAR (InSAR) system for Cubesats. This three-year effort...

This is a federal contract award from NASA Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland. The contract is for the NASA-ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission (NI-SAR), with the objective of understanding the response of ice sheets to climate change, the dynamics of carbon storage and uptake, and the likelihood of natural disasters. Cornell Technical Services LLC...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $624,030 grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop the SABIA-MAR 1 satellite. This satellite is being built by the Argentina Space Agency (CONAE) to observe ocean color from a sun-synchronous orbit. It will use onboard cameras to measure top-of-atmosphere reflectance in multiple spectral bands to generate standard ocean color data products. The award does not have a...

The California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract valued at approximately $812.2 million for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. This contract, awarded on October 1, 2018, with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2028, represents a major collaborative space mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). NISAR is designed to observe Earth's changing surface using...

This is a $345,760.51 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to continue support for the definition of science goals, requirements, measurement requirements, product definition, and science algorithm development, as well as data distribution and calibration/validation planning for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The work will be done in collaboration with other key NASA missions focused...

Sri International has been awarded a $492,700 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to conduct a three-year research program analyzing observational data and modeling of mesospheric nightglow emissions from the Icon and Mighty instruments. The work will involve data analysis and modeling in the first year, with additional analysis and modeling in subsequent years. There is no set-aside designation associated with this award. Sri International will...

This federal contract award, valued at $481,098.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) to study the variability of the Leeuwin Current and the southern Indian Ocean. The project aims to understand the physical processes controlling the intraseasonal to interannual variability of the Leeuwin Current and its influence on the southern Indian Ocean, using satellite data, in-situ observations, and reanalysis...