Purchase Order NNA12AA22P

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center to Skycorp Incorporated, a for-profit manufacturer of spacecraft and space systems. The $100,000.00 contract is to complete the restoration of imagery originally stored on analog data tapes from the Lunar Orbiter program and deliver the imagery to NASA's Planetary Data System. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2017 and did not...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university, to recover, clean, document, and archive ionospheric profiles acquired by the Viking Orbiter radio occultation investigation. The objective is to make these valuable historical data publicly available through the Planetary Data System (PDS). The grant has a ceiling value of $110,844 and a period of performance through March 31, 2020. This effort aligns...

This is a $280,715.40 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a nonprofit research organization. The grant is for a research project to analyze lunar boulder populations around craters of varying sizes and ages using high-resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). The goal is to understand how the distribution of boulders on the lunar surface changes over time as craters...

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...

Wipro Appiro, Inc. was awarded a $138,770 delivery order against the NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop a software tool capable of co-registering imagery from sources including NASA's Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center is funding the work, which will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana over a one-year period concluding in September 2021. The contract has a firm fixed...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $507,633.49 grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to develop the MOONDB data system. MOONDB is a project funded by NASA's Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration and Tools (PDART) program that aims to preserve and make accessible the analytical data from the Apollo lunar sample collection maintained at the Johnson Space Center. The grant will extend the restoration of lunar...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The $58,465.00 contract is for the testing of an LRT-2 camera, which may be used for 3-D imaging lidar on the Lunar Exploration and Science Orbiter (LExSO) program. The work will be performed at DRS facilities in Dallas, Texas and involves functional and...

The federal contract award NNX15AI81G was granted to Arizona State University (ASU) Division, doing business as Orspa, to digitize and provide online access to approximately 31,000 hardcopy planetary data products from the ASU Regional Planetary Information Facility. This three-year, $321,158 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to improve the availability of historical planetary data to the broader research community. ASU will digitize aerial photographs,...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. to design, develop, fabricate, test, and deliver the RESTORE-L VSS spaceflight cameras. The contract has a ceiling value of $9,207,146.79 and a period of performance ending on July 31, 2023. Malin Space Science Systems is a manufacturer of space camera systems that has provided hardware, engineering services, and flight imaging systems to support various NASA missions as both...

This $287,100 grant contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The contract is for research to derive lunar surface slopes and roughness from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data, and to study the influence of these measurements on surface temperature. This work supports NASA's goals of expanding scientific knowledge through new discoveries about the Moon...