Purchase Order NNC09VF06P

This is a $373,111.65 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Pinesci Consulting, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for theoretical physics support for NASA's Advanced Energy Conversion (AEC) project, which is investigating advanced materials concepts for heat production to support long-duration space missions where solar power is insufficient. The contract requires the contractor to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $411,350 cooperative agreement to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. Under the award, Dr. Poppe and a graduate student at UC Berkeley will conduct data analysis and numerical simulation investigations of plasma interactions with the Moon and the moons of Mars. The data analysis portion will involve examining particle and fields data from current and...

This is a $282,663 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for a research project related to recent lunar missions. The goal is to place lunar samples from the Soviet Union's Luna missions in the 1970s into the context of newer data from NASA missions like GRAIL, LRO, and M3. The approach involves interpreting remote sensing data to model the lunar crust and mantle, modeling the lunar impact events, and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $446,015.00 grant to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, to conduct research related to the Chang'E 2 Lunar Microwave Radiometer (MRM) mission. The MRM collected the first-ever global maps of the Moon at various microwave frequencies over the full lunar day-night cycle, providing a unique data set not available from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance mission. This grant-funded...

This is a research grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado (CU) to study the interaction between the solar wind plasma and lunar magnetic anomalies (LMAs). The $452,816.37 grant supports a systematic analysis of observations from the ARTEMIS and KAGUYA lunar missions to better understand the kinetic processes governing the solar wind's interaction with LMAs and their connection to lunar surface features like swirls. The research aims to consolidate multi-scale, multi-physics...

This is a $314,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nosanov Consulting LLC for research and development of the PERISCOPE mission concept. PERISCOPE is an instrument and mission to investigate and map lunar skylights from an orbiting spacecraft using photon time-of-flight imaging. The goal is to develop a 3D map of the interior void of these lunar skylights. This is a follow-on to a previous Phase I effort that demonstrated the theoretical...

This is a $78,541.41 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY), operating as RF-SUNY at the University at Albany. The grant, with an ultimate completion date of November 24, 2022, will develop a new forward model for microwave emissions from the lunar surface based on dense media radiative transfer theory. This will enable the simultaneous estimation of several thermal and...

This federal contract award, valued at $107,388.54, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization located in Tucson, Arizona. The contract is focused on advancing the scientific understanding of the formation and early evolution of the Earth's Moon. The research tasks under this grant include: (1) investigating whether the giant impact theory can produce a Moon with the proper mass, angular...

This federal contract award, valued at $559,710.28, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The objective of the award is to characterize the similarities and differences in the regolith properties of lunar swirls, which can help distinguish between the three proposed formation mechanisms. To achieve this, PSI will apply photometric and spectroscopic modeling techniques, including Hapke's model...

This is a $260,361 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The grant is for the project "ADVANCING LUNAR GEOCHEMISTRY AND PROSPECTING WITH THE KPLO GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER", which is related to lunar exploration and data analysis. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. PSI has previously received numerous federal contract and grant awards from NASA and the National...