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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 $490,276.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University aims to improve predictions and modeling of the variability of relativistic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt. The project will develop a physics-based model with data-flexible ingestion capability to provide more accurate forecasts of the energetic particle and plasma conditions encountered by spacecraft within Earth's magnetosphere. This will help mitigate...

This federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) supports research into the dynamics of the solar wind, specifically investigating how the kinetic coupling of electrons and ions affects the large-scale behavior of the radially expanding solar wind. The research aims to address the "solar wind isotropy problem" - an observed phenomenon where the temperatures of solar wind electrons and protons become nearly isotropic, which has not been fully explained...

This is a $367,300 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Plasma Processes, LLC, a small business prime contractor, for the development of a multi-use coating to provide abrasion prevention, wear protection, and lunar dust removal capabilities. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III, which allows for the further development and commercialization of previously successful Phase I and II...

This is a $504,609.82 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research related to improving dust and storm forecasts over North Africa and the East Atlantic. The project has two main objectives: 1) Assimilate aerosol backscatter, aerosol optical depth, and other observation data to improve dust and storm forecasts, and 2) Determine the impact of dust-radiation-cloud interactions on storm development,...

Brigham Young University (BYU) has been awarded a $638,543 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a device that can directly measure the electrical charge and mass of atmospheric dust particles on Mars. This device will use an array of image charge detectors and electrostatic slowing to gather critical data on the properties of Martian dust, which is important for understanding its effects on human exploration and in-situ resource utilization. The proposed...

This is a five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf), a non-profit organization, to enhance and computationally implement spatial and time-dependent trapped proton/electron radiation environment models within the Earth's geomagnetic field. The models will also account for the effects of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) on spacecraft. The work will focus on...

This is a $293,684.92 grant awarded by NASA to Brown University to conduct research on the abundance, role, and gas-melt partitioning behavior of volatile species in lunar magmas. The research aims to improve understanding of the evolution of the lunar surface and crust, which is a key objective of NASA's Solar System Workings (SSW) program for the Moon. The grant will fund three main tasks: (1) experiments to determine how other volatile species partition into early CO-rich vs. late H2O-rich...

This $464,803 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was awarded to the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida TECH), a private university and non-profit organization located in Melbourne, Florida. The award supports research to identify the mechanisms and conditions that produce the double power-law spectrum observed in solar energetic particles by spacecraft in interplanetary space. The research aims to improve the understanding of particle acceleration and...

This is a $348,562 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the scaling and structure of the solar wind electron distribution. The project aims to analyze solar wind data to uncover the scaling relations of the "strahl", a narrow anisotropic population of suprathermal electrons that plays a significant role in the global energy balance and potential instabilities in the solar wind plasma. The research will...