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Northern Arizona University was awarded a $7.67 million cooperative agreement by NASA on January 4, 2016, for the PLANETS (Planetary Learning That Advances the Nexus of Engineering, Technology, and Science) project. This innovative collaborative initiative was developed through a partnership involving Northern Arizona University's Center for Science Teaching and Learning, the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, the Museum of Science Boston, and out-of-school time (OST) networks. The project aims...

This is a $583,262.14 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to study the magnetic fields of exoplanets and their potential role in making those planets habitable. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. The University of Massachusetts Lowell, through its Office of Research Administration-Lowell division, is the prime recipient of this grant. The grant aims to improve understanding of exoplanet...

This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AP35G, was granted by the Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The $222,991.61 grant will fund a study on the effects of magnetism on the dynamics and structure of close-in extrasolar giant planets using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic model. This work aims to address how planetary magnetic fields affect the dynamics of these tidally-locked planets and the position and amplitude of...

Computational Physics, Inc. was awarded a $178,220.18 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop the Mesospheric Atmospheric Gravity Wave and Temperature Sensor (MAGWATS). The goal of this instrument is to directly image mesospheric gravity waves and temperatures at an altitude of approximately 90 km to study dynamic forcing and thermal coupling in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. This work is aligned with NASA's heliophysics research...

This is a $142,268 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) for research on exoplanetary magnetic fields and star-planet interactions involving Hot Jupiter exoplanets. The research aims to measure exoplanetary magnetic field strengths, understand their impact on planetary formation and evolution, and determine the effect of the planet on the host star's angular momentum. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. ASU, as...

Planet Labs PBC has been awarded a firm fixed price BPA call contract valued at $6.17 million by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to provide Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellite data products under the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program. The contract has a period of performance from January 21, 2024 through May 20, 2024, with all work to be conducted by Planet Labs PBC in San Francisco, California. Through this award issued...

The Regents of the University of Colorado, operating through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a definitive cost-no-fee contract valued at $51.5M by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to serve as the prime contractor for the Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission. Under this award, the University of Colorado is responsible for overall mission management, science operations, data processing, and analysis of observations from the GOLD instrument, which...

This is a $333,226 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago on January 1, 2017 for research on "Gigayear Instabilities in Planetary Systems". The research will focus on studying the long-term dynamical stability of exoplanetary systems, including investigating the potential for instability on billion-year timescales that could impact planetary formation and evolution. The project will use numerical simulations and analytical...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) was awarded a $10.13 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order on March 4, 2024, for the Cross-Scale Investigation of Earth's Magnetotail and Aurora (CINEMA) Mission Support under the ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004 contract vehicle. The award, issued by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, supports the CINEMA mission, which is a multi-satellite investigation designed to study fundamental processes in Earth's magnetosphere, particularly...

The Planetary Science Institute received a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at $3.23M from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, awarded November 13, 2019, with completion scheduled for April 30, 2026. The contract requires PSI to capture instrument requirements in a preliminary instrument functional requirements document, initiate long-lead materials procurement, and conduct a heritage requirements review. This effort supports the development of the Heimdall spaceflight imaging...