The University of Missouri System, doing business as Missouri University of Science & Technology, was awarded a $136,939.09 training grant contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on developing passively-coded miniature embedded wideband microwave sensors to monitor materials and structures for signs of fatigue and degradation. This research, which is part of an...
This federal contract award, valued at $197,014.67, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Missouri System, doing business as Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T). The award is a cooperative agreement to support the development and demonstration of a multi-mode propulsion thruster integrated into a 3U CubeSat. The project will leverage Missouri S&T's expertise in spacecraft propulsion, microsatellite...
This federal contract award, valued at $247,442.87, was granted by NASA to the University of Missouri System, doing business as the Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T). The contract supports research on the complex thermal environments and particulate-laden flows experienced during planetary reentry, which pose challenges for both human and robotic spaceflight. Missouri S&T, as a leading technological research university, will leverage its expertise in areas...
This federal contract award to the University of Missouri System, doing business as Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T), aims to develop a framework for lander navigation using consider filtering and square-root filtering concepts. The $145,000.00 cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will result in a computationally feasible and numerically robust navigation method to determine a best estimated state and uncertainty...
This $159,804.27 research grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a research organization within the Texas A&M University System. The grant supports work by Principal Investigator Dr. Selva's lab, including former and current graduate students, to develop computational tools for optimizing the design and architecting of distributed satellite systems. The research focuses...
This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Missouri System, through its Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) campus. The $3,410,000.00 award is for the "MISSOURI SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM - OPPORTUNITIES IN NASA STEM: FY2025-FY2028" program, which will run from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029. This award was not set aside for any specific business type. Missouri S&T is a...
NASA awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred fifty-three thousand dollars to Scott Andrew Merritt, doing business as Scott A Merritt, for subject matter expert consultant services on reliability analysis for the LISA Laser Transmitter System. The contract has no set-aside designation and calls for performance of the services through March 31, 2025 in Manassas, Virginia. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will utilize Dr. Merritt's expertise to support the Laser...
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. was awarded a $520,542.57 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the source and cause of high-energy electrons observed in the Earth's magnetosheath by the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission. The research will utilize MMS observational data as well as global and local magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with test particle analysis to better understand the dominant mechanisms leading to the leakage...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Muon Space Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company, for $179,927.89. The contract is for Muon Space to perform a satellite architecture integration study to identify and select optimal Space Development Agency (SDA)-compatible Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) suitable for integration with ESPA-class satellites, expanding the reach of the Proliferated Warfighter Satellite...
This federal contract award to the University of Missouri System, doing business as Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T), is for the development of a robust navigation framework using novel multitarget tracking techniques. The goal is to enable autonomous navigation, hazard avoidance, and rendezvous, docking, and landing capabilities for a variety of NASA space vehicles and planetary landing missions. The award, identified as NNX16AM93H, has a ceiling value of...