Purchase Order V460C90620

This is a $117,049 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on April 21, 2019 to conduct research in support of the Juno spacecraft mission to Jupiter. Under the agreement, UC Berkeley will acquire new infrared observations of Jupiter at high spectral and spatial resolution to study the vertical structure and distribution of water clouds, as well as the abundance and vertical profile of gaseous H2O, NH3, and PH3 in Jupiter's troposphere. These...

This federal contract award, with identification number NNX16AK68G, was granted by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Lowell Observatory, a private non-profit research institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The $209,122.13 grant funds a comprehensive program of telescopic observations and spacecraft data analysis to characterize the physical properties of the near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3, which is the target of the Hayabusa2 mission. The research aims to provide insights into...

This is a $135,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on September 1, 2018. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, will investigate the large-scale dynamics and tracer transport in Jupiter's troposphere to explain recent observations of ammonia, arsenic hydride, and germanium hydride from the Juno mission and ground-based telescopes. The goal is to develop a...

This is a $338,120.99 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a study on the role of wave dynamics in the origin and evolution of "hot Jupiters", which are large exoplanets that orbit very close to their host stars. The work will use two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations to understand how...

This $76,905.86 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was made to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division to support research on "warm Jupiters", which are large extrasolar planets with 10-100 day orbital periods. The goal is to discover and catalog more of these planets using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission in order to better understand how planets form and evolve. The award will...

This is a $25,377,896.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) for the Jovian Energetic Particles Investigation (JEPI) Particle Environment Package - HI (PEP-HI) project. The contract has an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2036 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. APL, a not-for-profit university-affiliated...

This is a delivery order under a contract between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). The contract establishes the relationship for JPL to support NASA's Science Mission Directorate in carrying out objectives across Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics, and astrophysics. Under this $971,622...

This is a $375,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant is for research related to the formation and evolution of massive stars and star clusters, particularly in the context of observations from the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The research aims to simulate the formation of individual massive stars and star...

This is a federal contract award from NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on black hole accretion disks. The $104,999.99 training grant aims to improve the treatment of radiating electrons in multi-dimensional computer simulations of these extreme astrophysical systems. The research seeks to address several poorly understood emission properties of low-luminosity accreting black holes, including those in X-ray binary systems, Sagittarius A*, M87, and...

This federal contract award, valued at $212,292.70, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley as the prime contractor under NASA's Explorers Program. The award supports the Japanese LITEBIRD mission, which aims to map polarized fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to search for the signature of gravitational waves from the Big Bang. This is a non-set-aside definitive contract for research and development...