Training Grant 80NSSC18K1141
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- This is a $336,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research and development. The grant is not associated with a set-aside contract and will run through August 28, 2028. MIT is a premier private research university known for its cutting-edge work across scientific and technological domains, including space exploration, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and advanced materials. This grant...
- This is a $103,430.00 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on "Traffic Management Paradigms for Autonomous Environments Using Control Theory." The grant was awarded on September 9, 2019 with a completion date of August 31, 2021. MIT is a private research university known for its leadership in science and technology research and has partnered on numerous...
- This federal contract award, valued at $600,000.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The contract is for research and development of "silent, solid-state propulsion for advanced air mobility vehicles", with a performance period ending on August 31, 2025. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. MIT, a premier private research university, has a strong track...
- This is a $553,666 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to contribute to the development of a fully coupled cryosphere-climate model capability in MODELE and related science applications. The grant is not set aside and runs through June 10, 2026. MIT is a premier private research university that specializes in delivering advanced scientific research, technological development, and engineering solutions to...
- This federal contract award, valued at $183,760.22, was issued by NASA to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop autonomous fault identification and handling algorithms for spacecraft. The objective is to enable spacecraft to better characterize their external environment, monitor internal system health, and make autonomous decisions, supporting NASA's goals of deep space exploration. The algorithms will leverage analysis of past mission data to identify telemetry responses...
- This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 1, 2018. The $314,918.66 training grant project is focused on investigating the use of electrospray thrusters for guidance and control of microsatellites, such as CubeSats. The research aims to develop a propulsion system with electrospray thrusters that can provide both primary propulsion and attitude control for a...
- This is a $38,496.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The grant aims to have MIT participate as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. It also requires...
- This federal contract award, valued at $333,679.10, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The contract is for a research grant focused on "Physics-Informed Machine Learning for the Optimization of Hybrid Rocket Motors." This work does not have a set-aside designation. The contract provides funding for MIT to conduct advanced scientific research and technological development in areas such as aerospace...
- This is a $336,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 29, 2025. The grant, which is not set aside for any specific business type, is for the NSTGRO fellowship program, which focuses on graduate student research and development of advanced and innovative space technologies critical for the nation's goals to explore and understand the Earth, our solar system, and the universe. The grant has an...
- This is a $217,167 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on modeling the in-space manufacturing of large, lightweight structures using robotic deformation processing. The grant has an ultimate completion date of September 1, 2025 and is not set aside for any specific business type. MIT, a premier private research university, has a broad range of federal contract and...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded a $307,892.21 training grant contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under contract number 80NSSC18K1141. The contract seeks to apply reinforcement learning and deep neural network technologies to generate and control energy-efficient, low-thrust spacecraft trajectories for deep-space missions. The proposed work will explore an actor-critic based policy approach to trajectory optimization, leveraging transfer learning to generalize control methods across multiple applications. This innovation aims to enable future spacecraft to more easily follow low-thrust trajectories and take advantage of multi-body dynamics, rather than relying on traditional Hohmann transfers. The contract has no set-aside designation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($7k) | 6/13/23 | ||
| P00008 | Funding Only Action | ($7k) | 6/13/23 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 6/24/22 | ||
| P00007 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 6/24/22 | |
| P00006 | Funding Only Action | $18.5k | 2/18/22 |