Training Grant 80NSSC18K1176
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- This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University (doing business as Stanford University), a private research university located in Stanford, California. The $158,775.60 contract is for the development of an autonomous impulsive maneuver planner for relative orbit reconfiguration of spacecraft in formation flying missions. The work aims to create computationally efficient algorithms that...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $240,982.24 grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University, for research related to the coordination and control of multiple spacecraft for future NASA missions. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. Stanford University, a private non-profit research university, will provide research and development services to NASA, focusing on methods for navigating, controlling, and...
- This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AP67H, was issued by the Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on robust motion planning algorithms for autonomous spacecraft. The $288,409.20 award aims to develop real-time, risk-aware motion planning techniques that can navigate dynamic, cluttered environments while providing safety guarantees. The research builds on Stanford's work on sampling-based algorithms and chance...
- This is a contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and implement an angles-only relative navigation system for nanosatellites or CubeSats. The objective is to create an efficient formulation of the angles-only navigation problem consistent with the performance constraints of commercially available, space-capable hardware, develop the software implementation, and integrate it with a...
- This federal contract award, valued at $252,000.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, a prestigious private research institution. The contract is a grant for research focused on advancing robotics and autonomy capabilities to enable more rich scientific understanding for planetary missions. This aligns with NASA's objectives to push the boundaries of space exploration through...
- This federal grant award to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University, aims to develop new theoretical and algorithmic frameworks that enable mobile robots to safely and efficiently navigate unknown environments. The $303,813.98 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will support research into using machine learning techniques to intelligently reason about unobserved environments beyond a...
- This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University, a private research university located in Stanford, California. The $264,284.63 grant is for research focused on improving entry guidance systems for future NASA missions that seek to land larger payloads on planetary bodies like Mars. The research aims to develop a unified framework for modeling, trajectory design, and control that explicitly addresses the challenges of...
- This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) aims to develop adhesion-based grasping and manipulation capabilities for assistive free-flyers in space environments. The $625,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center will fund research into mechanisms for grasping and manipulating payloads, supplies, and tools inside and outside spacecraft using controllable adhesives inspired by gecko feet. The...
- The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) was awarded a $1,763,822 cooperative agreement (Contract #80NSSC18M0058) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, develop, and validate the Autonomous Nanosatellite Swarming Subsystem (ANS). ANS is an integrated miniaturized dynamics, guidance, navigation, and control unit that enables multiple nanosatellites to act together as a single large spacecraft through precision relative navigation and low-thrust...
- This is a $253,317.32 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University. The award is for research and development of collaborative robotic manipulation techniques to enable space exploration applications such as on-orbit construction and human-robot collaboration. The work aims to develop decentralized algorithms and optimization strategies for teams of robots to...
This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) supports the development of guidance and control algorithms for real-time maneuver planning and execution of spacecraft formations using low-thrust control. The research aims to fuse the technologies of formation flying, electric propulsion, and autonomy to enable future space missions across a range of orbital regimes, including Earth observation, satellite servicing, space telescopes, and gravitational wave detection. The $298,576.98 award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is a training grant, with the work to be performed at Stanford's facilities in California. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. This effort contributes to NASA's Technology Area 5.4.2 (Onboard Auto Navigation and Maneuver) and 5.4.5 (Autonomous Precision Formation Flying), advancing the state-of-the-art in precision formation flying and onboard guidance and control for low-thrust systems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($8k) | 12/1/22 | ||
| P00006 | Funding Only Action | ($8k) | 12/1/22 | |
| Not listed | $20.0k | 5/6/22 | ||
| P00005 | Funding Only Action | $20.0k | 5/6/22 | |
| P00004 | Funding Only Action | $15.6k | 7/24/21 |