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, 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 is a $8,101,433.44 Cooperative Agreement 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 contract is for a project titled "SAFE AVIATION AUTONOMY WITH LEARNING-ENABLED COMPONENTS IN THE LOOP: FROM FORMAL.ASSURANCES TO TRUSTED RECOVERY METHODS" with a completion date of August 31, 2025. The...
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...
This is a federal training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University, for the 2015 Graduate Aeronautics Scholarship program. The contract has a ceiling value of $101,422.00 and a completion date of January 25, 2018. Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, was selected as the prime contractor for this award. The contract does not have a set-aside designation,...
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...
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 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 federal contract award, valued at $580,979.87, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on June 1, 2020. The contract is a grant for research focused on "Measurements of the Growth of Cosmic Structure from Galaxy Cluster Surveys," which is a powerful and promising cosmological probe. The contract has an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2024 and is not designated as a set-aside....
This federal contract award, valued at $649,892.92, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of an innovative computational framework for the simulation of supersonic parachute inflation dynamics. The framework utilizes an Eulerian setting for two-way coupled fluid-structure interaction computations, enabling robust simulations of large structural motions, deformations, and...
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 can handle arbitrary orbit scenarios, incorporating perturbations and uncertainties, and enable autonomous reconfiguration of multi-satellite systems. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Stanford, as the prime contractor, will leverage its Space Rendezvous Laboratory to support this research and development effort focused on advancing guidance, navigation, and control capabilities for future multi-satellite space missions.