The roses funding opportunity goals are: execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded South Dakota State University a cooperative agreement valued at $615,873 on June 18, 2026, under the Office of STEM Engagement program (CFDA 43.008), with performance concluding June 17, 2028.

The award funds balanced science program execution focused on lunar and Mars exploration research, advancing NASA's objective to build the next generation STEM workforce by broadening pathways to STEM fields and increasing the capability and size of the nation's future STEM workforce.

Work is performed in Brookings, South Dakota. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology serves as a sub-recipient under sub-award 80NSSC26M0030-3TB183 (awarded August 24, 2026), developing and evaluating tensor-based temporal factorization methods to improve forecasting, fusion, and gap-filling of soil moisture observations derived from multi-scale, multi-sensor satellite platforms. This effort leverages temporal tensor factorization and t-product-based multilinear algebra to exploit spatio-temporal structure in satellite time series while handling missing observations, irregular revisit intervals, and cross-modality inconsistencies.

The roses funding opportunity goals are: execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration priorities and direction from congress. Participate