Project Grant 80NSSC24K0649

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $367,381 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research on space weather in young stellar systems using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory - Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The research team, led by Caltech, will observe approximately 2,000 young stellar systems less than one billion years old with...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced propellant-less propulsion system for small satellites by Field Propulsion Technologies Inc., a small business based in Aurora, Colorado. The project aims to create a prototype propulsion device utilizing a specialized metamaterial based on graphene composite that can generate thrust through unresolved...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $199,999 to develop a novel biomimetic swarm-based remote sensing system for environmental monitoring in hard-to-reach areas. The researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) aim to create a swarm of tiny, lightweight sensors inspired by the natural design of dandelion seeds that can be deployed by...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $446,497 to Rice University to conduct collaborative research on space weather in young stellar systems using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory - Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The research team will make radio observations of approximately 2,000 young stellar systems less than one billion years old using the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $272,800 SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Morningbird Media Corporation to develop and test a prototype propulsion engine that utilizes electromagnetic energy to enable high-speed space travel. The goal is to create a fundamentally new approach to spacecraft propulsion that could lead to orders of magnitude faster space travel compared to current chemical propulsion systems. The key technical objectives are to develop a complex dielectric material and...

This $299,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports the development of free and open-source software and a web interface for extracting high-precision brightness measurements of stars from citizen scientist observations collected with color digital cameras. The project aims to greatly expand the pool of citizen scientists able to contribute to...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $322,886 supports the establishment of a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University focused on networking research for drone swarms in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Over three years, the project will engage eight undergraduate students per summer in research activities under the guidance of experienced mentors. Key areas of focus include dynamic network management, network...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop innovative biomimetic swarm-based remote sensing technology for environmental monitoring in hard-to-reach areas. The project, led by the University of New Mexico, focuses on creating a swarm of lightweight sensors inspired by the natural dispersal mechanism of dandelion seeds. These sensors will utilize wind currents...

This $900,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research towards developing the first swarm of 10,000 electronically controlled, programmable robots no larger than a few hundred microns. Funded through the Engineering (47.041) program, this three-year award to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania aims to significantly advance microrobotics by shrinking robot size tenfold and increasing swarm size ten times over the current state of the art. Key innovations include...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $589,888 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments to better understand wave-wave interaction processes that may control imbalanced solar wind turbulence at ion scales. Specifically, the project will investigate the behavior of two interactions between co-propagating Alfvén waves: a novel interaction driven by Hall physics, and the dispersive...