Project Grant 80NSSC24K0948

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on July 29, 2025, with a completion date of July 28, 2027. The NIAC Program focuses on early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that could significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions. This Project Grant supports UMD in exploring the overall...

The University of Illinois received a $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program on April 1, 2025. The award will fund a feasibility study for a visionary aerospace concept that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic space science and exploration missions. The project, to be completed by December 31, 2025, aims to advance the concept from Technology Readiness Levels 1-2 towards...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $249,539.76 Project Grant to the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Inc. (ASGSR) on August 2, 2024. The grant supports the 2024 Annual ASGSR Conference, which is part of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) program that funds scientific research and technology development across various space science disciplines. The grant enables ASGSR, a non-profit organization focused on...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) awarded a $200,467 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology on January 13, 2025. The grant, under CFDA 43.001 - Science, supports the institute's execution of a balanced science program aligned with SMD's priorities and guidance from Congress. The university will participate as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiatives, focusing on scientific research in lunar,...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) awarded a $136,732 Project Grant to the SETI Institute on April 10, 2025. The grant funding is to be used to execute a balanced science program that aligns with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, as well as priorities from the NASA administration and Congress. Key objectives of the grant include participating as a partner in NASA's Exploration...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001) provides $304,242.00 to Michigan State University's Toolbox Dialogue Initiative Center (TDIC) to continue developing and implementing programming that builds collaborative capacity within three NASA Drive Science Centers (DSCs). The objective is to support the DSCs, which emphasize collaboration and deep knowledge integration across...

This NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Project Grant award to the Georgia TECH Research Corp, valued at $418,074, supports the execution of a balanced science program based on direction from the National Academies, Administration priorities, and Congress. The awardee will participate as a key partner in NASA's Exploration Initiative, focusing on scientific research of the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The grant will also advance discovery in emerging fields by identifying and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $174,700 Project Grant to Thinkorbital Inc., a small aerospace research and development company based in Boulder, Colorado, through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program (CFDA 43.012, Space Technology). The grant aims to support early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that could potentially enable new human or robotic space science and exploration missions. Specifically, the grant focuses on...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $149,199, issued on May 1, 2024 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under its Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012), supports the "EVALUATION OF LUNAR MAPS AND TERRAN RELATIVE NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS" project. The awardee, Georgia TECH Research Corp, will conduct research and development activities related to lunar mapping and navigation algorithms to enable future NASA exploration missions. The project has a planned...

This $214,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) supports the University of Texas at Austin in executing a balanced science program. The key products and services to be delivered include: Participating as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. Advancing discovery in emerging fields by...