Project Grant 80NSSC24K1198

This $259,661 Project Grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center will fund the development of advanced entry and powered descent guidance technology for precise planetary landing at Purdue University from April 2021 through April 2022. The project aims to develop a highly implementable onboard optimal guidance approach that optimizes complete entry, powered descent, and landing trajectories in real-time to achieve fuel-optimal and precise landing for...

This $137,662 Project Grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the NASA Mission Support Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.009). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, supports research to synthesize frameworks of sustainability for futures on the Moon. The primary grantee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will lead this research effort. MIT will collaborate with two sub-grantees, the Johns Hopkins University Applied...

Lunar Resources, Inc. received a $124,999 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center under the Space Technology program. The grant funded an end-to-end system-level study to design a very large low frequency (5-40 MHz) radio observatory called Farview on the lunar farside using local lunar regolith materials. The study was completed between June 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022. The Space Technology program aims to advance technologies and test...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to advance the development of an electromechanical mass transfer system for space operations. The project aims to create a novel platform that can enable cost-effective movement of resources on the lunar surface and other low-gravity environments without the use of consumable fuels or onboard propulsion systems. The work will focus...

NASA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $105,254 project grant under the Space Technology program to Planet Enterprises on March 26, 2021. The grant supported development of a drilling system and mission architecture utilizing a Perseverance-type rover as a drill rig with minimal science instruments. The proposed system and mission design advances NASA's goals under the Space Technology program to transform future space exploration missions and...

This Project Grant award, with the ID 80NSSC25K7246, was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Space Operations Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.007). The total award amount is $200,000.00 and the performance period runs from September 25, 2024 to December 31, 2029. The purpose of this grant is to study the impact of the anticipated 5-14 second lunar communications delays on team performance and coordination for future Artemis missions. This research will...

This $100,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant will support the development of logistics services and power options for cables and lunar rovers on the moon and other low-gravity environments through May 2023. Specifically, the University of California, Berkeley will work to potentially develop an integrated, cable-less energy and material transfer system that may be lighter, faster, and able to handle more volume for space operations. Such a...

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...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $105,268 Cooperative Agreement under the Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, operating through its Office of Sponsored Programs. The award supports the development of techniques for building and evaluating high-resolution digital elevation models of the lunar surface using orbital imagery data. This work is part of NASA's LunaMAPS project, which aims to enable advanced terrain relative...

General Atomics was awarded a $102,432 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop electromagnetic launch capabilities for resource exploitation on the moon. The one-year grant running from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 will support General Atomics' research efforts to design and test electromagnetic launch systems that can be deployed on the lunar surface to...