Project Grant 057905799

Space Balloon Technologies Corp (doing business as Spaceloon) received a $1.25 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for SBIR Phase II funding, awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The company will develop and validate a market-ready mesospheric sub-orbital ballooning platform capable of providing long-duration (exceeding one hour) satellite and space payload testing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will provide $353,236 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The funding will support a research project to identify and study merging galaxy clusters as "dark matter laboratories" to better understand the nature of dark matter interactions. The project will involve...

This three-year, four hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty-eight dollar Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research at Cornell University to combine measurements from cosmic microwave background experiments and galaxy clustering surveys to probe the nature of gravity, dark matter, and neutrinos in the universe. Key products will include the highest signal-to-noise pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements to date...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,999 to Orbital Services Corporation LLC will enable the development of novel capabilities for autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations with uncooperative space objects. The key products of this SBIR Phase I project include: Synthesized neural Lyapunov functions to be integrated into control systems, enabling safe inspection and capture of uncooperative, uncontrolled,...

This $250,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to enable a sustainable space industry that minimizes environmental impact. The key objectives are to: Investigate how existing space resources like lunar regolith and metallic debris can be used to manufacture products for use in space, reducing reliance on Earth-sourced materials. This involves studying...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences supports Dr. Aaron Stemo's research project "MPS-ASCEND: Spearheading Inclusive Mentoring and Multimessenger Training with a Census of Potential Counterpart Galaxies" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The $300,000 award will fund creation of a census of potential galaxy counterparts to gravitational wave detections from mergers of massive black...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Genalpha Nuclear Technologies LLC received a $1,060,833 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, effective August 18, 2025, with a completion date of August 17, 2027. Under this award, the company will develop Structured Plasma Cell Thermionic Energy Conversion (SPACE-TEC), a groundbreaking nuclear fuel technology utilizing metal foam fuels. SPACE-TEC will directly convert nuclear heat into...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $238,314 to the University Enterprises, Inc. doing business as Sacramento State Sponsored Research for collaborative research titled "CROSSING THE CHASM: FROM COMPACT OBJECT MERGERS TO COSMIC FIREWORKS." The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in astrophysics, such as the formation of heavy elements through compact object mergers and their...

The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $226,347 Project Grant to the University of Idaho under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support the development of a computational code to model binary neutron star mergers through combining fluid dynamics and numerical relativity codes. Researchers will integrate the MANGA moving-mesh hydrodynamics code with the SENR/NRPY+ efficient numerical...