This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $200,000.00 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support Phase A studies for the PO mission. The key products and services to be delivered include: Refinement of the instrument mechanical design, power, and FPGA boards, as well as participation in interface control document (ICD) development. UCLA will develop an engineering...
This NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Project Grant, awarded under CFDA 43.001 - Science, provides $114,661 in funding to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) from November 5, 2024 to November 4, 2025. The key products and services to be delivered include: Presentations by the principal investigator and two undergraduate student researchers at the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Community Workshop in Paris, France in May 2025, as well as the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $114,671 Cooperative Agreement under the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001) to the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA. The award will fund research to advance the Emerging Worlds program's objectives of investigating the formation and evolution of the solar system, specifically the accretion of bodies after the dissipation of the protoplanetary disk and processes leading to the modern...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $253,344.55 to Blue Marble Space, a non-profit organization, to execute a balanced science program focused on scientific research of the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The award period is from Oct 22, 2024 to Oct 21, 2027. Key activities include participating as a partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, advancing discovery in...
This Project Grant award of $529,230.00, provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) program, supports a nearly-decadal survey of springtime north polar avalanches on Mars using data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The primary activities include producing high-resolution digital terrain models and orthoimages to characterize the avalanche initiation sites and environments, analyzing the topography and...
This federal Project Grant award, with ID 80NSSC25K7356, was provided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) under the Science (CFDA 43.001) program. The $124,734.00 award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, supports a three-year extension of the Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission operations. The awardee, Space Science Institute (SSI), a non-profit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado, will provide scientific research, data analysis, and technical...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides a 3-year extension of the MMS mission operations. The award, with a total funding amount of $110,000.00, was made on January 1, 2025 and has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2025. The grant recipient is The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a public...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding of $326,179, was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) to The Johns Hopkins University. The funding supports a research project titled "Origins of the Medusae Fossae Formation: Stratigraphy and Depositional History" which aims to map the occurrence of layered outcrops of the Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars using image and spectral data, construct digital...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001), supports the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to contribute to the development of the Ion Mass Spectrometer (IMS) sensor for the Plasma Observatory mission. Specifically, UNH will provide the time-of-flight sections, microchannel plate detector assembly, and steady high voltages power supplies for the IMS,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) awarded a $182,151 Project Grant (CFDA 43.001 Science) to The Johns Hopkins University on August 19, 2024. The grant will fund research to study the "EVOLVING VOLCANIC ERUPTION STYLES AS RECORDED IN VALLES MARINERIS" over a 3-year period through August 18, 2027. The grant includes two sub-awards totaling $192,369 awarded to the University of Maryland, College Park and Middlebury College. The...