Project Grant FA23861314076

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $294,330 to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will fund collaborative research on short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging of auroral and airglow emissions. The key objectives are to: Investigate the role of Alfvén waves in generating auroral arcs and forms, as compared to monoenergetic particle influx. Measure metastable helium (He) emissions at 1083 nm to study exospheric density variability over...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $619,648 Project Grant to the University of Colorado under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on space situational awareness in cislunar space. The research aims to extend existing methods for tracking and characterizing the motion of space objects in the lunar environment, including developing new approaches for propagating system uncertainty and describing the relative motion of satellite...

This $188,835 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support research to determine how the breaking of mountain waves affects space weather approximately 100-200 miles above the Earth's surface. The award will fund a collaborative research effort by The Johns Hopkins University to: 1) Characterize the gravity wave characteristics and sources of concentric traveling ionospheric disturbances over the continental U.S. and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...

Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $299,614 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2028) to develop and implement the Wave Distribution Function (WDF) method for analyzing plasma wave data from the Van Allen Probes (RBSP) satellite. The primary deliverable is a new computational analysis code capable of extracting the full range of directional propagation...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $108,999 Project Grant under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC, doing business as Orion Space Solutions, for the project "EVALUATING THE IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION DATA FROM PLANETIQ". The award period is from September 4, 2024 to September 3, 2025. Orion Space Solutions, a small business specializing in smallsat manufacturing, space science, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $505,530 to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) will support research on coupling meteoroid input to thermospheric processes. The key objectives are to: Study meteors through radar analysis and simulations to understand the physics of how meteoroids interact with the upper atmosphere, creating plasma and affecting atmospheric conditions. This includes developing a novel...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $109,432 to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (doing business as Orion Space Solutions) to characterize whistler-mode wave properties in the plasmasphere-plasmatrough transition regions. The research aims to improve understanding of the combined effects of chorus and hiss waves on the Earth's radiation belt environment, which can impact spacecraft and aviation....

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $523,833 will fund research into impacts of atmospheric waves and geomagnetic disturbances on space weather through April 2025. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to increase understanding of the integrated Earth system, the awardee Clemson University will collaborate with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Virginia...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award totaling $172,015 will support collaborative research led by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the role of supra-arcade downflows (SADs) in energy transfer during solar flares. The research aims to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of energy release in the above-the-loop-top (ALT) regions of solar flares, which are critical to comprehending these highly energetic...