The Leland Stanford Junior University
Lunar obligations
$2.4Mas prime
Lunar awards
10as prime
Its subcontractors
3$571K reported
Primes it works for
1$212K in subawards
Who it subcontracts to
THE NEXT STAGE OF X-RAY SPEED-READING: DEVELOPING A SISERO ACTIVE PIXEL MATRIX
ICE SHELL STRUCTURE OF EUROPA AS INFORMED BY THE JUNO MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY EXPERIMENT
ICE SHELL STRUCTURE OF EUROPA AS INFORMED BY THE JUNO MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY EXPERIMENT
Who it works for
- Brown University$212K
AS PART OF OF THE LUNASCOPE SSERVI PROPOSAL, THE CO-I WILL LEAD A PALEOMAGNETIC STUDY OF SEVERAL LUNAR ROCKS TO GARNER ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON (1) THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF LUNAR SAMPLES TO MAGNETIC CONTAMINATION DURING SPACECRAFT RETURN FROM THE MOON, SAMPLE HANDLING, STORAGE, AND ABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON EARTH; (2) THE ORIGIN OF PALEOMAGNETIC RECORDS WITHIN YOUNG (<3 BILLION YEAR OLD) LUNAR IMPACT GLASS-BEARING SAMPLES. BOTH STUDIES AIM TO TEST WHETHER LUNAR PALEOMAGNETIC RECORDS ARE DOMINANTLY SOURCED FROM A GLOBAL LUNAR DYNAMO FIELD OR FROM SECONDARY PROCESSES SUCH AS TRANSIENT IMPACT FIELDS OR MAGNETIC CONTAMINATION RELATED TO THE APOLLO MISSION AND SUSBSEQUENT ANALYSES. THE CO-I WILL SUPERVISE A STANFORD PH.D. STUDENT WHO WILL CONDUCT DAY-TO-DAY RESEARCH TASKS SUCH AS SAMPLE PREPARATION, PALEOMAGNETIC EXPERIMENTS AND DATA ANALYSIS. THE STUDENT, UNDER CO-I GUIDANCE WILL PREPARE 1-2 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS PERTAINING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED WORK BY THE END OF THE GRANT PERIOD. THE CO-I WILL ALSO COLLABORATE WITH THE LUNASCOPE PI AND OTHERS ON OTHER PROJECTS INVOLVING THE LUNAR GEOPHYSICAL HISTORY AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROPOSAL.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80NSSC25K7957 | THE ROSES FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS ARE: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-07-01 → 2028-06-30 | $677K |
| 80NSSC25K7625 | FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS TEXT FOR ALL ROSES TECH EVALS: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-02-01 → 2028-01-31 | $564K |
| 80NSSC25K7671 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS | 2025-04-01 → 2028-03-31 | $349K |
| 80NSSC18K1176 | THIS WORK WILL DEVELOP THE GUIDANCE AND CONTROL ALGORITHMS NECESSARY FOR REAL-TIME MANEUVER PLANNING AND EXECUTION FOR SPACECRAFT FORMATIONS USING LOW-THRUST CONTROL IN LINE WITH THE GOALS OF TA 5.4.2 ONBOARD AUTO NAVIGATION AND MANEUVER AND TA 5.4.5 AUTONOMOUS PRECISION FORMATION FLYING. IT LIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES CRUCIAL FOR FUTURE MISSIONS. FORMATION FLYING IS NEEDED TO ENABLE MISSIONS WHICH REQUIRE LARGE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND THUS PRECLUDE THE USE OF MONOLITHIC PLATFORMS. ELECTRIC PROPULSION WILL INCREASE THE LIFESPAN AND CAPABILITY OF MISSIONS BEYOND LOW EARTH ORBIT BY REDUCING PROPELLANT MASS. AUTONOMY IS ESSENTIAL FOR MISSIONS TO OTHER PLANETS IN WHICH COMMUNICATION TO EARTH IS SLOW AND COSTLY AND IS MADE PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING BY THE LIMITED PROCESSING SPEED OF FLIGHT HARDWARE. TO FUSE THESE TECHNOLOGIES WHILE ENSURING ROBUSTNESS AND EFFICIENCY THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RELATIVE ORBITAL ELEMENTS (ROE) AN EMERGING PARADIGM FOR RELATIVE STATE REPRESENTATION WHICH REPLACES RAPIDLY VARYING AND GEOMETRICALLY OPAQUE STATE VECTORS WITH SLOWLY VARYING PHYSICALLY SIGNIFICANT PARAMETERS. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES LIE ALONG THREE CLOSELY-RELATED BUT INDEPENDENT PATHS. FIRST IS THE DIRECT APPLICATION OF EXISTING ROE THEORY TO THE PROBLEM OF LOW-THRUST FORMATION FLYING. IMPORTANT FOCUSES ARE THE GENERALIZATION OF THE SHORTEST-PATH IMPULSIVE CONTROL SCHEME TO CONTINUOUS LOW-THRUST CONTROL AND DETERMINATION OF DELTA-V LOWER BOUNDS IN THAT CONTEXT. THE ULTIMATE PRODUCT WILL BE EFFICIENT NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST FORMATION CONTROL AROUND A CENTRAL BODY WITH PERTURBATIONS FROM OBLATENESS DRAG SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE THIRD BODIES ETC. SECOND IS EXTENSION OF THE GENERIC ROE FRAMEWORK TO STRONGLY PERTURBED ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS SMALL BODIES AND LIBRATION POINTS. THIS WILL DRAW ON THE FACT THAT THE ROE ARE INTEGRATION CONSTANTS OF THE EQUATIONS OF RELATIVE MOTION. THE ADVANTAGES OF ROE MAY BE OBTAINED IN RELATED PROBLEMS BY CONSIDERING THE INTEGRATION CONSTANTS OF A MINIMALLY-REDUCED DYNAMICS MODEL. APPLICATIONS OF INTEREST INCLUDE THE NEW WORLDS OBSERVER TELESCOPE FORMATION CONCEPT AROUND SUN-EARTH L2 PROXIMITY OPERATIONS AND SERVICING IN CIS-LUNAR SPACE IN SUPPORT OF MANNED LUNAR MISSIONS AND GRAVITY RECOVERY OF ASTEROIDS AND NATURAL SATELLITES. LAST IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-THRUST TESTBED IN STANFORD'S SPACE RENDEZVOUS LABORATORY (SLAB) FOR VALIDATION OF GNC ALGORITHMS THROUGH HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP TESTING. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A THERMAL VACUUM CHAMBER FACILITY FOR OPERATING CUBESAT ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS WILL SUPPORT SLAB S HIGH-FIDELITY VALIDATION ENVIRONMENT. THE COMBINED ELEMENTS OF SLAB S TESTING ENVIRONMENT WILL ENABLE RAPID TESTING OF GNC SUBSYSTEMS ON SPACE-CAPABLE COMPONENTS INCLUDING SENSORS PROCESSORS ACTUATORS AND ASSOCIATED ALGORITHMS. VISITING TECHNOLOGIST EXPERIENCES WILL FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF TESTING PRACTICES AND SHARING OF SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT A BROADER RANGE OF MISSIONS. THIS PROJECT CONSTITUTES AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE OF THE ART IN PRECISION FORMATION FLYING AND ONBOARD GUIDANCE AND CONTROL BY PROVIDING A DIRECT PATH FROM THEORETICAL ADVANCES THROUGH ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND FINALLY TO IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION IN SATELLITE HARDWARE. BY SYSTEMATICALLY INCREASING THE TRL OF GNC ALGORITHMS FOR LOW-THRUST FORMATION FLYING THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ENABLE A HOST OF FUTURE MISSIONS ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF ORBITAL REGIMES. THESE INCLUDE EARTH OBSERVATION AND EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS ON-ORBIT SATELLITE SERVICING SPACE TELESCOPES FOR DIRECT OBSERVATION OF EXOPLANETS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTION GRAVITY RECOVERY AND SURVEYING OF SMALL BODIES AND MANY MORE. | 2018-08-01 → 2022-07-31 | $259K |
| 80NSSC26M0048 | LUMEN (LOW-LIGHT UNIVERSAL MAPPING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS) IS A TECHNOLOGY FOR 3D MAPPING INEXTREME LOW-LIGHT ENVIRONMENTS FOCUSING ON SHADOWED AREAS AT THE SOUTH POLE OF THE MOON. THESTANFORD TEAM WILL FOCUS ON THREE FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH CAPABI | 2026-04-30 → 2028-04-29 | $159K |
| 80NSSC21K1541 | OVER THE PAST DECADE PALEOMAGNETISM AND CRUSTAL MAGNETISM STUDIES HAVE RAPIDLY ADVANCED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LUNAR MAGNETISM. | 2021-10-01 → 2025-03-31 | $121K |
| 80NSSC17K0234 | THE PROPOSED SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE MICROMETEORITE IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF REGOLITH BIOCOMPOSITE (RBC) AN INNOVATIVE IN-SITU MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY THAT USES BIOPOLYMERS TO STABILIZE PLANETARY OR LUNAR REGOLITH. THIS RESEARCH ADDRESSES PRIORITIES DESCRIBED IN TABS 7.1.4.10 APPLICATION OF POLYMERS TO THE SOIL FOR DUST PASSIVATION AND/OR SOIL STABILIZATION (CURRENTLY TRL 3). RBC HAS BEEN PROPOSED AS MATERIAL FOR BUILDING STABLE LANDING PADS PAVEMENTS THAT PREVENT DUST LEVITATION AND RADIATION AND MICROMETEORITE IMPACT SHIELDING FOR HABITATS. IN PRINCIPLE THE USE OF THIS MATERIAL COULD ENABLE FAR-TERM CAPABILITIES BY REDUCING MISSION RELIANCE ON MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE FABRICATED ON EARTH. BY TESTING AND SIMULATING RBC IN A RELEVANT MICROMETEORITE ENVIRONMENT THIS RESEARCH ACHIEVES THE GOAL OF ADVANCING THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL OF RBC FROM TRL 3 TO TRL 5. THIS GOAL WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY FOCUSING ON THREE OBJECTIVES: (1) DEFINING THE RANGE OF MICROMETEORITE VELOCITIES RELEVANT TO PROPOSED EXPLORATION DESTINATIONS (2) CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF RBC THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT (HVI) TESTING AND (3) DEVELOPING A MATERIAL RESPONSE MODEL OF RBC USING HYDRODYNAMIC CODE (HYDROCODE) COMPUTATIONS. BY TESTING AND SIMULATING RBC IN A MICROMETEORITE ENVIRONMENT THIS RESEARCH WILL YIELD CRUCIAL INSIGHTS INTO THE DURABILITY AND LIFE EXPECTANCY OF RBC AS AN ISRU CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED MATERIAL RESPONSE MODEL AND HYDROCODE WILL BE A MICROMETEORITE SIMULATION TOOL THAT WILL ALLOW NASA MISSION DESIGNERS TO PREDICT DAMAGE OF CRITICAL SURFACE SYSTEMS OVER A MISSION S DURATION AND ULTIMATELY MAKE DESIGN DECISIONS THAT REDUCE THE RISK OF A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. THIS PROJECT WILL ADDRESS NASA ROADMAP TA-7 AND TA-12 AND HELP NASA ACHIEVE ITS GOALS OF MAKING SPACE EXPLORATION MORE EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE SAFE AND AFFORDABLE. | 2017-09-15 → ? | $116K |
| 80NSSC25K7523 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-04 → 2027-01-03 | $80K |
| 80NSSC25K7096 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2025-12-31 | $40K |
| 80NSSC24K1338 | SATELLITE-BASED NAVIGATION IS A PROMISING SOLUTION TO PROVIDE LUNAR POSITION NAVIGATION AND TIMING (PNT) SERVICES TO SUPPORT NASA'S PLANS FOR SUSTAINED PRESENCE ON THE MOON. | 2024-08-01 → ? | $0 |