Regents of the University of California
Who it subcontracts to
DURING THE INITIAL PHASE (3 MONTHS), WE ENVISION A SHORT DESIGN PHASE FOR THE PURPOSES OF COLLECTING ALL RELEVANT DESIGN DOCUMENTS AND REVIEWING THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THE COMPONENTS FROM DIFFERENT MISSIONS. IF POSSIBLE, WE ENVISION WORKING WITH INTERFACES TO THE LANDER IN ORDER TO CREATE SIMPLE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL INTERFACES. BASED UPON A CLEARER WORKING DEFINITION, WE WOULD REVIEW THE REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN DETAILS BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH BUILDING GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT TO EMULATE THE LANDER, POSSIBLY MODIFYING THE INTERFACE IN THE DATA CONTROLLER BOARD (DCB) OR THE TIME DOMAIN SAMPLER (TDS), OR IMPLEMENTING ADAPTER PLATES FOR THE ANTENNAS. BUILD TO PRINT OF SOME BOARDS WOULD BEGIN IN THIS PHASE, AS LONG AS THEY WERE INTERNAL TO THE MEP OR ANTENNAS. THIS INCLUDES THE TIME DOMAIN SAMPLER (TDS), THE DFB FPGA DAUGHTERBOARD, AND SOME WORK ON THE MAG ELECTRONICS. TO SUPPORT THE ABOVE, THE LUSEE TEAM AT UMN WILL: 1. SUPPORT WEEKLY TELECOMS WITH UCB; 2. SUPPORT MONTHLY TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS 533M & 533Q TO UCB; 3. BEGIN STUDIES AND SIMULATIONS TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL INPUTS FOR INSTRUMENT PARTS, AND OPERATIONAL PLANS ENSURING INSTRUMENTS MEET SCIENCE GOALS; 4. IDENTIFY PARTS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE LNPS AND TDS FLIGHT BOARDS; 5. BEGIN ASSEMBLING THE LNPS AND/OR TDS; 6. BEGIN DOCUMENTING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR LUSEE; 7. SUPPORT DESIGN REVIEW OF THE LUSEE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE, AND AS IT RELATES TO THE LNPS AND TDS INTERFACES IN PARTICULAR.
DURING THE INITIAL PHASE (3 MONTHS), WE ENVISION A SHORT DESIGN PHASE FOR THE PURPOSES OF COLLECTING ALL RELEVANT DESIGN DOCUMENTS AND REVIEWING THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THE COMPONENTS FROM DIFFERENT MISSIONS. IF POSSIBLE, WE ENVISION WORKING WITH INTERFACES TO THE LANDER IN ORDER TO CREATE SIMPLE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL INTERFACES. BASED UPON A CLEARER WORKING DEFINITION, WE WOULD REVIEW THE REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN DETAILS BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH BUILDING GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT TO EMULATE THE LANDER, POSSIBLY MODIFYING THE INTERFACE IN THE DATA CONTROLLER BOARD (DCB) OR THE TIME DOMAIN SAMPLER (TDS), OR IMPLEMENTING ADAPTER PLATES FOR THE ANTENNAS. BUILD TO PRINT OF SOME BOARDS WOULD BEGIN IN THIS PHASE, AS LONG AS THEY WERE INTERNAL TO THE MEP OR ANTENNAS. THIS INCLUDES THE TIME DOMAIN SAMPLER (TDS), THE DFB FPGA DAUGHTERBOARD, AND SOME WORK ON THE MAG ELECTRONICS. TO SUPPORT THE ABOVE, THE LUSEE TEAM AT LASP WILL: 1. SUPPORT WEEKLY TELECOMS WITH UCB; 2. SUPPORT MONTHLY TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS 533M & 533Q TO UCB; 3. BEGIN STUDIES AND SIMULATIONS TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL INPUTS FOR INSTRUMENT PARTS, AND OPERATIONAL PLANS ENSURING INSTRUMENTS MEET SCIENCE GOALS; 4. IDENTIFY PARTS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE DFB FLIGHT BOARD; 5. BEGIN ASSEMBLING THE DFB DAUGHTERBOARD; 6. CREATE AND RELEASE LUSEE DAUGHTERBOARD BUILD DOCUMENTATION FOR USE AS PART OF LASP"S INTERNAL PROCESSES; 7. SUPPORT DESIGN REVIEW OF THE LUSEE SYSTEM, AS IT RELATES TO THE DFB INTERFACES. 8. SETUP SPP RACKS, TAKE LUSEE DFB OUT OF STORAGE, AND RE-TEST CONFIGURATION TO ENSURE ALL GSE, CABLES, DFB, AND ROUTINES WORK AS EXPECTED.
- University of Utah$410K
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH TO THIS EFFORT STEMS FROM OUR ABILITY TO COAT INDIUM ON A MICROCHANNEL PATTERNED ALUMINUM SURFACE AND OPTIMIZE A MICROCHANNEL SHAPE BY PERFORMING MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION TO MAXIMIZE PLUME ICE CAPTURE AND RECOVER ORGANICS FROM THE MICROCHANNEL SURFACE. UTAH NANOFAB IS CLASS 100/1000/10,000 CLEANROOM THAT PROVIDES WORLDCLASS EQUIPMENT FOR LITHOGRAPHY, DEPOSITION, ETCHING, PACKAGING, MICRO-3D PRINTING, LASER PATTERNING, AND MORE. DR. KIM`S LAB HAS FULL ACCESS OF THE NANOFAB. HIS LAB HAS STRONG BACKGROUND IN MEMS AND EXPERIENCE IN MICROFABRICATION AND MEMS PROCESSES TO FORM INDIUM AND OTHER METAL LAYERS BY PERFORMING A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT WITH SSL. IN DETAIL, CURRENT RECTANGULAR CHANNEL OF PICO WILL BE USED FOR DEVELOPING THE UNIFORM INDIUM COATING ON THE MICROCHANNEL WALLS BY UTILIZING AN E-BEAM EVAPORATOR. INDIUM PROVIDES A COMPLIANT IMPACT SURFACE THAT CAN EFFECTIVELY CAPTURE PARTICLES WHILE REDUCING SHOCK AND THERMAL DESTRUCTION OF ORGANIC PROJECTILES. INDIUM IS SUITABLE FOR SPACEFLIGHT INSTRUMENT DEPLOYMENT AND PERMITS FABRICATION IN A VARIETY OF CONFIGURATIONS AND CAN BE COATED ONTO OTHER MATERIALS. HOWEVER, INDIUM HAS A RELATIVELY LOW MELTING POINT (156.6°C) AND A HIGH VAPOR PRESSURE COMPARED TO OTHER METALS. DUE TO ITS HIGH VAPOR PRESSURE, INDIUM CAN EASILY CONTAMINATE EVAPORATOR OR SPUTTERING CHAMBER AND SUBSEQUENT FILMS, EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT THE TARGET MATERIAL. THIS CAN LEAD TO ISSUES WITH FILM PURITY AND CONSISTENCY. THUS, INDIUM DEPOSITION SHOULD BE USED FOR A DEDICATED FILM DEPOSITION MACHINE. UTAH NANOFAB HAS A DEDICATED EVAPORATOR FOR DEPOSITING HIGH VAPOR PRESSURE AND LOW MELTING TEMPERATURE MATERIALS.
DR. JULIANA VIEVERING WILL SERVE AS PROJECT SCIEN7ST FOR THE FOXSI-5 MISSION. DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE INVES7GA7ON, SHE WILL COORDINATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FLARE ALERT SYSTEM OP7MIZED FOR THE FOXSI-5 SOUNDING ROCKET FLARE CAMPAIGN. THE ALERT SYSTEM WILL BE DESIGNED TO PROCESS REAL7ME SOLAR IRRADIANCE AND IMAGING DATA AND PROVIDE INDICA7ON OF WHEN A FLARE IS STAR7NG AND A MEASURE OF THE CONFIDENCE THAT A LARGE FLARE WILL BE OBSERVED DURING THE FOXSI-5 OBSERVA7ON WINDOW (IF A LAUNCH WERE TO BE INI7ATED). THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS OP7MIZED SYSTEM AND PROCESSES FOR THE FLARE CAMPAIGN IS OF GREAT SCIEN7FIC IMPORTANCE AS IT WILL INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF OBSERVING A LARGE SOLAR FLARE WITH FOXSI-5. SHE WILL ALSO ASSIST IN ARRANGING FOR COORDINATED OBSERVA7ONS WITH OTHER OBSERVATORIES. DR. VIEVERING WILL PAR7CIPATE IN FOUR THREEDAY CAMPAIGNS AT THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE TO COORDINATE FLARE MONITORING EFFORTS ON SITE. DR. VIEVERING WILL ADDI7ONALLY CONTRIBUTE TO PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF DATA OBTAINED DURING THE FLARE CAMPAIGN IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE INVES7GA7ON. SHE WILL PRESENT RESULTS FROM THE FLARE CAMPAIGN AT A SCIEN7FIC CONFERENCE.
Who it works for
THE UCB TEAM, CONSISTING OF DR. PHAN (UCB PI) AND A GRADUATE STUDENT, WILL PERFORM ANALYSES OF PLASMA AND FIELD DATA FROM THE WIND, THEMIS/ARTEMIS, CLUSTER, AND MMS SPACECRAFT. THE BERKELEY GRADUATE STUDENT WILL IDENTIFY RECONNECTING AND NON-RECONNECTING CURRENT SHEETS IN THE SOLAR WIND AND IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH. DR. PHAN WILL LEAD THE STUDY OF THE OCCURRENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA HEATING IN CURRENT SHEETS, WITH OR WITHOUT RECONNECTION. DR. PHAN AND THE GRADUATE STUDENT WILL COMPARE THE OBSERVATIONAL FINDINGS WITH SIMULATION RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND THE CO-INVESTIGATORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE.
"THE SPACE SCIENCES LABORATORY (SSL) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (UCB) WILL SUPPORT THE PROPOSED EFFORT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER (CU), NASA AMES, AND THE NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY (NRAO) THE UCB/SSL WILL PROVIDE SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT AND EXPERTISE ON LF RADIO ANTENNA DESIGN AND RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY, AS WELL AS EXPERTISE ON INSTRUMENT AND SPACECRAFT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, INSTRUMENT ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING REQUIREMENTS, AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INSTRUMENT MANAGEMENT."
AT UCB, DR. LIUZZO WILL PERFORM AIKEF HYBRID PLASMA MODELING OF EUROPA’S ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT FOR TIMES WHEN THE MOON IS LOCATED NEAR THE CENTER OF JUPITER’S MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA SHEET. CO-I LIUZZO WILL ALSO LEAD THE INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS FOR THIS SCENARIO. ADDITIONALLY, LUCAS WILL BE THE LEAD AUTHOR OF THREE OF THE EXPECTED PUBLICATIONS, TO BE SUBMITTED DURING THE SECOND AND THIRD YEARS OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT. A UCB UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WILL WORK WITH CO-I LIUZZO ON VISUALIZING THE MODEL RESULTS.
HVPS PHASE C/D
CONSORTIUM FOR ULTRACOLD ATOMS IN SPACE
CONSTRAINING THE ORIGIN AND TIMESCALE OF LUNAR MG-SUITE MAGMATISM
ANALYZING THE MMS SATELLITE DATA TO IDENTIFY THE KINETIC STRUCTURES OF THE SHOCKED PLASMA IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH, INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF THESE STRUCTURES DURING THEIR DOWNSTREAM PROPAGATION, AND STUDY THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH THE MAGNETOPAUSE. DR. WEIJIE SUN HAS SERVED IN MMS’S SCIENTIST- IN-THE-LOOP (SITL) PROGRAM SINCE 2018. HE WILL ALSO WORK WITH THE PI, DR. YUXI CHEN TO COMPARE THE SATELLITE DATA WITH THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION RESULTS AND PARTICIPATE IN THE PERIODIC TEAM MEETING TO DISCUSS THE OVERALL PROGRESS OF THIS PROJECT.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80MSFC23CA015 | THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND DELIVER AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE LUNAR SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETICS EXPERIMENT AT NIGHT. | 2022-08-17 → 2028-03-31 | $18M |
| 80NSSC17K0032 | THE CUBESAT RADIO INTERFEROMETRY EXPERIMENT (CURIE) IS A TWO-ELEMENT RADIO INTERFEROMETER BASED ON PROVEN AND DEVELOPED DIGITAL RADIO RECEIVERS AND DESIGNED TO FIT WITHIN A CUBESAT PLATFORM. CURIE WILL LAUNCH AS A 6U CUBESAT AND THEN SEPARATE INTO TWO 3U CUBESATS ONCE IN ORBIT. CURIE MEASURES RADIO WAVES FROM 0.1-19MHZ WHICH MUST BE MEASURED FROM SPACE AS THOSE FREQUENCIES FALL BELOW THE CUTOFF IMPOSED BY EARTH S IONOSPHERE. THE PRINCIPAL SCIENCE OBJECTIVE FOR CURIE IS TO USE RADIO INTERFEROMETRY TO STUDY RADIO BURST EMISSIONS FROM SOLAR ERUPTIVE EVENTS SUCH AS FLARES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS (CMES) IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE PROVIDING OBSERVATIONS IMPORTANT FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HELIOSPHERIC SPACE WEATHER ENVIRONMENT. THE INFLUENCE OF SPACE WEATHER CAN BE FELT AT EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS AS RADIATION LEVELS INCREASE AND LEAD TO AURORAL ACTIVITY AND GEOMAGNETIC EFFECTS. CURIE WILL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION AND SIZE OF RADIO BURST SOURCE REGIONS AND THEN TO TRACK THEIR MOVEMENT OUTWARD FROM THE SUN. IN ADDITION TO THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE CURIE WILL MEASURE THE GRADIENTS OF THE LOCAL IONOSPHERIC DENSITY AND ELECTRON TEMPERATURE ON THE SPATIAL SCALE OF A FEW KILOMETERS AS WELL AS CREATE AN IMPROVED MAP OF THE RADIO SKY AT THESE UNEXPLORED FREQUENCIES. A SPACE BASED RADIO INTERFEROMETRY OBSERVATORY HAS LONG BEEN ENVISIONED IN ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH OR THE MOON OR ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON. BEYOND ITS IMPORTANT SCIENCE OBJECTIVES CURIE WILL PROVE THAT THE CONCEPT OF A DEDICATED SPACE-BASED INTERFEROMETER CAN BE REALIZED BY USING RELATIVELY CHEAP CUBESATS. CURIE WILL THEREFORE NOT ONLY PROVIDE NEW IMPORTANT SCIENCE RESULTS BUT ALSO SERVE AS A PATHFINDER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SPACE-BASED RADIO OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES FOR HELIO- AND ASTRO-PHYSICS. | 2017-07-05 → 2025-07-30 | $4.1M |
| 80MSFC20C0025 | THE CONTRACTOR SHALL LEAD THE LUNAR SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETICS EXPERIMENT MISSION INVESTIGATION AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND DELIVERY OF INSTRUMENT, GENERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF DOCUMENTS. | 2019-12-18 → 2027-03-30 | $3.9M |
| 80NSSC25M7045 | 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. | 2024-11-13 → 2026-11-12 | $1.7M |
| 80NSSC25K7272 | 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. | 2025-02-01 → 2028-01-31 | $1.5M |
| 80NSSC25K7829 | THE RESEARCH OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP PIEZOELECTRIC-BASED POWER CONVERSION FOR SMALL POWER SYSTEMS ON THE LUNAR SURFACE TO ENABLE THE FOLLOWING: (1) HIGH POWER DENSITY AND HIGH SPECIFIC GRAVITY TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE THE SIZE WEIGHT AND COST OF THESE SYSTEMS (2) HIGH EFFICIENCY TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE OVERALL ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND ENABLE LONGER-DURATION FARTHER-REACHING MISSIONS (3) HARSH ENVIRONMENT READINESS TO MAINTAIN PROPER OPERATION WITH HIGH RELIABILITY FOR LONG TIME PERIODS DESPITE CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES VIBRATION AND RADIATION. | 2025-05-19 → 2028-05-18 | $750K |
| 2548067 | REU SITE: ADVANCING SPACE SCIENCES -THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH HANDS-ON RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN A VARIETY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES. STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE UNITED STATES WILL BE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN INTENSIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS, WORKING CLOSELY WITH FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS WHO OFFER MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE. STUDENTS WILL GAIN VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC SKILLS, PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS, AND CAREER EXPLORATION, STRENGTHENING THE WORKFORCE OF OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. THIS REU SITE FOCUSES ON SPACE WEATHER, LUNAR SCIENCE AND PLASMA PHYSICS AND PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO DESIGN, DEVELOP AND TEST INSTRUMENTATION, CONDUCT RESEARCH, AND EXPAND THEIR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK. THE STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP SKILLS IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, DATA ANALYSIS, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION, AND GRADUATE SCHOOL PREPARATION THROUGH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND COLLABORATION WITHIN A COHORT OF RESEARCHERS. THESE EXPERIENCES WILL PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE WORKFORCE AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE TOOLS TO ADDRESS CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES OF THE BURGEONING NEW-SPACE INDUSTRIES THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | 2026-09-01 → 2029-08-31 | $679K |
| 80NSSC19K0804 | THE NATURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH AND ROCKS HAS BEEN A MAJOR TOPIC OF RESEARCH SINCE THE RETURN OF THE APOLLO SAMPLES. FOR EXAMPLE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LUNAR REGOLITH MIXING IS STILL EVOLVING AS RECENT STUDIES OF SMALL IMPACTS ON THE LUNAR SURFACE OBSERVED IN IMAGES FROM THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER CAMERA SUGGEST A HIGHER TURNOVER RATE OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH THAN HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED. OUR GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE LONG TERM MILLION YEARS HISTORY OF THE LUNAR SURFACE UTILIZING RADIONUCLIDES (10BE 26AL 36CL 41CA AND 53MN) PRODUCED BY COSMIC RAYS BOTH GALACTIC (GCR) AND SOLAR (SCR). WITH HALF-LIVES RANGING FROM 0.1 TO 3.7 MYR THESE COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES PROVIDE INFORMATION ON LUNAR SURFACE PROCESSES ON A TIMESCALE OF 10^5 TO 10^7 YR. ESPECIALLY THE SCR PRODUCED NUCLIDES 26AL AND 53MN IN SHALLOW DEPTHS OF SOILS AND ROCKS SHOW STEEPLY DECLINING DEPTH PROFILES; THIS MEANS THAT THESE NUCLIDES ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO DETERMINE THE HISTORY OF THE LUNAR SURFACE. THE MEASUREMENT OF MULTIPLE NUCLIDES WITH DIFFERENT HALFLIVES AND DIFFERENT PRODUCTION MECHANISMS PROVIDES AN EXCELLENT FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS THE MIXING RATE OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH. RECENT UPGRADES IN THE ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY (AMS) FACILITY AT PURDUE AND IMPROVEMENTS IN SAMPLE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES AT BERKELEY NOW ALLOW MEASUREMENTS OF ALL PROPOSED RADIONUCLIDES WITH HIGHER PRECISION AND IN SMALLER SAMPLES THAN BEFORE. WE FOCUS ON DETAILED MEASUREMENTS OF COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES IN UNOPENED SINGLE DRIVE TUBE 69001. OUR MEASUREMENTS WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE HISTORY OF THE LUNAR SURFACE CORE ON A MILLION-YEAR TIMESCALE AS WELL AS INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE MAN-MADE DISTURBANCES OF THE CORE THAT MAY HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE DRILLING PROCESS. IN ADDITION WE WILL MEASURE PERMANENTLY SHADOWED SOILS 72320 AND 76240 SINCE PREVIOUS COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE STUDIES SHOW THAT PERMANENTLY SHADOWED SOILS WERE NOT EFFECTIVELY SHIELDED FROM SCR. OUR STUDIES ARE NOT ONLY FOR OUR OWN INTEREST OF LUNAR SURFACE HISTORIES SUCH AS REGOLITH MIXING AND COSMIC RAY EXPOSURE HISTORIES BUT ALSO PROVIDE HISTORICAL INFORMATION TO OTHER INVESTIGATORS WHO WANT TO STUDY LUNAR SURFACE MATERIALS AND PHENOMENA. FURTHERMORE OUR STUDIES WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR FUTURE SAMPLING OF THE LUNAR SURFACE. WE ARE WILLING TO COLLABORATE IN ANY CONSORTIA STUDIES OF 69001 AND OTHER SAMPLES. | 2019-04-26 → 2024-04-09 | $615K |
| 80NSSC20K0236 | AS A SPECIALIST IN ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY I ADDRESS SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS ON PLANETARY SURFACE PROCESSES USING GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES ON ROCK MINERAL AND GLASS SAMPLES FROM EARTH APOLLO LUNAR SAMPLES AND MARTIAN METEORITES IN MY MASS SPECTROMETRY LABORATORIES AT BERKELEY. IN THIS PROPOSAL I ADDRESS IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR MARS 2020 SAMPLE COLLECTION TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF FUTURE LABORATORY ANALYSES TO ADDRESS PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE QUESTIONS: (I) QUANTIFYING TIMING OF SPECIFIC IMPACT FEATURES AND SURFACES ON MARS USING RADIOISOTOPE GEOCHRONOLOGY (WITH A FOCUS ON 40AR/39AR U-PB AND (U-TH)/HE SYSTEMATICS) ON BRECCIAS IMPACT GLASS AND MINERALS (II) QUANTIFYING SURFACE EXPOSURE AGES AND COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES PRODUCTION RATES (III) PLACING QUANTITATIVE CONSTRAINTS ON THE COSMIC RAY FLUENCE AND ASSOCIATED RADIATION DAMAGE EXPERIENCED BY NEAR-SURFACE SAMPLES (IV) QUANTIFYING SEDIMENT PROVENANCE GEOCHRONOLOGY AND EXHUMATION/EROSION RATES USING THERMOCHRONOLOGY (V) QUANTIFYING NEAR-SURFACE TEMPERATURE HISTORIES USING OPEN SYSTEM BEHAVIOR OF NOBLE GAS NUCLIDES (BOTH RADIOGENIC AND COSMOGENIC) (VI) CONSTRAINING PAST ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITIONS FROM GASSES TRAPPED IN SOLIDS. | 2020-01-03 → 2024-11-04 | $504K |
| 80NSSC21K0447 | FOR LONG-DURATION HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT (ORBITAL LUNAR MARS) THERE IS A NEED TO MONITOR ASTRONAUT HEALTH IN SITU AND WHEN NECESSARY TO MAKE APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES OF HEALTH AND/OR ONSET OF DISEASE. EARTH-BASED CLINICAL | 2021-03-01 → 2023-08-01 | $481K |
| 80NSSC20K0691 | SCIENCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: RECENT OBSERVATIONS FROM THEMIS PROBES 1 AND 2 (ALSO KNOWN AS THEMIS B AND C AND COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS ARTEMIS) HAVE BEEN INTERPRETED AS INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF HEAVY IONS OF IONOSPHERIC ORIGIN MASS. | 2020-04-01 → 2025-03-31 | $475K |
| 80NSSC25K7327 | 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. | 2025-01-06 → 2028-01-05 | $458K |
| 80NSSC25K7241 | 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 | 2024-10-28 → 2027-10-27 | $411K |
| 80NSSC25K7821 | 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. | 2025-06-01 → 2028-05-31 | $382K |
| 80NSSC17K0769 | RESOLVING THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF PLANETARY BODIES IS OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF PLANETS MOONS AND SMALL BODIES. AMONG SEVERAL TOOLS AVAILABLE TO STUDY THE DEEP INTERIOR ARE NATURAL SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) SOUNDINGS WHICH HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED TO STUDY THE INTERIORS OF THE MOON EARTH AND THE GALILEAN SATELLITES. EM METHODS UTILIZE THE PRINCIPLE OF INDUCTION IN WHICH THE RESPONSE OF THE CONDUCTING INTERIOR TO INCIDENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS ENABLES AN ESTIMATE OF THE INTERNAL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY. BY DETERMINING THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AS A FUNCTION OF DEPTH EM SOUNDINGS CAN RESOLVE OR CONSTRAIN THE CORE SIZE UPPER AND LOWER MANTLE STRUCTURE COMPOSITION AND THERMAL STATE AND EVOLUTION AMONG OTHER PROPERTIES OF INTEREST. DESPITE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN CONSTRAINING THE CORE AND MANTLE STRUCTURE USING EM SOUNDINGS AT THE MOON THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR WIND PLASMA WERE UNDERESTIMATED AND SIMPLIFIED ASSUMPTIONS WERE APPLIED FOR THE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION. MOREOVER EM SOUNDING HAS NOT BEEN STUDIED AT OTHER TERRESTRIAL AIRLESS BODIES THAT MAY HAVE DIFFERENTIATED INTERIORS SUCH AS 1 CERES 4 VESTA AND 16 PSYCHE. WE WILL APPLY FOR THE FIRST TIME A SELF-CONSISTENT MODEL THAT SIMULATES BOTH THE INDUCTIVE RESPONSE AND EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT TO THE STUDY OF EM INDUCTION AT FOUR INNER SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: THE MOON 1 CERES 4 VESTA AND 16 PSYCHE. OUR APPROACH WILL INTEGRATE A PLASMA HYBRID SIMULATION OF THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION WITH THESE TERRESTRIAL AIRLESS OBJECTS WITH THE INDUCTIVE RESPONSE OF THE INTERIORS OF THESE OBJECTS. OUR EFFORT USES AN ESTABLISHED HYBRID MODEL WITH A SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD IN THE SIMULATION OF THE MOON-SOLAR WIND INTERACTION MODIFIED TO INCLUDE THE CONDUCTIVE INTERIOR AND THE INDUCED FIELDS THAT ARE GENERATED DUE TO SOLAR WIND DISTURBANCES. BY COMPARING FOUR SELECT OBJECTS THE MOON 1 CERES 4 VESTA AND 16 PSYCHE WE WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING CORE GOALS AND KEY SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS: 1. QUANTIFY THE NATURE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF INDUCED FIELDS IN THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION FOR EACH OBJECT. 2. CHARACTERIZE THE EFFECTS OF OBJECT SIZE SHAPE INTERIOR STRUCTURE AND CONDUCTIVITY ON THE INDUCED EM RESPONSE OF THE INTERIOR AND ITS COUPLING WITH THE SURROUNDING PLASMA ENVIRONMENT. 3. SUPPORT OR REFUTE THE MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS MADE DURING THE APOLLO EM SOUNDING EXPERIMENTS AT THE MOON REGARDING THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS AT THE MOON AND DETERMINE WHETHER THESE ASSUMPTIONS HOLD AT OTHER TERRESTRIAL AIRLESS BODIES IN THE SOLAR WIND. 4. UNDERSTAND AND DEMONSTRATE THE UTILITY OF THIS MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION AND INTERPRETATION OF EM SOUNDING OF THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF TERRESTRIAL AIRLESS BODIES ON FUTURE MISSIONS SUCH AS A LUNAR GEOPHYSICAL NETWORK AND ANY FUTURE MISSION TO LARGER ASTEROIDS LIKE THE PROPOSED NASA DISCOVERY MISSION TO 16 PSYCHE. OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFORT IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO THE GOALS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS SOLICITATION PROVIDING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF SELECT TERRESTRIAL AIRLESS OBJECTS WHILE ALSO YIELDING INSIGHTS INTO POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF PLASMA INTERACTIONS WITH SMALL BODIES IN THE SOLAR WIND. THIS RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF INDUCED FIELDS AROUND AIRLESS BODIES IN TERMS OF THEIR INTERIOR STRUCTURE AND ULTIMATELY THEIR GEOPHYSICAL ORIGINS. MEASURING THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF THE MOON AND OTHER TERRESTRIAL OBJECTS IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF UNDERSTANDING THEIR FORMATION AND EVOLUTION WHICH IS A CENTRAL GOAL DESCRIBED IN BOTH THE NASA STRATEGIC AND SCIENCE PLANS. GAINING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOON S LOWER MANTLE IS A SPECIFIC GOAL LISTED IN THE MOST RECENT DECADAL SURVEY IN PLANETARY SCIENCE VISIONS AND VOYAGES FOR PLANETARY SCIENCE IN THE DECADE 2013-2022. | 2017-09-28 → 2023-09-27 | $365K |
| 80NSSC25K7678 | 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 | $356K |
| 80NSSC21K0152 | THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CONSTRAIN THE INFLUENCE OF CALLISTO'S PERTURBED ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE DYNAMICS OF ENERGETIC MAGNETOSPHERIC IONS AND ELECTRONS NEAR THE MOON. IN PARTICULAR WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AN | 2021-01-01 → 2024-12-31 | $350K |
| 80NSSC25K7690 | 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 | ? → 2028-04-30 | $346K |
| 80NSSC25K0042 | 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 AGENCYS 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 → 2029-06-30 | $343K |
| 80NSSC25K7689 | 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 | $336K |
| 80NSSC18K1565 | PHOTOEMISSIVITY IS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH. THE PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF THE LUNAR SURFACE ARE PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO THE ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE MOON'S DAYSIDE BECAUSE THE CURRENT BALANCE OF THE EMITTED PHOTOELECTRONS AND INCOMING ELECTRONS IS THE PRIMARY FACTOR CONTROLLING LUNAR SURFACE CHARGING. THE RESULTING SURFACE POTENTIAL DETERMINES THE DYNAMICS OF CHARGED DUST GRAINS AND IONIZED CONSTITUENTS OF THE TENUOUS LUNAR ATMOSPHERE. IN PARTICULAR THE HIGH-ENERGY PART OF THE PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM IS CRITICAL FOR DETERMINING SURFACE POTENTIALS IN LOW-PLASMA-DENSITY CONDITIONS (E.G. IN THE TERRESTRIAL MAGNETOTAIL LOBES). DESPITE ITS IMPORTANCE THE PHOTOELECTRIC YIELD OF THE LUNAR SURFACE FOR HIGH-ENERGY (>20 EV) SOLAR PHOTONS REMAINS UNDETERMINED LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO CHARACTERIZE AND ASSESS THE ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES AT VARIOUS SURFACE LOCATIONS INCLUDING POTENTIAL LANDING SITES IN ALL AMBIENT PLASMA CONDITIONS THAT THE MOON ENCOUNTERS. TO IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF REGOLITH PROPERTIES AND THE LUNAR ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT WE NEED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: (I) WHAT ARE THE PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH FOR HIGH-ENERGY SOLAR PHOTONS? (II) WHAT IS THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF THE ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE SUNLIT LUNAR SURFACE IN VARYING SOLAR AND PLASMA CONDITIONS? AND (III) HOW DOES THE LUNAR ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE LUNAR EXOSPHERIC PICKUP IONS AND SURFACE WEATHERING? WE AIM TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BY COMBINING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PLASMA MEASUREMENTS FROM THE ACCELERATION RECONNECTION TURBULENCE AND ELECTRODYNAMICS OF THE MOON'S INTERACTION WITH THE SUN (ARTEMIS) MISSION AND SOLAR EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET (EUV) FLUXES FROM THE SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY (SDO) MISSION AND THE OBSERVATION-BASED FLARE IRRADIANCE SPECTRAL MODEL (FISM). THE DUAL-PROBE ARTEMIS MISSION CONDUCTS COMPREHENSIVE PLASMA AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS WITH SPACECRAFT POTENTIAL INFORMATION ENABLING OBSERVATIONS OF THE HIGH-ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF LUNAR PHOTOELECTRONS ESCAPING FROM THE SUNLIT LUNAR SURFACE ALONG THE MAGNETIC FIELD LINE WITH CLEAR SEPARATION OF LUNAR PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRA FROM SPACECRAFT PHOTOELECTRON CONTAMINATION. COMBINATION OF CLEAN ACCURATE LUNAR PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRA OBTAINED BY ARTEMIS WITH SIMULTANEOUS DIRECT EUV MEASUREMENTS BY SDO WHICH CAN BE COMPLEMENTED BY FISM FOR<6 NM WAVELENGTHS ALLOWS US TO DERIVE THE PHOTOELECTRON YIELD FOR APPROXIMATELY 20-1000 EV PHOTONS. ONCE THE PHOTOELECTRON YIELD IS DETERMINED WE CAN CALCULATE THE EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIAL OF THE LUNAR SURFACE FOR A GIVEN INPUT SOLAR SPECTRUM AND AMBIENT ELECTRON FLUX. WITH THE ABILITY TO DERIVE THE DAYSIDE LUNAR SURFACE POTENTIAL FOR A WIDE RANGE OF PLASMA PARAMETERS AND SOLAR SPECTRA WE CAN STUDY THE TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF THE LUNAR ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT IN RESPONSE TO SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES IN THE AMBIENT PLASMA AND SOLAR CONDITIONS (E.G. TERRESTRIAL MAGNETOTAIL CROSSINGS AND INTENSE SOLAR FLARES). FURTHERMORE BY COMPARING PHOTOELECTRON ENERGY SPECTRA OBTAINED AT MAGNETIZED AND UNMAGNETIZED REGIONS WE CAN INVESTIGATE SURFACE POTENTIAL MODIFICATION BY CRUSTAL MAGNETIC FIELDS WHICH WERE FIRST SUGGESTED BY THE APOLLO MEASUREMENTS. FINALLY WE CAN USE THIS ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE OF THE LUNAR ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND HOW LUNAR EXOSPHERIC PICKUP IONS AND SURFACE WEATHERING ARE MODIFIED BY ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS. IN SUMMARY THE COMBINATION OF PLASMA DATA SETS OBTAINED BY ARTEMIS WITH SOLAR EUV DATA (SDO AND FISM) ENABLES DETERMINATION OF THE LUNAR SURFACE PHOTOEMISSIVITY FOR HIGH-ENERGY PHOTONS AND PROMOTES THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LUNAR ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENT. | 2018-09-20 → 2023-10-31 | $307K |
| NNX15AP89G | INVESTIGATING THE INTERACTION OF SOLAR WIND PROTONS WITH THE MOON USING ARTEMIS DATA GOALS/OBJECTIVES: THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO ANALYZ | 2015-07-10 → ? | $306K |
| 80NSSC25K7500 | 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. | 2025-01-22 → 2027-01-21 | $262K |
| 80NSSC25K0092 | 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 AGENCYS 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. | 2025-10-01 → 2028-09-30 | $247K |
| 2320260 | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: REMOTE SENSING OF THE LOWER IONOSPHERE DURING 2024 SOLAR ECLIPSE: REVEALING THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES OF IONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION -THIS AWARD INVOLVES A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY TO STUDY THE IONOSPHERE DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE. VERY LOW FREQUENCY RADIO OBSERVATIONS WILL BE MADE DURING THE 2024 SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. A SOLAR ECLIPSE IS A RARE EVENT IN WHICH THE RADIATION FROM THE SUN IS PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY OBSCURED BY THE MOON FOR A FEW MINUTES. A SOLAR ECLIPSE IS NOT ONLY SPECTACULAR TO OBSERVE BUT ALSO PROVIDES A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF THE IONOSPHERE. IN PARTICULAR, THE LOWEST PART OF THE IONOSPHERE IS SIGNIFICANTLY MODIFIED BY THE SUN AND IS DIFFICULT TO STUDY. A SOLAR ECLIPSE OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE A DAY-NIGHT-DAY CHANGE OF THE IONOSPHERE ON THE SCALE OF A FEW MINUTES. OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING AN ECLIPSE THEREFORE PROVIDE A KEY INSIGHT INTO HOW THE SUN CHANGES THE LOWER IONOSPHERE. UNDERSTANDING THE LOWER IONOSPHERE IS IMPORTANT TO IMPROVING LONG DISTANT COMMUNICATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING SPACE WEATHER PROCESSES THAT AFFECT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF TECHNOLOGIES. A NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM THE DIVERSE POPULATIONS AT BOTH UNIVERSITIES WILL SUPPORT THE EFFORT AND BE TRAINED TO MAKE LOW FREQUENCY RADIO WAVE OBSERVATIONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS. THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT COMBINES THE RESOURCES OF CU DENVER AND UC BERKELEY TO STUDY THE LOWER IONOSPHERE DURING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES, USING VLF AND ELF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES. THREE TYPES OF RECEIVER HARDWARE WILL BE USED TO MAKE SYNERGISTIC OBSERVATIONS DURING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE EVENTS. THE OBSERVATIONS WILL BE INTERPRETED WITH NUMERICAL MODELING EFFORTS TO ANSWER OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE LOWER IONOSPHERE DURING AN ECLIPSE. THE THREE SCIENCE QUESTIONS ARE 1) WHAT IS THE LATERAL AND VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE IN THE TOTALITY ZONE OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSE? 2) WHAT ARE THE OBSERVED IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS WHEN THE REGION OF TOTALITY IS NEAR A POWERFUL VLF TRANSMITTER? AND 3) WHAT IS THE LOWER IONOSPHERE CHARACTERISTIC REACTION TIME TO A POINT LIKE PERTURBATION FROM THE ECLIPSE? THE SPECIFICS OF THE 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE BRING THE LUNAR SHADOW TO THE CLOSE VICINITY OF THE MOST POWERFUL VLF TRANSMITTER IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY A SOLAR ECLIPSE WITH HIGHER RESOLUTION AND IN THE PRESENCE OF LOCAL HEATING EFFECTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | 2024-02-01 → 2026-01-31 | $244K |
| 80NSSC25K7047 | 23-LDAP23_2-0001 CHARACTERIZING LUNAR DAYSIDE PHOTOEMISSION AND ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES | 2025-03-15 → 2028-03-14 | $204K |
| 80NSSC25K0094 | 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 AGENCYS 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. | 2025-10-01 → 2028-09-30 | $201K |
| 80NSSC20M0060 | AT UCB/SSL DR. POPPE AND A GRADUATE STUDENT WILL CONDUCT BOTH DATA ANALYSIS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION INVESTIGATIONS OF PLASMA INTERACTIONS WITH THE MOON AND THE MOONS OF MARS. THE DATA ANALYSIS PORTION WILL CONSIST OF ANALYZING PARTICLE AND FIELDS | 2020-01-17 → 2025-01-16 | $200K |
| 80NSSC25K7488 | 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. | 2024-12-10 → 2025-12-09 | $88K |
| 2226124 | I-CORPS: SPACE KINETIC -THE BROADER IMPACT/COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL OF THIS I-CORPS PROJECT IS THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF POWER OPTIONS AND LOGISTICS SERVICES ON THE MOON AND OTHER LOW-GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS. THE INNOVATION COULD LAUNCH CAPSULES CONTAINING MATERIALS (LIKE OXYGEN OR WATER ETC.) TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS ACROSS THE LUNAR SURFACE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE KINETIC ENERGY OF EACH CAPSULE COULD ALSO BE CONVERTED TO USABLE ELECTRICITY TO POWER SPACE OPERATIONS. BY REDUCING POTENTIAL LAUNCH COSTS WHILE USING THE SAME INFRASTRUCTURE TO TRANSFER MATERIAL, RESOURCES, AND ENERGY THE SERVICES MAY BE OVERALL LESS EXPENSIVE. ULTIMATELY, IF THE TECHNOLOGY CAN REDUCE THE ENERGY AND RESOURCE TRANSFER COSTS ON THE MOON, THIS INNOVATION MAY SUPPORT FURTHER CONSTRUCTION, LUNAR MINING, EXPLORATION, TRAVEL, AND TOURISM POTENTIALLY ENABLING ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SPACE. THIS I-CORPS PROJECT IS BASED ON DEVELOPING LOGISTICS SERVICES AND POWER OPTIONS FOR CABLES AND LUNAR ROVERS ON THE MOON AND OTHER SPACE ENVIRONMENTS. CABLED ENERGY SYSTEMS CAN BE HEAVY MAKING THEM COSTLY TO TRANSPORT FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (POTENTIALLY OVER $1 MILLION PER KILOGRAM OF LOAD CARRIED) WHILST ENERGY BEAMING SOLUTIONS TO POWER DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT ON THE MOON SUCH AS LASERS AND MICROWAVES CAN BE INEFFICIENT AT POWERING DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT OVER LONG DISTANCES, CAN HAVE HIGH CAPITAL COSTS, AND MAY HAVE LIMITED NETWORK EFFECTS. FURTHERMORE, HYBRID SOLUTIONS COMBINING CABLES AND POWER BEAMING MAY ADD RISK BY INCREASING MISSION COMPLEXITY AND POTENTIAL POINTS OF FAILURE. ROVER-BASED SYSTEMS FOR TRANSFERRING EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS CAN ALSO BE HEAVY AND TIME-CONSUMING. BY POTENTIALLY DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED, CABLE-LESS ENERGY AND MATERIAL TRANSFER SYSTEM THAT MAY BE LIGHTER, FASTER, AND ABLE TO HANDLE MORE VOLUME, IT MAY THEREFORE BE MORE EFFICIENT THAN CABLED SYSTEMS OR ROVERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA. | 2022-06-15 → 2023-05-31 | $50K |
| 80NSSC25K7379 | 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. | 2024-11-13 → 2026-11-12 | $40K |
| 80MSFC22CA018 | THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND DELIVER AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE LUNAR SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETICS EXPERIMENT AT NIGHT. | 2022-08-17 → 2023-03-31 | $0 |
| 80MSFC23CA013 | THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND DELIVER AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE LUNAR SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETICS EXPERIMENT AT NIGHT. | 2022-08-17 → 2023-07-31 | $0 |