Regents of the University of Minnesota
Lunar obligations
$4.1Mas prime
Lunar awards
9as prime
Its subcontractors
1$243K reported
Primes it works for
1$1.8M in subawards
Who it subcontracts to
DETERMINING THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY WAVES IN SOLAR WIND DYNAMICS AND ENERGETICS PARTICLE PROPAGATION
Who it works for
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.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80NSSC25K7665 | 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. | 2025-05-01 → 2028-04-30 | $1.2M |
| 80NSSC20M0028 | A CHARGE FORWARD: ACTIVATING THE NATION'S PLANETARIUMS TO EXCITE THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION OF THE MOON AND BEYOND | 2020-07-01 → 2024-06-30 | $863K |
| 80NSSC25K7349 | 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. | 2025-02-10 → 2028-02-09 | $670K |
| 80NSSC19K0305 | THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY WAVES (10 HZ TO 10 KHZ) IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR WIND AND PROPAGATION OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES IS NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD EITHER EXPERIMENTALLY OR THEORETICALLY. THIS BAND COVERS THE RANGE FROM ~0.1 FCE (ELECTRON CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY) THROUGH SEVERAL TIMES FPI (THE ION PLASMA FREQUENCY). OUR PREVIOUS STUDIES OF WAVES IN THIS RANGE HAVE REVEALED THE EXISTENCE OF TWO NEWLY IDENTIFIED WAVE MODES IN THE SOLAR WIND: (1) OBLIQUE NARROW BAND WHISTLER-MODE WAVES AT ~0.2 FCE; AND (2) ELECTROSTATIC DISPERSIVE WAVES NEAR THE ION PLASMA FREQUENCY. THESE WAVES ARE OFTEN LARGE AMPLITUDE UP TO 10S MV/M. CURRENT MODELS OF SOLAR WIND STRUCTURES INCLUDING CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS (CMES) STREAM INTERACTION REGIONS (SIRS) AND INTERPLANETARY (IP) SHOCKS AND OF PROPAGATION OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES (SEP) DO NOT INCLUDE THE EFFECTS OF THESE WAVES. OUR PRELIMINARY TEST PARTICLE STUDIES OF THE WHISTLER-MODE WAVES INDICATE THAT THEY MAY SIGNIFICANTLY SCATTER AND/OR ENERGIZE ELECTRONS RANGING FROM 100S EV (STRAHL) UP TO MEV (SEPS). WE PROPOSE AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY UTILIZING HIGH TIME RESOLUTION FIELDS AND PARTICLES DATA FROM THE STEREO ARTEMIS AND MMS MISSIONS. OUR OVERARCHING SCIENCE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF THESE INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY WAVES IN THE DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND AND PROPAGATION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES. WE PROPOSE TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: (1) WHAT FEATURES OF THE PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS GENERATE THE OBSERVED NARROWBAND WHISTLER-MODE WAVES AND THE ELECTROSTATIC DISPERSIVE WAVES? (2) WHAT IS THE INFLUENCE OF WAVE MODE COUPLING ON THESE WAVES? (3) DO THESE TWO WAVE TYPES OCCUR PREFERENTIALLY WITH A SPECIFIC SOLAR WIND STRUCTURE (E.G. SHOCKS CIRS) AND HOW DO THESE WAVES MODIFY THE STRUCTURES EVOLUTION? (4) CAN EITHER WAVE TYPE SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCE PROPAGATION OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES? THE DISCOVERY OF THESE MODES WAS ENABLED BY THE LONG (2.1 S) 3D ELECTRIC FIELD WAVEFORM CAPTURES ON STEREO. THIS MODE WAS RUN FOR PERIODS IN 2011 AND CONTINUOUSLY BEGINNING MARCH 2017. LONGER WAVEFORM CAPTURES OBTAINED BY ARTEMIS AND MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE (MMS) WHICH ALSO INCLUDE SEARCH COIL DATA AND HIGHER TIME RESOLUTION PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS PROVIDE THE DATA SETS NEEDED TO MORE FULLY CHARACTERIZE THE WAVE PROPERTIES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH SPECIFIC FEATURES IN THE ELECTRON AND ION DISTRIBUTIONS. OUR ANALYSIS WILL UTILIZE PRIMARILY THE BURST MODE FIELDS AND PARTICLE DATA SETS FROM THESE THREE MISSIONS WITH THE MORE CONTINUOUS SURVEY DATA SETS PROVIDING CONTEXT AND USED TO DISTINGUISH SOLAR WIND STRUCTURE TYPES. THE DATA SETS CURRENTLY PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF EVENTS WITH THE VARIETY OF SOLAR WIND CONDITIONS NEEDED TO ADDRESS OUR SCIENCE QUESTIONS. IN PARTICULAR WE HAVE ALREADY IDENTIFIED A SET OF EVENTS WITH BURST MODE DATA FROM THE SOLAR WIND OBSERVATIONS BY MMS FROM 10/2017 THROUGH 3/2018 AND FROM THE ARTEMIS FROM 11/2011 THROUGH 8/2017 AND STEREO-A FROM 3/2017 THROUGH 3/2018. STANDARD WAVE MODE IDENTIFICATION AND FREE ENERGY DETERMINATION TECHNIQUES WILL BE UTILIZED TOGETHER WITH LINEAR DISPERSION SOLVERS. TEST PARTICLE SIMULATIONS USING OUR EXISTING CODE WILL BE USED TO ASSESS IMPACT OF THESE WAVE TYPES ON SPECIFIC PARTICLE POPULATIONS. OUR RESEARCH IS RELEVANT TO THE STEREO GOALS TO DISCOVER THE MECHANISMS AND SITES OF ENERGETIC PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN THE INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM AND IMPROVE THE DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE AMBIENT SOLAR WIND AND CHARACTERIZE THE PROPAGATION OF CMES THROUGH THE HELIOSPHERE. OUR WORK IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE ARTEMIS OBJECTIVE TO EXAMINE PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TURBULENCE IN THE SOLAR WIND. WE DIRECTLY ADDRESS TWO GOALS OF THE DECADAL SURVEY: DETERMINE THE INTERACTION OF THE SUN WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM ; AND DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. | 2019-04-01 → 2024-02-01 | $521K |
| 80NSSC19K0959 | TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ACCRETION OF VOLATILES TO TERRESTRIAL PLANETS SMALL PLANETARY BODIES AND THE MOON AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION OWING TO INITIAL DIFFERENTIATION WE PROPOSE TWO PROJECTS. THE FIRST FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF MAGMATIC H2 IN THE ACQUISITION OF HYDROUS COMPONENTS IN ACCRETING PLANETS AND PROTOPLANETARY EMBRYOS. THE SECOND EXTENDS OUR STUDIES OF H AND F IN SILICATE MINERALS FROM THE MOON. MAGMATIC MOLECULAR H2 IN EARLY PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION KEY OBJECTIVES: WE WILL DETERMINE THE SOLUBILITY OF H2 IN PLANETARY MAGMAS IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND H MASS TRANSFER AND ASSOCIATED CHEMICAL REACTIONS DURING DIFFERENTIATION OF SMALL AND LARGE BODIES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. BOTH HYDROGEN GAS AND SILICATE MAGMAS WERE ABUNDANT DURING PLANETESIMAL AND PROTOPLANET ACCRETION AND DIFFERENTIATION. UNDER REDUCING CONDITIONS MAGMAS DISSOLVE H IN PART AS MOLECULAR H2 WHICH ALLOWS DIRECT INGASSING OF NEBULAR H2 TO PLANETARY EMBRYOS AND PROTOPLANETS AND MAY FACILITATE OUTGASSING OF MAGMA OCEANS TO PRIMORDIAL ATMOSPHERES. SOME INGASSED H2 MAY BE RETAINED IN EARLY PLANETARY MANTLES AND SOME MAY PARTITION INTO METALLIC CORES. REDOX REACTIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF MAGMATIC H (H2O AND H2) AND FE (FEO METALLIC FE) HAVE IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCES FOR SEQUESTRATION OF H IN CORES AND FOR THE OXIDATION STATE OF MANTLES. SOLUBILITY OF H2 IN MAGMAS REMAINS POORLY QUANTIFIED. NO DATA ARE AVAILABLE ON COMPOSITIONS RELEVANT TO EARLY PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION AND THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE IS NOT KNOWN. CRUCIALLY ANALYTICAL QUANTIFICATION REMAINS HIGHLY UNCERTAIN. PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS WERE QUANTIFIED USING FTIR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS CALIBRATED FROM SIO2 GLASS BUT THE CALIBRATION COULD BE QUITE DIFFERENT FOR NATURAL ALUMINOSILICATE GLASSES. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES: WE PROPOSE THE FIRST MEASUREMENT OF IR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS FOR ALUMINOSILICATE GLASSES BY GRAVIMETRY AND SIMS (TASK 1) AND NEW H2 SOLUBILITY EXPERIMENTS TO CALIBRATE AN IONIC POROSITY MODEL THAT WILL PREDICT H2 SOLUBILITY AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE TEMPERATURE AND MELT COMPOSITION (TASK 2). WE WILL APPLY THESE TO INGASSING AND OUTGASSING OF H2 DURING PROTOPLANET AND PLANETARY ACCRETION AND DIFFERENTIATION. LUNAR F AND H FROM STUDY OF SILICATE MINERALS KEY OBJECTIVES: WE WILL DOCUMENT THE VOLATILE INVENTORY OF THE MOON IN ITS EARLIEST STAGES OF DIFFERENTIATION BY HIGHLY SENSITIVE ANALYSIS OF F AND H IN LUNAR SILICATE MINERALS. THE ABUNDANCES OF LUNAR VOLATILES THEIR DELIVERY AND RETENTION REMAIN CONTROVERSIAL. IN CONTRAST TO EARLY FTIR RESULTS OUR SIMS ANALYSES INDICATE THAT PLAGIOCLASE FROM FERROAN ANORTHOSITES ARE NOW CHIEFLY DRY THOUGH THEY MAY HAVE CONTAINED GREATER H DURING THEIR FORMATION. IN CONTRAST THE PLAGIOCLASE RETAIN SMALL AMOUNTS OF F. GIVEN APPROPRIATE PARTITION COEFFICIENTS THIS WOULD ALLOW CALCULATION OF THE F CONTENT OF THE LMO AND CONSTRAIN THE ACQUISITION OF MODERATELY VOLATILE ELEMENTS DURING LUNAR ACCRETION. PAIRED WITH OH/F RATIOS DETERMINED FROM APATITE DIRECT DETERMINATION OF F IN LUNAR MAGMAS FROM PLAGIOCLASE AND PYROXENE COULD PROVIDE REFINED CONSTRAINTS ON H2O IN IMPORTANT LUNAR RESERVOIRS. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES: IN TASK 3 WE WILL USE SIMS TO DETERMINE F (AND IF PRESENT H) IN MG-SUITE ROCKS AND K-RICH AND AL-RICH BASALTS TO CONSTRAIN THE F AND H2O CONTENT OF KREEP-RELATED MAGMAS. IN TASK 4 WE WILL CONDUCT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE PARTITIONING EXPERIMENTS OF F THAT ARE NEEDED TO CONVERT OBSERVATIONS FROM PLAGIOCLASE TO MAGMAS OF THE LMO AND THEREFORE TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF VOLATILES ON THE EARLY MOON. RELEVANCE TO EMERGING WORLDS INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HYDROGEN AND MOLTEN SILICATE ARE A KEY MODE OF MASS TRANSFER DURING FORMATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF PLANETESIMALS EMBYROS AND PROTOPLANETS. EVIDENCE OF ABUNDANCES OF F AND H IN THE EARLY MOON DOCUMENTS THE ACQUISITION AND RETENTION OF VOLATILE MATERIAL DURING FORMATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM. | 2019-04-30 → 2023-04-29 | $482K |
| 80NSSC24K0713 | THE IMPACT OF LUNAR REGOLITH ON NITROGEN FIXATION IN A PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIUM | 2024-05-01 → 2025-09-01 | $96K |
| 80NSSC25K7934 | 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 | 2025-06-13 → 2028-06-12 | $95K |
| 80NSSC25K7826 | 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 | 2025-02-05 → 2027-02-04 | $80K |
| 80NSSC25K0116 | 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 | 2025-05-19 → 2027-05-18 | $70K |