The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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UAH WILL LEAD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HAIL PADS AND OUTREACH MATERIALS AND WILL WORK TO DISTRIBUTE THEM, ALONG WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THEM AND SEND IN THE DATA, ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST US. FURTHER, UAH WILL ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA COLLECTED, AND WILL LEAD A MANUSCRIPT ON THE RESULTS FROM THE WORK.
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE HELIOSPHERIC ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS (ENAS) OF HYDROGEN IN THE ENERGY RANGE OF THE IBEX-LO AND IBEX-HI INSTRUMENTS
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| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80NSSC25M7049 | 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. | 2025-01-01 → 2027-12-31 | $583K |
| 80NSSC25K7750 | 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 | 2025-02-21 → 2026-02-20 | $547K |
| 80NSSC25K7672 | 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 | 2025-02-14 → 2028-02-13 | $341K |
| 80NSSC22K0268 | FORECASTING SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE EVENTS AT THE CIS-LUNAR ENVIRONMENT USING THE COMBINED AWSOM-IPATH MODEL SECTION VII - PROJECT SUMMARY WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN OPERATIONAL SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE FORECAST MODEL FOR THE CIS-LUNAR ENVIRONMENT BY | 2022-02-01 → 2024-12-31 | $314K |
| 80NSSC21M0230 | THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF REDUCED AND LUNAR GRAVITY ON THE DYNAMIC CRATER EVOLUTION PROCESS. TO THIS END THE MAIN RESEARCH OBJECTIVES WILL BE: 1. DEVELOP A NEW RESEARCH FACILITY FOR TESTING AND EVALUATING CURRENT AND FUTURE | 2021-09-01 → 2025-06-30 | $298K |
| 80NSSC20K0992 | MOST UNDERGRADUATE MISSION ANALYSIS OR SPACE MECHANICS CLASSES SPEND LITTLE TIME BEYOND CLASSICAL ORBITAL MECHANICS OF TWO BODIES (THE SPACECRAFT AND THE ORBITING BODY). MISSIONS TO THE MOON HOWEVER REQUIRE MORE CHALLENGING DYNAMICS WHERE THE SOLUTIONS CAN RUN COUNTER TO CLASSICAL CONIC ORBITS. TO CLOSE THIS GAP WE PLAN TO CREATE INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE SELF-STUDY AND TEACHING RESOURCES FOR MISSION ANALYSIS WITHIN GRAVITATIONAL MULTI-BODY ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS THE CISLUNAR SPACE. THIS MATERIAL WILL INCLUDE AN EASY-TO USE MULTI-BODY INTERFACE AS WELL AS VISUAL DEMOS FOR STUDENTS TO BETTER GRASP THE COMPLEXITIES OF CISLUNAR SPACE. GRAVITATIONAL MULTIBODY DYNAMICS ORIGINATE FROM THE INTERACTION OF MULTIPLE GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS. FOR EXAMPLE THE DEEP SPACE GATEWAY (DSG) MOTION IN LUNAR NEAR RECTILINEAR HALO ORBIT (NRHO) IS DRIVEN BY THE COMBINED GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON. WHILE MULTIBODY DYNAMICS OFFER NEW DESIGN OPTIONS FOR THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM THEY ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN TO BE CHAOTIC AND TO DO NOT YIELD READY TO- USE FORMULAS. MISSION ANALYSIS WITHIN GRAVITATIONAL MULTI-BODY ENVIRONMENTS IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT AND MORE COMPLEX THAN TRADITIONAL MISSION ANALYSIS USING CLASSIC CONIC THEORY. TO ENABLE A LARGER NUMBER OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY PARTICIPATE IN ARTEMIS-RELATED PROJECTS A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF MISSION ANALYSIS WITHIN GRAVITATIONAL MULTI-BODY ENVIRONMENTS IS REQUIRED. THIS PROPOSAL CREATES A STRONG SYNERGY WITH CURRENT ASGC EFFORT TO DESIGN BUILD AND FLY A CUBESAT WITH THE FIRST ARTEMIS MISSION. THE CURRENT AEGIS PROPOSAL IS TARGETING A DISTANT RETROGRADE ORBIT WHICH IS A MULTI-BODY TRAJECTORY. IF SUCCESSFUL OUR EFFORT WILL PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PREPARE AND INSPIRE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ALABAMA TO PARTICIPATE TO CISLUNAR CUBESAT MISSIONS ORCHESTRATED BY THE ASGC. FURTHERMORE OUR CROSS-STATE TEAM REACHES STUDENTS BEYOND ALABAMA S BOARDERS. OUR TEAM IS ASSEMBLED FROM DEEP AND DIVERSE EXPERTISE NEEDED FOR THIS PROJECT. DR. GUZZETTI GRADUATED FROM PURDUE UNIVERSITY WORKING FOR THE MULTI-BODY DYNAMICS RESEARCH GROUP. THIS GROUP HAS SUPPORTED DIFFERENT NASA MULTI-BODY MISSIONS NOTABLY THE THEMIS-ARTEMIS MISSION THAT WAS THE FIRST MISSION TO FLY IN CISLUNAR SPACE ALONG MULTI-BODY TRAJECTORIES. DR. GUZZETTI ALSO OPERATES A VIRTUAL REALITY LAB AT THE AEROSPACE DEPARTMENT AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY. DR. KAELA MARTIN HAS A STRONG BACKGROUND IN MISSION ANALYSIS THROUGH FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS AT JPL AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION. DR. MARTIN AND DR. ELIF MISKIOGLU A CHEMICAL ENGINEER WHO ALSO RESEARCHES ENGINEERING EDUCATION WERE RECENTLY AWARDED AN NSF GRANT TO STUDY INTUITION DEVELOPMENT. BOTH DR. MARTIN AND DR. MISKIOGLU HAVE SEVERAL YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES IN A VARIETY OF CLASSES INCLUDING CAPSTONE. | 2020-05-31 → 2022-08-31 | $250K |
| 80NSSC25K7702 | 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 → 2027-03-31 | $150K |
| 80NSSC18K1318 | I WILL EXPAND AND ENHANCE MY PREVIOUS STUDIES OF THE NEWLY REDISCOVERED APOLLO 17'S LUNAR SEISMIC PROFILING EXPERIMENT (LSPE) AND LUNAR SURFACE GRAVIMETER (LSG) DATA. THIS WORK INVESTIGATES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THERMAL MOONQUAKES AND LUNAR REGOLITH PRODUCTION USING LSPE AND PROBES THE INTERIOR OF THE MOON BY DETERMINING THE LOCATIONS OF DEEP MOONQUAKES FROM LSG. THE MOON IS THE ONLY PLANETARY BODY (OTHER THAN THE EARTH) TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT RECORD OF SEISMOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. APOLLO 12-16 STATIONS FORM THE PASSIVE SEISMIC ARRAY THAT HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY ANALYZED FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF SEISMIC EVENTS INCLUDING DEEP MOONQUAKES AND THERMAL EVENTS. DEEP MOONQUAKES OCCUR ABOUT HALFWAY TO THE CORE OF THE MOON AND HAVE LUNAR STRUCTURE IMPLICATIONS WHILE THERMAL MOONQUAKES ARE LINKED TO CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE AND GIVE INFORMATION ON LUNAR SURFACE PROCESSES. APOLLO 17'S LSPE AND LSG WERE ALSO DEPLOYED ON THE MOON BUT THE DATA WERE LOST AND NEVER ANALYZED. BY USING THE NEWLY DISCOVERED APOLLO 17 DATA WE CAN FORM A MORE COMPLETE SEISMIC PROFILE OF THE MOON FROM THE SURFACE TO THE CORE. BY STUDYING AND IMPROVING THE DEEP MOONQUAKE LOCATION UNCERTAINTIES USING THE LSG DATA WE CAN GREATLY IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE MOON. THE LSPE DATA ADDS INSIGHTS ON THERMALLY INDUCED MOONQUAKES FOR ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES ABOUT THE LUNAR SURFACE SUCH AS THE POSSIBLE BREAKDOWN OF ROCKS INTO REGOLITH AND THE LOCATIONS OF THESE SMALL-SCALE EVENTS. THIS STUDY IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO NASA'S STRATEGIC PLAN AND TOPICS IDENTIFIED AS RELEVANT TO NASA'S PLANETARY SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM SUCH AS ENHANCING SCIENCE RETURN THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATING THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE MOON | 2018-09-01 → 2022-05-31 | $135K |
| 80NSSC25K7251 | 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. | 2024-12-01 → 2027-11-30 | $100K |
| 80NSSC19M0182 | THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO MAP THE THICKNESS OF A DUST/WATER ICE LAYER IN THE PERMANENTLY SHADED REGIONS (PSRS) IN THE LUNAR POLAR REGIONS BY CONSIDERING MIXING PROCESSES. WATER IS A KEY ELEMENT OF FUTURE RESOURCE IN PLANETARY EXPLORATIONS. SIGNS OF WATER ICE HAVE BEEN DETECTED ON THE MOON BY DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES. THEIR SOURCES MAY RESULT FROM IMPACTS OF ASTEROIDS AND COMETS VOLCANISM OR IMPLANTATION BY THE SOLAR WIND. CLASSICAL THEORIES DISCUSS THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF WATER ICE ON THE LUNAR SURFACE IS RELATED TO HEAT TRANSFER. WATER ICE PARTICLES IN THE SURFACE LAYER CAN BE SUBLIMATED (OR MELTED) BY VARIOUS PROCESSES SUCH AS IMPACT CRATERING AND SOLAR HEATING. THEN THEY MAY BE TRANSPORTED AT LOW ATTITUDE BUT TRAPPED BY COLD SPOTS INCLUDING THE PSRS. HOWEVER THIS EXPLANATION IS INCOMPLETE BECAUSE LUNAR SURFACE MATERIALS ARE MIXED BY IMPACTS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES. THE PRESENT PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HOW MATERIAL MIXING AFFECTS THE THICKNESS OF A DUST/WATER ICE LAYER. THE CURRENT PROJECT WILL EXPLORE THE MIXING DEPTH OF A DUST/ WATER ICE LAYER ON THE FLOORS OF THREE CRATERS AMUNDSEN CABEUS B AND LOVELACE. THE FIRST TWO CRATERS ARE LOCATED IN THE SOUTH POLE REGION WHILE THE THIRD ONE IS IN THE NORTH POLE REGION. THUS THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THESE CRATERS ALLOW US TO INFER THE CONTRAST OF THE WATER ICE DISTRIBUTION IN THE PSRS AT THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES. WE WILL DIVIDE A PSR WITHIN EACH CRATER INTO TWO LOCATIONS. THE FIRST LOCATION IS A PSR REGION FAR FROM THE SUNLIT-SHADOW BOUNDARY (SSB) OR AREA 1. THE SECOND REGION IS AT THE SSB DEFINED AS AREA 2. WE CONSIDER THAT MIXING IN AREA 1 IS ONLY CONTROLLED BY IMPACT BOMBARDMENT WHILE THAT IN AREA 2 IS INFLUENCED BY BOTH IMPACT CRATERING AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL WE EMPLOY DATA ANALYSIS STATISTICAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS. FOLLOWING ARE THE PLANNED TASKS. TASK A WILL CONDUCT DATA ANALYSIS BY USING ARCHIVED DATA IN NASA/PDS FROM LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (LRO)S THE LYMAN-ALPHA MAPPING PROJECT (LAMP) INSTRUMENT AND ITS CAMERA SYSTEM (LROC). WE WILL USE DATA FROM THE LROC AND LAMP INSTRUMENTS ARCHIVED IN THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM. LROC IMAGES WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP THE CRATER PRODUCTION FUNCTION AND ANALYZE THE CRATER CONDITIONS. LAMP IMAGES WILL BE USED TO ANALYZE THE AMOUNT OF WATER ICE IN THE SPRS. TASK B WILL QUANTIFY THE IMPACT-DRIVEN MIXING DEPTH ON THE FLOOR OF THE TARGET CRATERS BY USING AN ESTABLISHED STATISTICAL MODEL. THIS MODEL WILL PROVIDE THE STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE IMPACT-DRIVEN MIXING DEPTH OF A DUST/WATER ICE LAYER IN AREAS 1 AND 2 FOR EACH CRATER GIVEN THE CSFD FROM TASK A. IN THIS TASK WE WILL ASSUME THAT THE CSFDS OF THE PSR AND THE SUN-LIT REGION ARE SIMILAR WITHIN A CRATER. TASK C WILL EXPERIMENTALLY MEASURE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF DUST/WATER ICE TRANSPORTED AT THE SSB. EXPERIMENTS WILL BE PERFORMED IN THE MAGNETIZED PLASMA RESEARCH LABORATORY (MPRL) IN THE AUBURN UNIVERSITY PHYSICS DEPARTMENT. TASK D WILL INTEGRATE ALL THE RESULTS IN THESE TASKS TO GIVE CONSTRAINTS ON THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL MIXING ON THE THICKNESS OF A DUST/WATER ICE LAYER IN THE PSRS. THE PRESENT CALL SEEKS RESEARCH OF POTENTIAL FOR RESOURCES INCLUDING NEAR SURFACE LUNAR ICE WITH HIGH H2O CONCENTRATION. BASED ON THE EXPECTED RESULTS OUR PROJECT FITS THE CALLS GOAL BY PROVIDING IDEAS FOR WATER ICE SAMPLING TECHNOLOGIES. | 2019-07-01 → 2022-06-30 | $99K |
| 80NSSC20M0136 | DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM (SLS) VEHICLE AT THE NASA- MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (MSFC) SUPPORTS THE ARTEMIS MISSION TO THE MOON MARS AND BEYOND [1]. TO SUSTAIN THESE MISSIONS THERE IS A NEED FOR FABRICATION OF LANDERS AS WELL AS | 2020-07-15 → 2022-07-14 | $97K |
| 80NSSC25K7106 | 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 → 2026-10-27 | $75K |
| 80NSSC21M0139 | AS NASA ADVANCES HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION CROP PLANTS WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SUSTAINED HUMAN PRESENCE IN SPACE ON THE MOON AND ON MARS. | 2021-07-01 → 2023-06-30 | $64K |
| 80NSSC22K0206 | THIS PROPOSAL IS IN SUPPORT OF A NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER EFFORT TO DEVELOP A DUST ACCUMULATION SENSOR FOR AN UPCOMING ROBOTIC MISSION TO THE MOON. THE EFFORT IS AN EXTENSION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM CONDUCTED IN 2002-2004 AND PERFORMED BETWEEN | 2021-10-18 → 2025-10-17 | $47K |
| 80NSSC22M0079 | THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES THE NASA NEEDS FOR TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING THE INNOVATIVE USE OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES TO FABRICATE STRUCTURES THAT ARE CRITICAL TO FUTURE LUNAR AND DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION SYSTEMS. TO MEET THIS NEED WE ARE PROPOSING | 2022-02-15 → 2024-02-14 | $22K |