University of Texas at Austin
Lunar obligations
$14Mas prime
Lunar awards
13as prime
Its subcontractors
6$2.2M reported
Primes it works for
3$353K in subawards
Who it subcontracts to
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME
- Purdue University$137K
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME.
- NMC, Inc.$42K
RADAR FOR EUROPA ASSESSMENT AND SOUNDING: OCEAN TO NEAR-SURFACE (REASON): PHASE E
Who it works for
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TEAM WILL LEAD THRUST I ON SAFETY-CONSTRAINED LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE SYSTEMS. THE TEAM WILL ALSO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS TEAM ON THRUSTS II AND ILL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIFYING CASE STUDY.
REVISE STEM ENHANCEMENT IN EARTH SCIENCE (SEES) RESOURCES DEVELOPED UNDER SCIACT TO ADJUST FOR USE BY INFORMAL EDUCATORS AND PUBLIC, AND REDESIGN FOR SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES.
DR. GRIMA WILL ASSIST IN TRAINING THE GRADUATE STUDENT IN WORKING WITH RAW ALTIMETRY DATA AND RADAR STATISTICAL RECONNAISSANCE (RSR) ANALYSIS. HE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO WRITING CONFERENCE ABSTRACT AND PAPERS IN YEARS 1, 2 AND 3.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| NNG17VI05C | IGF::OT::IGF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS, AND SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE SPACE GEODESY NETWORK AND SENSORS CALIBRATION OFFICE. THIS CONTRACT IS FOR LASER RANGING OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES, AND THE MAINTENANCE AND CALIBRATION OF THE MCDONALD LASER RANGING SYSTEM (MLRS) LOCATED ON MCDONALD OBSERVATORY IN FORT DAVIS, TEXAS WHICH IS PART OF THE NASA SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) NETWORK. THESE SERVICES ARE A CONTINUATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT FOR THE NASA SLR PROGRAM. THE SERVICES INCLUDE OPERATIONS OF A SATELLITE LASER TRACKING STATION, DATA ANALYSIS, DATA ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL OF MLRS DATA PRODUCTS IN SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LASER RANGING SERVICE (ILRS), THE INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICES (IERS), AND THE GLOBAL GEODETIC OBSERVING SYSTEM (GGOS), AS APPROPRIATE. THIS PROCUREMENT IS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT LASER RANGING OPERATIONS TO ARTIFICIAL EARTH- SATELLITES, AND THE MAINTENANCE AND CALIBRATION OF THE MLRS. MLRS IS EQUIPPED TO PERFORM LASER RANGING TO SATELLITE AND LUNAR TARGETS. THIS PROCUREMENT SHALL ALSO PROVIDE FOR DATA ANALYSIS, DATA ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL OF MLRS DATA PRODUCTS IN SUPPORT OF THE ILRS, IERS, AND GGOS, AS APPROPRIATE. THESE ACTIVITIES SHALL INCLUDE UPDATED GEOCENTER TIME SERIES ESTIMATES; EVALUATION OF NEW AND RETURNING SLR STATIONS AS PART OF THE NORMAL ACCEPTANCE TESTING; RESOLUTION OF SPECIFIC STATION COORDINATE PROBLEMS; RE-EXAMINATION OF THE SLR ESTIMATES OF THE EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL COEFFICIENT (GM) AND THE IMPACT ON SCALE WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME (ITRF); PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION AND VERIFICATION; AND PARTICIPATION IN ILRS, IERS, AND GGOS WORKING GROUP MEETINGS. | 2017-04-03 → 2022-05-02 | $4.0M |
| FA95502310646 | REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REG | 2023-09-01 → 2027-08-31 | $4.0M |
| 80NSSC20M0087 | THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED TO PROVIDE ABSOLUTE NAVIGATION AND TIMING SERVICES IN LUNAR ORBIT VIA OPTICAL-BASED TRACKING OF SURFACE FEATURES. | 2020-07-01 → 2027-08-31 | $2.4M |
| 80NSSC25K7417 | 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 → 2028-05-20 | $659K |
| 80NSSC20M0061 | NASA S LCROSS (LUNAR CRATER OBSERVATION AND SENSING SATELLITE) MISSION IMPACTED THE PERMANENTLY SHADOWED REGION (PSR) OF THE CABEUS CRATER NEAR THE SOUTH POLE OF THE MOON ON 9 OCTOBER 2009. THROUGH THIS WORK WE WILL TEST SEVERAL HYPOTHESES. | 2020-01-23 → 2026-01-22 | $521K |
| 80NSSC25K7864 | 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 | 2025-03-18 → 2028-03-17 | $439K |
| 80NSSC17K0725 | THERE ARE FOUR NORMALLY AIRLESS BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM THAT COULD SUSTAIN A TRANSIENT COLLISIONAL ATMOSPHERE AFTER BEING STRUCK BY AN ICY COMET: MERCURY THE MOON AND CERES/VESTA. OTHER AIRLESS BODIES ARE EITHER TOO SMALL TO GRAVITATIONALLY BIND WATER AND SIMILARLY VOLATILE VAPORS FOR LONG OR SO COLD THAT SUCH VOLATILES WOULD RAPIDLY FREEZE OUT. THE FOUR ARE THUS SINGULAR AND RELATED BY THIS SPECIAL FEATURE. ALTHOUGH MMCV CURRENTLY HAVE SURFACE BOUNDARY EXOSPHERES AT MOST THEY HAVE ICY DEPOSITS SUGGESTIVE OF ATMOSPHERIC/ EXOSPHERIC FLOW TO COLD TRAPS AND WERE CERTAINLY IMPACTED BY COMETS IN THE PAST. THESE BODIES ALSO EXPERIENCE SYSTEMATIC TRENDS IN PROPERTIES THAT WOULD INFLUENCE IMPACT-ATMOSPHERES: SURFACE GRAVITY ILLUMINATION INTENSITY PEAK SURFACE TEMPERATURE SPIN RATE AND MEAN COMET IMPACT SPEED. WE HAVE DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO MODEL POST-IMPACT TRANSIENT ATMOSPHERES ON THE MOON (STEWART ET AL. 2011 PREM ET AL. 2015 2016). OUR DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO MODELS INCLUDE COLLISIONAL MOLECULAR GAS DYNAMICS PHOTO-CHEMISTRY COLLISIONAL CHEMISTRY LINE BY LINE RADIATIVE TRANSPORT THE ABILITY TO INCLUDE REFRACTORY OR ICY PARTICULATES WITH THE VAPOR LIGHT SCATTERING AND THERMAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE PARTICLES AND GAS AND POINT-WISE SURFACE TEMPERATURES BASED ON LOCAL SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON A ROTATING 3D BODY. | 2017-11-01 → 2022-10-31 | $427K |
| 80NSSC18M0121 | WITH THE RECENT PROPOSALS BY NASA TO CONDUCT CREWED MISSIONS BEYOND LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) THERE IS A NEED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND EXPLOIT THE GOVERNING ORBITAL DYNAMICS IN CISLUNAR SPACE AND OTHER HEAVILY PERTURBED SPACE ENVIRONMENTS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO INNOVATE NEW TECHNIQUES AND APPLY RECENT INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN STATE OF THE ART MODELING AND TRAJECTORY DESIGN FOR CREWED VEHICLE EXPLORATION. THE CHALLENGE IS TO RAPIDLY AND ROBUSTLY MODEL DESIGN AND CONTROL COMPLICATED TRAJECTORIES AND MISSION SCENARIOS IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN EXPLORATION OF THE MOON AND BEYOND. THE HUMAN CREWED ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM AND THE HIGHLY PERTURBED DYNAMICAL ENVIRONMENT MAKE FOR A CHALLENGING UNSOLVED AND CUSTOMIZED PROBLEM. SPECIFICALLY THE PERTURBATIONS OF THE MOON SUN AND NON-SPHERICAL GRAVITY MAKE TRAJECTORIES MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE NEAR KEPLERIAN ORBITS FOUND IN LEO. THE CHAOTIC NATURE OF MULTIBODY GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LARGE COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH FIDELITY MODELS AND CONTINUOUS THRUSTING (LOW-THRUST) PRESENTS A HUGE DESIGN SPACE. THE SOLUTION METHODS WILL TAKE A VARIETY OF PARALLEL PATHS INCLUDING ASPECTS OF MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES SUCH AS ORBITAL MECHANICS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION OPTIMAL CONTROL PERTURBATION ANALYSIS AND HIGH FIDELITY MODELING AND SIMULATION. SPECIFIC PROBLEMS TO BE CONSIDERED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO POTENTIAL TRANSFERS FROM LAUNCH VEHICLES DEPARTING EARTH TRANSFERS IN AND AROUND EARTH-MOON SPACE TRANSFERS AIDING LUNAR SURFACE ACCESS ABORT TRAJECTORY CALCULATION AND OTHER RELATED TASKS. APPROACHES TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM WILL INCLUDE THREE-BODY PERIODIC ORBITS FAST NUMERICAL METHODS ANALYTIC METHODS PRECOMPUTED DATABASES INITIAL GUESS GENERATORS CONTINUATION METHODS ON-BOARD IMPLEMENTATION PARALLEL COMPUTING IMPULSIVE LOW-THRUST AND FINITE THRUST TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION. RESULTING ALGORITHMS AND TOOLS WILL ACT AS BOTH STAND-ALONE SOLUTIONS AS WELL AS ADD-ON CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT THE EXISTING NASA/JSC TOOL SET. AN EMPHASIS WILL BE PLACED ON FAST DESIGN METHODS THAT ENABLE THE GENERATION OF FAMILIES OF SOLUTIONS RATHER THAN POINT DESIGNS AND RAPID GENERATION OF COMPLEX SOLUTIONS THAT TRADITIONALLY CAN TAKE HOURS OR DAYS TO DESIGN AND COMPUTE. THE RESEARCH WILL ADVANCE STATE OF THE PRACTICE AT NASA/JSC AND STATE OF THE ART FOR CREWED TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND COMPUTATION INCLUDING NEW METHODS FROM THE LITERATURE CUSTOM ADAPTED TO THE PROBLEMS SPECIFIC TO CREWED VEHICLES AND ASSOCIATED CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES. WITH TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SPACE FLIGHT MECHANICS AND TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION THE PI FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN S CENTER FOR SPACE RESEARCH IS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO EXECUTE THE PROPOSED WORK. GIVEN NASA S RECENT PUSH TO SEND ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON AND BEYOND THE TIME IS RIPE TO LEVERAGE RECENT ADVANCES AND INNOVATE NEW ADVANCES IN ASSOCIATED TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES. | 2018-08-15 → 2024-08-14 | $400K |
| 80NSSC25K7791 | 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 | $299K |
| 80NSSC24K0686 | ENGINEERING PLANT MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS FOR IMPROVED PLANT GROWTH ON SIMULATED LUNAR REGOLITH | 2024-02-08 → 2027-02-07 | $297K |
| 80NSSC20K1212 | THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL IMPROVE UPON A NOVEL TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM CALLED MULTIPLE-SHOOTING DIFFERENTIAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING AND APPLY IT TO SOLVE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN CISLUNAR SPACE. | 2020-08-15 → 2024-08-14 | $292K |
| 80NSSC19K1140 | THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL APPLY LOW-THRUST CONTROL TO A RECENTLY DEVELOPED METHODOLOGY FOR PRELIMINARY LOW-ENERGY TRAJECTORY DESIGN WHICH PATCHES TOGETHER PERIODIC ORBITS IN THE RESTRICTED 3-BODY PROBLEM TO BUILD A TRAJECTORY. THE ADDITION OF LOW-THRUST SEGMENTS TO INDIVIDUAL PERIODIC ORBITS WILL BE EXAMINED TO SEE WHAT NEW CONNECTIONS APPEAR WITH ADJACENT PERIODIC ORBITS. THESE CONNECTIONS WILL LEVERAGED TO CONSTRUCT NEW PATHWAYS FOR CISLUNAR TRANSFERS AND PLANETARY MOON TOURS. ANALYSIS WILL BE PERFORMED USING THE ODYSSEY TOOL FROM UT AUSTIN S SPACE TRAJECTORY COMPUTATION LAB AND RESULTS WILL BE USED AS INITIAL GUESSES FOR HIGHER-FIDELITY NASA SOFTWARE SUCH AS MYSTIC OR COPERNICUS. | 2019-08-28 → ? | $114K |
| 80NSSC20K1128 | LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONAL RECORDS OF EARTH S ORIENTATION PARAMETERS (EOP) HAVE SHOWN THAT THE LENGTH-OF-DAY (LOD) AND THE EARTH S ROTATION AXIS POSITION CHANGE FROM SUB-DAILY TO DECADAL TIME SCALES AND LONGER. ASIDE FROM SUN-EARTH-MOON INTERACTIONS TH | 2020-05-29 → 2023-05-28 | $38K |