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National Science Foundation

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Xona won a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation in 2020 for research related to its proposed low Earth orbit constellation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipAug 4, 2021Startups map out strategies to augment or backup GPS

Planet expanded its contract with the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to provide access to PlanetScope imagery for scientific research use for all U.S. Federal Civilian researchers and National Science Foundation funded researchers, including their contractors and grantees.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralJul 23, 2021NASA expands access to Planet Data to all US Federal Civilian agencies

The National Science Foundation received a 20% increase in the president’s 2021-10-01 budget request.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralJul 12, 2021The House CJS Subcommittee FY22 NASA Budget Markup Comments From The Coalition For Deep Space Exploration

S. 1260 authorizes funding increases for DARPA and the National Science Foundation and establishes a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipJun 9, 2021Senate passes NASA authorization act

The University of Illinois awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a contract on 2021-05-12 to build two six-unit cubesats for a space science mission funded by the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipJun 8, 2021Blue Canyon Technologies names new CEO

LeoLabs gathers data in Alaska with the Poker Flats radar operated by SRI International on behalf of the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipApr 22, 2021LeoLabs declares Costa Rica Space Radar operational

The National Science Foundation held a call with reporters on 2021-04-08 to discuss the types of climate science it supports.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralApr 22, 2021NASA and the new urgency of climate change

The National Science Foundation would receive $10,200,000,000 in the proposed budget, a 20% increase from 2021, including continued funding for work on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Mentioned as: national science foundationNarrative FinancialApr 9, 2021Biden administration proposes $24.7 billion budget for NASA in 2022

The National Science Foundation estimates cleanup costs for the Arecibo site to be between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000 spread over fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralMar 8, 2021NSF report estimates Arecibo cleanup cost at up to $50 million

The fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill enacted in December required the National Science Foundation to report within 60 days about the cause of the collapse of the 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope and future plans for the site.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralMar 8, 2021NSF report estimates Arecibo cleanup cost at up to $50 million

Stoke Space Technologies received a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation in 2020 for an integrated propulsion solution to enable reusable upper stages.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipFeb 25, 2021Stoke raises seed round to work on fully reusable rockets

The report accompanying the fiscal year 2021 spending bill directed the National Science Foundation to prepare a study on Arecibo’s collapse and cleanup efforts and on the process for determining whether to establish comparable technology at the site along with associated cost estimates.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralJan 1, 2021Puerto Rico government supports rebuilding Arecibo

The National Science Foundation announced on 2020-11-19 that it will decommission the Arecibo radio telescope after engineering analyses showed the telescope was at risk of collapse.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralDec 1, 2020NASA weighing options for future planetary radar capabilities after Arecibo

The National Science Foundation announced on 2020-11-19 that it will perform a controlled decommissioning of the giant radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralNov 19, 2020NSF to decommission Arecibo radio telescope

Orbit Fab received a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a cooperative satellite docking system.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralNov 17, 2020Orbit Fab to launch first fuel tanker in 2021 with Spaceflight

TCarta developed new machine learning-based bathymetric mapping technologies including two software packages and commercial application of NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationTechnical ProductOct 27, 2020TCarta develops AI-based commercial bathymetric mapping technologies

USGIF developed the GEOINT learning modules as part of a National Science Foundation-funded GeoTech Center award and adapted those modules for high school teaching.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipOct 20, 2020USGIF initiates certification program in Geospatial for high school students

The National Science Foundation selected a group led by the University of Central Florida, with Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises Inc., to run the Arecibo telescope in 2018.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralAug 12, 2020Arecibo radio observatory damaged

Carbice has won more than $3,000,000 in Small Business Innovation Research grants from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the National Science Foundation.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationOrg RelationshipJun 22, 2020Thermal materials startup Carbice finds foothold in space industry

Orbit Fab received a $250,000 award from America’s Seed Fund, a grant program run by the National Science Foundation, on 2020-03-31.

Mentioned as: National Science FoundationNarrative GeneralMar 31, 2020Orbit Fab gets award to test satellite refueling technology
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