Grant Solicitations
Recently released SMD solicitations:
- NASA International Year of Astronomy Student Ambassadors Program - application deadline is September 29, 2008
- Stand Alone Mission of Opportunity Notice (SALMON) Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
- NASA Lunar Science Institute call for proposals. NOIs due June 27, and proposals due 2008 August 29. For more information see http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/.
NLSI call PDF - ROSES-2008: Released Feb. 15th
- Opportunity to join the FORCAST and GREAT science teams for first-light observations on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Responses are due August 15, 2008.
Draft Standard Announcement of Opportunity for PI Led Missions
Table of individual science programs to which you can propose
Recent Amendments to ROSES 2008
- New proposal opportunity for Concept Studies for Human Tended Suborbital Science. Notices of Intent are due August 6, 2008. Proposals are due October 8, 2008.
- New proposal opportunity: D.9: Kepler Guest Observer - Cycle 1
- Revised text for: Swift Guest Investigator - Cycle 5
- Final text for Living With a Star Targeted Research and Technology (Appendices B.6 and B.7)
- New proposal opportunity: Guest Investigator Studies with Communication Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS). NOIs are due September 19, and proposals October 17, 2008.
- Changes in proposal due dates for A.21, A.26, A.27, & B.9 and NOI due date for C.17 because of NSPIRES being down. See Table 2 for the current due dates.
PDF Version - New proposal opportunity for D.10 "MOST" U.S. Guest Observer Program – Cycle 1; NOIs are due August 29, 2008 and proposals October 6, 2008.
- New due date for Ocean Salinity Science Team: NOIs are due January 16, and Proposals March 18, 2009.
- New proposal opportunities for U.S. Participating Investigators in Earth Science (A.29) and in Lunar and Planetary Science (C.25). Notices of Intent and proposals are due October 15 and December 2, 2008, respectively.
Request for information (RFI):
NASA’s Office of Education has released an RFI for of a distributed university-based, student-led satellite development initiative, the American Student Moon Orbiter (ASMO). They are seeking input from appropriate officials and decision-makers from colleges, universities, and potential industry contributors with experience in university-level, student-led flight projects focusing on spaceflight satellite and/or payload development, payload integration, spacecraft and/or payload launch, mission operations, or scientific data analysis. For more information please visit http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/RFI.
Future SMD solicitations:
We will do our best to keep you informed about future funding opportunities so that you can better prepare.
Please click below for a current list of the future SMD solicitations.