SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK: VOLUME IV
NASA RESOURCES 1969-1978
 

Table 5-25. Seventeen Largest Awards to Educational and Nonprofit Institutions During FY 1978*(in millions of dollars)

 

Institution

Award Description

Award Number

FY 1978 Award

Cumulative Awards

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University of Chile - Santiago, Chile

Maintenance and operation of minitrack facilities in Chile.

NAS5-1925

4.8

31.0

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Technical support of orbiter avionics and software development.

NAS9-13809

4.6

16.7

National Academy of Sciences

Administration of NASA's resident research associateship program

NASW-2567

3.9

20.5

Smithsonian Institution

Conducting of an optical satellite tracking program.

NGR9-15002

2.5

64.4

Smithsonian Institution

Design, development, and operations of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory Mission B X-ray telescope.

NAS8-30751

2.1

4.5

University of California - San Diego

Space telescope scientific investigation using a faint object spectrograph.

NAS5-24463

1.9

(new award)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Abstracting and indexing publications and dissemination of scientific and technical information.

NASW-2532

1.7

7.8

University of New Hampshire

Hardware phase of the solar gamma ray experiment for the Solar Maximum Mission.

NAS5-23761

1.5

2.8

Universities Space Research Association

Operation of the Lunar Science Institute.

NSR9-51001

1.4

8.8

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

An imaging spectrometric observatory for Spacelab Mission 1 experiment.

NAS8-32569

1.3

1.6

European Space Agency

Spacelab high rate demultiplexer and unit tester/simulator.

NAS8-32955

1.3

(new award)

Harvard University

Spectroheliometer experiment for Solar Maximum Mission.

NAS5-23494

1.3

4.3

New Mexico State University - Las Cruces

Engineering telemetry design and control of sounding rockets.

NAS5-24241

1.2

1.4

Purdue University

Research in remote sensing of agriculture, earth resources, and man's environment.

NAS9-15466

1.2

(new award)

California State University - Chico

Provide personnel materials and services for NASA Space Science Education Project.

NASW-2835

1.1

3.8

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Experiment to perform X-ray astronomy on the SAS-C spacecraft.

NAS5-11450

1.0

11.3

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Development and evaluation of a fault-tolerant multiprocessor computer.

NAS1-15336

1.0

(new award)

* Awards of one million dollars or more. Excludes Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Source: NASA, Annual Procurement Report (Fiscal year 1978).


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