CERES - COMPACT RADIATION BELT EXPLORER TO STUDY CHARGES PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN GEOSPACE. THIS NASA NRA ENTIT…

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CERES - COMPACT RADIATION BELT EXPLORER TO STUDY CHARGES PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN GEOSPACE. THIS NASA NRA ENTITLED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES (ROSES) 2012, SOLICITS BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF NASA S SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE (SMD). THIS NRA COVERS ALL ASPECTS OF BASIC AND APPLIED SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: THEORY, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF SMD SCIENCE DATA; AIRCRAFT, STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON, SUBORBITAL ROCKET, INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, AND SUBORBITAL REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE INVESTIGATIONS; DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENT TECHNIQUES SUITABLE FOR FUTURE SMD SPACE MISSIONS; DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE SMD SPACE MISSIONS; DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES RELEVANT TO SMD MISSIONS; DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR AND THE LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF BOTH EXTRATERRESTRIAL SAMPLES RETURNED BY SPACECRAFT, AS WELL AS TERRESTRIAL SAMPLES THAT SUPPORT OR OTHERWISE HELP VERIFY OBSERVATIONS FROM SMD EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE MISSIONS; DETERMINATION OF ATOMIC AND COMPOSITION PARAMETERS NEEDED TO ANALYZE SPACE DATA, AS WELL AS RETURNED SAMPLES FROM THE EARTH OR SPACE; EARTH SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AND FIELD CAMPAIGNS THAT SUPPORT SMD SCIENCE MISSIONS; DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEM MODELS; DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS FOR APPLYING EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH DATA TO SOCIETAL NEEDS; AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICABLE TO SMD OBJECTIVES AND DATA. UNDER THIS CONTRACT, THE CONTRACTOR WILL: PRODUCE SUBSTRATE FOR MOUNTING THE APD PRODUCE CABLE TO CONNECT APD TO MERIT ANALOG ELECTRONICS PROCURE APD FROM HAMAMATSU CHARACTERIZE APD FOR: DEAD LAYER THICKNESS GAIN VS VOLTAGE GAIN VS TEMPERATURE GAIN UNIFORMITY DELIVER APD TO GSFC PARTICIPATE IN THE INTEGRATION OF THE APD MODULE INTO THE MERIT STACK PARTICIPATE IN THE CALIBRATION OF THE APD/SSD STACK SUPPORT THE INTEGRATION OF MERIT INTO CERES SUPPORT FINAL CALIBRATION OF CERES SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS OF THE COMPLETE CERES SPACECRAFT DEVELOP SCIENCE OPERATION CENTER DEVELOP AND DISTRIBUTE SOFTWARE FOR DATA ANALYSIS ANALYZE MERIT DATA AND PUBLISH SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. SUPPORT WEEKLY TELECONFERENCE MEETINGS PROVIDE MONTHLY STATUS REPORTS