Assistance program
Space Operations
$220.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Project Grants;Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements or Contracts);Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements);Project Grants (Discretionary);Project Grants (Fellowships);Project Grants (for Collaborative Design of Curriculum, Production of;Project Grants (for Specified Projects);Project Grants (Including Individual Awards);Project Grants (Including Travel Grants)
- CFDA number
- 43.007
- What it does
- NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate is the heart of the agency’s space exploration efforts, enabling missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond through communication and navigation, launch services, research capabilities, and crew health and support. SOMD manages NASA crewed space operations in and beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) and commercial launch services. SOMD operates, and maintains exploration systems, develops and operates communications, and space transportation systems, and performs scientific research to enable sustained human exploration. In addition, SOMD is responsible for managing the space transportation services for NASA or NASA-sponsored payloads that require orbital launch, and the Agency's space communications and navigation services supporting all NASA space systems.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Authorized by
- Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
- Program site
- https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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