NASA Grants IDR 57.8 Billion Funds To Support Sustainable Research

NASA provides grants for student research projects (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - The United States Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) provided a grant of US$3.7 million (Rp57.8 billion). These funds are provided to support several scientific research projects.

NASA says they have donated the funds to eleven teams from various institutions. The granting of these funds is part of a Bridge Program created by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

NASA Senior Advisor Shahra Lambert said that this program is one way to bring proficient workers. With this program, students will participate directly in various studies.

We are improving fair access to NASA for the best and brightest talents in our country. This will help NASA develop a diverse and capable workforce to improve our understanding of the cosmos," Lambert said.

Various research projects that NASA chose are quite diverse. The eleven projects discussed research to reduce environmental pollution inspired by planetary science and the SJU-NASA ARC Bridge Seed Program.

In addition, there is research by Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar, development of antireflection layers for NASA's future missions, studying Earth science using CubeSats, as well as research on space materials and microbiomes.

Next, there are observations of the nature of outer space through the Halobacterium Salinarum NRC-1, observations of ice water and isotopes using the LIDAR Radiometer Heterodyne, and remote sensing to predict an outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases.

Finally, the research that will be funded by NASA is the construction of a diverse, sustainable, and powerful STEM network as well as the exploration of technology through electronic additive manufacturing to produce stretched and gas sensors.