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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

aerospaceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2006 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2006-12-01·LATEST ACTION2026-03-03·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_NNM07AB07C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

SOLAR B X RAY TELESCOPE PHASE E

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Continuation funding for the Hinode X-ray Telescope, a solar physics observatory operated since 2006.

Sub-sectors
solar-physics-researchspace-observatorymission-operations
Why this matters

Continued operation provides space-weather intelligence vital for protecting critical U.S. satellites and power-grid infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-11. Cost: $0.013769.

Period of performance
Start
2006-12-01
End
2026-06-30
Status
expired6 days ago
Sources

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