This federal contract award, valued at $199,622.69, was issued by the Shared Services Center (part of NASA) to Utah State University (USU) through a cooperative agreement. The contract aims to advance the technical readiness level of active thermal control methods for CubeSats and miniature cryogenic coolers, enabling new CubeSat missions to observe molecular gases in the upper atmosphere. The 24-month project will combine USU's expertise in spacecraft systems, electro-optical instrumentation,...
This is a $124,998.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act), a for-profit manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The contract is for the development of a Thermal Management System for Lunar Ice Miners under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides funding for research and development by small...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AW41A, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Utah State University (USU) through a Cooperative Agreement. The project, titled "Integrated Solar-Panel Antenna Array for CubeSats (ISAAC)", aims to develop a new subsystem technology for CubeSats - a compact, high-gain, low-power, lightweight X-band antenna array that can be printed directly on the cover glass of solar cells. This will enhance the CubeSat's...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (Act), a small business manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The $749,998.00 Firm Fixed Price award is for the "SMALLSAT SWARM SPARSE APERTURE SAR FOR RECON AND SURVEILLANCE (SSSASAFRAS)" project, which is categorized as a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research...
This is a $200,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to develop the Cooling, Pointing and Annealing Satellite (CAPSAT), a 3U CubeSat technology demonstrator. The project will demonstrate an active liquid cooling system, jitter control using piezoelectric actuators, and a single photon annealing technique to extend the lifetime of sensors for quantum entanglement experiments in space. This is a...
This federal contract award to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business based in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract, valued at $748,848, will fund the development of a novel deployable, two-phase heat transfer radiator that can adaptively adjust its view factor to provide passive thermal control for spacecraft. The radiator leverages the change...
This federal contract award is for the development of highly integrated terahertz (THz) receiver systems suitable for deployment on CubeSats. The contract, valued at $199,989.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) under a cooperative agreement. The goal is to advance JPL's state-of-the-art Schottky diode receiver technology and integrate it into compact, low-power systems that can be used for Earth observing, planetary...
This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a small business based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The contract, valued at $124,984.00, is for the development of flexible thermal management solutions, such as flexible thermal straps and loop heat pipes, that can accommodate specific mission requirements. This contract was awarded under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which...
This is a $272,542.99 contract awarded by NASA to Arizona State University (ASU) for the development of temperature-modulated radiative coatings for dynamic thermal management of spacecraft. The goal is to create coatings that can help regulate a spacecraft's temperature by selectively emitting or reflecting infrared radiation based on the temperature. The contract covers four areas: coating design, sample fabrication and characterization, metrology development, and device-level testing. This...
Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) was awarded a $124,999 firm fixed price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I solicitation. The contract calls for ACT to develop a novel modular cooling system for advanced power systems to support future deep space exploration missions. As a total small business set-aside awarded through the SBIR program, the contract aims to optimize thermal...
This contract award to Utah State University (USU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is for the development of a thermal management system known as the Active Thermal Architecture for Cryogenic Optical Instruments (ATACOI). The ATACOI system is intended to enable new CubeSat-based Earth science and heliophysics missions by advancing technologies for deployable solar tracking radiators, rotational fluid unions, and vibration/thermal isolation of cryogenic detectors. This 24-month, $399,228 cooperative agreement aims to mature the technology from a starting readiness level of 3-4 to a proto-flight system capable of supporting advanced CubeSat payloads. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. This contract builds on prior NASA-funded work, including the Advanced Cryogenic Cryocooler System (ACCS) project, and leverages USU's expertise in spacecraft systems, optics, vibration management, and thermal control, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.