The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to Air Squared, Inc., a small business, to develop a highly efficient scroll-driven vapor compression refrigerator/freezer system for use in spacecraft. The $124,051 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract aims to create a lightweight, compact, and efficient storage solution that can operate in microgravity, addressing limitations of previous thermoelectric systems used on the...
This is a $100,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Air Squared, LLC, a small business based in Thornton, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a Vapor Compression Refrigeration System for Cold Storage on Spacecraft, as part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. Air Squared has previously received other federal contracts and grants, including work with NASA, the Department of Energy,...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Air Squared, LLC, a small business, for the development of a Vapor Compression Refrigeration System for Cold Storage on Spacecraft. The contract has a ceiling value of $88,000.00 and was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. Air Squared has previously received SBIR and other federal awards from agencies such as the Department of Energy and United...
This is a $124,994.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Air Squared, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of an oil-free spinning scroll for a multiple-stage isopentane heat pump. Air Squared is an industry leader in oil-free scroll compressor and vacuum pump design and manufacturing, with a...
This federal contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Air Squared, LLC, a small business contractor. The contract is for the development of a scroll compressor technology to be used in the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument, which produces oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. The contract has a total ceiling value of $607,000.00 and a completion date of April 30, 2018. Air Squared has previously worked on federal contracts and...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Air Squared, Inc., a small business contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $124,673 Phase I contract supports the development of a Multi-Stage Scroll Compressor (MSSC) designed to reliably capture and pressurize carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Mars atmosphere over an extended period of autonomous operation. The compressor system is intended to support future...
NASA has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Mainstream Engineering Corporation, a small business manufacturer, to develop an oil-less vapor-compression refrigeration compressor technology capable of operating at high temperatures up to 400 K. This compressor technology is intended to meet NASA's need for space exploration vehicles to reject waste heat to high-temperature heat sinks, particularly for an equatorial lunar mission profile. Mainstream...
This is a $124,216 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Air Squared, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a Cryogenic Spinning Scroll Pump (CSSP) capable of pumping liquid methane or oxygen at flows of 8-10 lbs/sec. The CSSP is intended to satisfy the propulsion feed system needs stated in SBIR research topic Z10.02: Methane...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Air Squared, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The $124,152.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a Spinning Scroll Boost Compressor, which is a specialized aerospace technology. As a Total Small Business set-aside, this contract is part of the SBIR program, which provides funding to small businesses to...
This is a $124,994 firm-fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. to develop an oil-less vapor-compression refrigeration compressor technology that can operate at high temperatures and high lift, to meet NASA's need for space exploration vehicles to reject waste heat to high temperature heat sinks. Cornerstone Research Group, a small business, is the prime...