This is a $149,840 firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Foils, a for-profit small business, for the development of large silicon carbide grids for use as X-ray microcalorimeter blocking filters. The contract is set aside for total small business participation and has a completion date of February 6, 2025. Photon Foils, operating as a sole proprietorship, has previously received...
This is a $849,999.00 Firm Fixed Price federal contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Foils, a small business sole proprietorship based in Ventura, California. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and is designated as a total small business set-aside. The contract is for the development of large silicon carbide grids for X-ray microcalorimeter blocking filters, building...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Foils, a small business registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). The $749,909 contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and is designated as a total small business set-aside. The contract is for Phase II research and development of silicon carbide grid fabrication and vibration qualification, building on an earlier Phase I SBIR contract....
This is a $131,461 firm fixed price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Photon Foils, a small business registered as a sole proprietorship. The contract is for research and development on silicon carbide grid fabrication and vibration qualification, which will support the use of silicon carbide components in X-ray telescopes and laboratory instruments. Photon Foils has previously been awarded two additional SBIR contracts from NASA for related work on silicon...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Photon Foils, a small business. The $124,970.00 contract is for Photon Foils to develop single-crystal silicon carbide grid supports for large-area X-ray microcalorimeter entrance filters under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The silicon carbide grids are expected to have over 3 times higher thermal conductance and higher strength compared to existing...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was issued to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to develop new optical interference coatings with low film stress and high reflectance in the x-ray band from 0.1 to 10 keV. These coatings are critically needed for the construction of lightweight, nested x-ray telescopes with high collecting area and sub-arcsecond resolution for the Lynx mission, a...
This is a $1,856,781.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for the development of high-reflectance, high-resolution X-ray mirrors for future NASA astronomy missions such as Lynx. The key objectives are to develop optimized iridium-based interference coatings for the 0.1-10 keV energy band and mitigate coating-stress-induced substrate deformations in thin-shell...
This is a $124,617.00 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I research contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer specializing in advanced materials and components for aerospace, defense, and space applications. The contract is focused on developing a material system combining Beryllium-Aluminum alloy (Be-38Al), electroless nickel plating, and single point diamond turning to create precision X-ray grazing optical...
This is a $124,967.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Polaronyx Inc., a small business manufacturer of laser 3D manufacturing solutions and other laser micro structuring technologies. The contract is for the development of a cost-effective laser additive manufacturing system for SiC mirror support architecture, with integrated functions of additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, in-process...
This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...