This is a $124,993 firm fixed-price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Loadpath, LLC, a small business. The contract is for the development of a Modular Extendable Terrestrial Array (META) - a robust, structurally efficient solar array system that can autonomously deploy on the Martian surface to support manned missions. Loadpath leveraged its prior experience developing lightweight, high-power solar arrays for...
This is a $124,933 federal contract award from the NASA Shared Services Center to Loadpath, LLC, a small business developer of mission-critical solutions for space infrastructure. The contract is for the Structural Origami Array (SOAR), an extremely high-performance deployable solar array system capable of delivering 200W to 1kW+ of power output while exceeding state-of-the-art packaging efficiencies. The SOAR system is designed to address the increasing power consumption needs of small...
<p>This is a $315,000 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Loadpath, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for the development of a deployable boom to meet the requirements of a solar coronagraph. The contract is part of the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) ROSES-2022 major program and has a period of performance through July 31, 2026. The contract has no set-aside designation.</p>
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nexolve Holding Company, LLC, a small business located in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract is for the development of a Lightweight Deployable Integrable Antenna (LIDIA) Array, including additional materials stackup testing and large-scale prototype work. The contract has a firm fixed price of $494,989.00 and a completion date of...
This is a $149,995.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Loadpath, LLC, a small business, for DRAG REMOVAL BY AUTONOMOUS GRAPPLE services under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract has a completion date of December 5, 2018. Loadpath, LLC is a developer of mission-critical solutions for next-generation space infrastructure, including software, hardware, and research and development...
This is a $10,892,134.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Loadpath, LLC, a small business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract is for the "Integrated Design Analysis & Testing of Space Structures" under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) VS-07-03 CALL 0020. The award has a period of performance from November 23, 2010, to November 23, 2018. Loadpath, LLC is a for-profit limited liability company specializing in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,027 firm fixed price purchase order to Apech Labs LLC, a Buffalo, New York-based small business, for research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation. The contract calls for Apech Labs to develop a Regolith Immune Linear Actuator Family to support NASA's goals of enabling surface exploration of airless bodies like the Moon and asteroids. As a total small business...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to L'Garde, Inc., a small business manufacturer of inflatable and deployable space structures. The $124,965.00 contract is for a Lightweight and Low Stow Volume Solar Concentrator for Lunar Based In-Situ Resource Utilization, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. As a small business set-aside contract, this award aligns with L'Garde's expertise...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $899,612 firm-fixed-price contract to Gendell Associates P.A., a small business doing business as Folditure, for the development of the Sunflake Extra Linear technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract, with a period of performance through July 4, 2026, is a follow-on to previous SBIR Phase I and II awards to Gendell Associates for the Sunflake Solar Array and Ultra...
Loadpath, LLC was awarded a $599,944 definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to improve Veritrek ROM software in support of future missions. The firm fixed price contract is a Phase III award under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and has a performance period from July 31, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Place of performance will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract has a total small business set aside...