The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $753,136 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Air Squared, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract supports the development of technologies for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) on Mars, focused on collecting and pressurizing gases from the Martian atmosphere for eventual oxygen production using solid oxide electrolysis. This builds on Air Squared's prior SBIR and other federal...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to TDA Research, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract, valued at $754,959.00, is for the development of a small, lightweight, and portable oxygen generator based on vacuum swing adsorption technology to support long-duration manned space missions. The objective is to produce a prototype that can deliver...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract, valued at one hundred fifty-six thousand forty-five dollars ($156,045), was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Blueshift LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies, for the development of feed and removal technologies of regolith for oxygen extraction. As a total small business set-aside, this firm fixed-price purchase order supports NASA's SBIR Program goals of...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lunar Resources, Inc. for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project titled "Molten Regolith Electrolysis: The Extraction of Oxygen from Lunar Regolith". The $124,997.00 contract is focused on research and development of technologies to extract oxygen from lunar regolith using molten regolith electrolysis. As a Phase I SBIR award, this...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lunar Resources, Inc., a small business, for research related to molten regolith electrolysis - the extraction of oxygen from lunar regolith. The contract, valued at $124,951.00, is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I effort. Lunar Resources, Inc. has previously received SBIR, STTR, and Other Transaction Agreement awards from...
This is a $166,499.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Analytical Scientific Products LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the development of a lunar dust filtration and collection system. The contract is a firm fixed price purchase order with a period of performance through January 25, 2023. This SBIR Phase I contract is part of NASA's efforts to advance lunar...
The U.S. government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract to Blueshift LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies, for the development of a "Multi-Stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor." This $899,952.00 Firm Fixed Price contract was set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of June 26, 2026. Blueshift LLC is a small business specializing in advanced manufacturing...
This federal contract award to Air Squared, LLC is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project to develop a lunar contaminant tolerant scroll vacuum pump (CTSVP). The total ceiling value of the contract is $749,916.00. The contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and is a firm fixed price definitive contract. This CTSVP research and development effort builds on Air Squared's past work on specialized pump and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,995.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Pioneer Astronautics, doing business as Pioneer Invention, a small business space technology company. The contract is to demonstrate the Liquid Sorption Pump (LSP), a new technology for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Martian atmosphere to support in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) systems. The LSP uses cooled propanol to absorb CO2 from the...
This is a $149,999.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (a NASA organization) to Lunar Resources, Inc., a small business, under the SBIR Phase I program. The contract is for the development of an "immortal molten regolith electrolysis anode for oxygen and metals extraction from lunar regolith" as part of NASA's efforts to facilitate sustainable human presence on the Moon. The contract has a completion date of February 6, 2025 and was set...