This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Dioxide Materials, Inc., a for-profit small business. The objective of the contract is to adapt Dioxide's carbon dioxide electrolyzers, which are being developed under funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), for use in NASA missions. The contract is focused on developing "room temperature electrolyzers for oxygen...
This is a $749,283 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Reactive Innovations, LLC, a small business located in Westford, MA. The contract is for the development of a lightweight electrochemical reactor to collect and pressurize carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere, which is a key technology needed to enable in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future missions to the Moon and Mars. The Phase I...
This is a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to TDA Research, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract supports the development of a compact, lightweight, advanced sorbent-based carbon dioxide (CO2) compressor system to recover high-purity CO2 from the Martian atmosphere. This technology is intended to benefit future human exploration and...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to TDA Research, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The purpose of the contract is to develop a highly efficient system for separating and re-circulating unreacted carbon dioxide from solid oxide electrolyzers, which can produce oxygen and other resources needed to support human exploration of Mars and return of Martian samples. The specific...
Mosaic Materials Inc., a small business, was awarded a $122,083 firm-fixed price purchase order contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop a metal-organic framework (MOF) adsorbent material for efficient removal of carbon dioxide from confined atmospheres, such as in spacecraft. This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract supports NASA's research into new technologies for controlling carbon dioxide levels during...
This $1,124,972 federal contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to P H Matter LLC, a small disadvantaged business, to conduct research and development on critical subsystems and solid carbon repurposing for advancements in carbon dioxide reduction. The contract is a Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase II action with a completion date of March 26, 2025. As a small business, P H Matter LLC specializes in developing nanostructured materials and sustainable energy solutions,...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to P H Matter LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the development of an Automated Carbon Formation Reactor. The $375,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract supports the research, development, and testing of technologies that could enable the conversion of carbon dioxide into value-added products for space applications. As a Phase III SBIR award, this effort...
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 $750,000 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. Under this contract, TDA Research is developing a highly efficient carbon dioxide (CO2) removal system for closed-loop spacecraft cabin air revitalization during deep space missions. The technology is based on a proprietary strontium-exchanged...
This is a firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Twelve Benefit Corporation, a small business, for $112,068. The contract is for research and development of a carbon dioxide-to-ethylene conversion technology using a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer. The goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing polyethylene from CO2, water, and electricity in a two-step process, with the potential for in-situ...