The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The $149,212 contract is for the development of a photon counting sensor for in-space debris detection, with a completion date of August 21, 2024. Astrobotic, a manufacturer of space robotics and planetary mission technology, has...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract award to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $149,974 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a combined high-speed, thermal, and event camera imaging sensor to support plume-surface interaction studies. As a small business set-aside, this contract is part of the SBIR program, which provides...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $149,782 Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase I contract to 2PI Inc., doing business as 2PI Optics, a for-profit technology company based in Newton, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of a chip-scale, large-aperture, ultra-wide-angle LIDAR system. This is a Firm Fixed Price contract with a completion date of September 2, 2024. The contract was a total small business set-aside, indicating the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective is to develop a 1550-nanometer sensitive photon-counting detector array with integrated time-tagging electronics, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA missions such as the Lunar Laser Communication...
Astrobotic Technology Inc., doing business as Astrobotic, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $749,997 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The firm fixed price contract is for research and development of an Ultra-Compact Standalone Visual Relative Navigation system under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Place of performance will be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The contract period of performance spans...
This is a $99,973 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc., a small business that specializes in custom light control solutions. The contract is for the development of a real-time range sensing video camera for human/robot interfacing. This supports NASA's research and development efforts in areas like human monitoring systems for spacecraft. The contract is set aside for small...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, on August 31, 2020. The contract is for the development of a "High Efficiency Wide Bandwidth Balanced Detector/Preamplifier at 2 Micron Wavelength" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The potential value of the contract is $124,982.00, and the period of performance is from the award...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nova Photonics Inc., a for-profit research and development company specializing in optics and photonics technologies. The $124,957 firm-fixed-price contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I project focused on the development of a high-throughput, pushbroom imaging spectrometer for planetary science applications. The contract leverages programmable,...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based small business. The $149,986.00 contract is for Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which will fund the development of an ultra-fast smart LIDAR sensor for terrain mapping. Astrobotic has previously conducted SBIR Phase I, II, and III work for NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory on related space...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics and technology company. The $124,214 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract was awarded on July 27, 2018 and is set to be completed by February 25, 2019. The contract aims to investigate Astrobotic's "A-SDR" software-defined reliability product for enabling the reliable use of...