Definitive Contract AG82BHC130018

This definitive contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to ATK Space Systems LLC, a division of Northrop Grumman Corporation, for $7.579 million. The objective is to design, prototype, and test the Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology, a 10-kilowatt robotic deployable solar panel system for providing electrical power at the South Pole of the lunar surface. This addresses NASA's solicitation seeking proposals to design and...

This is a federal contract award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Solaero Technologies Corp., a for-profit manufacturer of solar cells, solar panels, and related components for aerospace applications. The contract, valued at $5,439,349.00, is for Solaero to develop advanced solar cell, solar array, and related technologies that will provide greater than 60 kW/m3 stowed power density, greater than 200 W/kg specific power, and improved robustness against natural and man-made...

This is a $15,004,784.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Solaero Technologies Corp., a manufacturer of solar cells, solar panels, and related components for the aerospace industry. The contract, titled "SSPACE: SPACE SOLAR POWER ADVANCEMENT FOR CONSTELLATION-CLASS EXPANSION STAR", has a period of performance ending on December 19, 2029. Solaero Technologies has previously received prime and subcontract awards from...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $4,499,703 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Solaero Technologies Corp., a manufacturer of solar cells and panels for aerospace applications. The contract, titled "NEXT GENERATION SPM," has a period of performance through May 30, 2025 and is not set aside for any specific business type. Solaero Technologies has previously provided solar array components and related services to AFRL, NASA, and other government agencies for programs such...

This federal contract award, with ID FA945314C0372, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of The Boeing Company. The $7,149,694.00 cost-sharing contract is for the development of ultra-high efficiency multijunction space solar cell structures approaching 40% AM0 efficiency. This aligns with AFRL's research and development initiatives focused on advancing space solar power generation technologies. There is no set-aside designation associated with...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Altius Space Machines, Inc. for the development of the Solar Cube Heliogyro, a cubesat propulsion system that uses solar pressure as its sole means of propulsion and attitude control. The $124,812 firm-fixed-price contract will fund the fabrication and feasibility testing of a blade assembly to demonstrate that a sail blade of sufficient area can stow and...

This is a $3,425,836.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) to develop very high performance solar array technology for use in extreme environments, such as missions to Jupiter. The contract is the result of a proposal submitted by APL in response to NASA's Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2015 solicitation. The...

This firm-fixed-price definitive contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Solaero Technologies Corp, a for-profit manufacturer of solar cells, solar panels, and related components for the aerospace industry. The contract is for the delivery of solar array panels for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) spacecraft, which is targeted to launch in 2022-2023 into a sun-synchronous polar orbit. The potential...

<p>The U.S. government awarded a $599,250.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to AEC Able Engineering Company Incorporated for the development of an Electrostatically Clean Solar Array (ESCA) System. This contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and was awarded on December 19, 2003, with a final completion date of November 30, 2005. The contract was performed in Goleta, CA.</p>

This $6,564,200.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Astrobotic Technology Inc. by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to design, prototype, and test a lunar vertical solar array technology (LVSAT) system. The LVSAT system is designed to provide 10 kilowatts of electrical power and be robotically deployable on the lunar surface, particularly at the South Pole, to support NASA's planned lunar landing and base missions beginning in 2024. The...