Definitive Contract N6134016C0028

This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) is for the development of a methodology to use aerodynamic torque to desaturate reaction wheels on CubeSat platforms. CubeSats are a common small satellite design, and this contract aims to address the challenge of reaction wheel saturation, which can lead to a loss of control for CubeSat missions. The proposed approach leverages aerodynamic forces in low-Earth orbit to periodically reorient the CubeSat...

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...

Attocube Systems AG, a German manufacturer of precision nanopositioning equipment, has been awarded a $12,213 firm fixed price purchase order by NASA's Shared Services Center to deliver a motion controller in support of aerospace research programs. The award does not include any set aside designations and calls for completion by June 2023. Attocube will provide the specialized equipment from its facilities in Germany as the prime contractor. No major subcontractors were specified. Attocube has...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Gener8, LLC, doing business as Gener8 Inc., a small business manufacturer of medical devices and engineering services. The $749,982 fixed-price contract is for the design and fabrication of an Integrated Waveguide Optical Gyroscope (IWOG) that can be used in very small Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) with near-tactical grade performance, higher...

This is a $295,870.26 NASA research grant awarded to Cornell University to develop a mathematical model and prototype for a new "flux pinning" technology that could enable non-contacting actuation and manipulation of spacecraft components in space. The grant aims to advance this technology from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 to TRL 7, including constructing testbeds to validate the theoretical model and demonstrating the technology on CubeSat platforms. If successful, this could...

This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, an institution of higher education, for the Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer (UNITE) CubeSat project. The objective is to develop, build, and fly a 2U CubeSat to make measurements in the lower ionosphere. Key subsystems, including a Globalstar communications system and Langmuir plasma probe, will be procured to help ensure mission success. The $199,195.36...

This contract award is for the CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment (CURIE), a two-element radio interferometer designed to fit within a 6U CubeSat platform that will separate into two 3U CubeSats once in orbit. The principal science objective is to use radio interferometry to study radio burst emissions from solar eruptive events in the inner heliosphere, providing observations important for understanding the heliospheric space weather environment. The $4,145,940.00 grant was awarded by...

This is a $200,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to develop the Cooling, Pointing and Annealing Satellite (CAPSAT), a 3U CubeSat technology demonstrator. The project will demonstrate an active liquid cooling system, jitter control using piezoelectric actuators, and a single photon annealing technique to extend the lifetime of sensors for quantum entanglement experiments in space. This is a...

This is a $124,897 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Exoterra Resource LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Littleton, Colorado, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase I. The contract is for the development of Exoterra's modular xenon micro electric propulsion system, which provides 4-33 millинютонов of thrust and 48-73 kilонньютон-seconds of impulse at an...

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to the prime contractor, Cubrc, Inc. (doing business as Cubrc Inc.), a not-for-profit public benefit corporation. The contract has a potential value of $614,226.06 and a completion date of January 31, 2018. Cubrc Inc. is a leading research, development, testing, and systems integration company specializing in data science, information fusion, chemical and...