This is a $125,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Controls, LLC, a small business, for the development of an Energy and Velocity Analyzer for Distributions of Electric Rockets. The contract is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research and development effort. Plasma Controls specializes in plasma processing and electric propulsion technologies, and has provided similar products...
This is a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Controls, LLC, a small business based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The contract is for the development of an iodine-compatible hollow cathode for use in Hall-effect thrusters, which are a type of electric propulsion system. Current state-of-the-art electron emitters and mounting hardware materials are not compatible with...
This is a $225,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Space Foundry Inc., a small business equipment manufacturer that provides hardware and printing solutions for in-space manufacturing and in-situ resource utilization. The contract is for the development of plasma jet printing technology, which Space Foundry Inc. has previously researched under SBIR Phase I and II awards...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Firm Fixed Price, Definitive Contract to Plasma Controls, LLC, a small business, to provide a Plasma Environment Simulator for On-Orbit Satellite Assembly and Maintenance (OSAM) Operations. The $240,404.00 contract was awarded on July 5, 2022 and is set to be completed by December 5, 2022. This contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, specifically the STTR Phase I research type....
This is a $199,896.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Processes, LLC, a small business, under the SBIR Program Phase III for the SPECTRE 100 MN THRUSTER. The contract has a completion date of March 16, 2022 and involves research, development, testing, and manufacturing services for spacecraft propulsion systems. Plasma Processes, an AS9100 certified company, has previously conducted research...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $383,507 firm fixed price definitive contract to Plasma Processes, LLC as part of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase III Action. The contract, numbered E014049-100MN Thuster Enhancement Program, is for research services to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama from December 13, 2022 through June 12, 2023. The place of performance and total small business set aside designation indicate this is a 100...
This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Controls, LLC, a small business located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The contract is for the development of hollow cathode electron sources based on a novel inorganic electron emitting material. The goal is to create a cathode design that can provide equivalent electron emission to existing materials at lower...
This $124,999.00 firm fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Processes, LLC, a small business manufacturer of engineered materials solutions. The contract was issued under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and is for the development of "dispersion strengthened refractory metal claddings" for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) applications. Plasma Processes has previously supported...
This federal contract award is for the development of a new type of plasma-based flow control actuator by CU Aerospace, a for-profit limited liability company, and its partner the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The actuator uses a high-voltage electrode that arcs to a cylindrical grounded electrode within a magnetic field, producing an arc plasma with a Lorentz force that creates a plasma disc. This is intended to enhance mixing and flow attachment across adverse pressure gradients,...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Geoplasma Research, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the Additive Manufacturing of Refractory Metal Alloys for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Components, with a potential value of $124,999. The contract was awarded on August 19, 2019 and is set to be completed by February 18, 2020. The contract is a...