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 federal contract award provides funding for Photonsystems, Inc., a small business, to develop advanced analytical methods and instrumentation for detecting trace levels of chemical and biological contaminants directly on spacecraft and related surfaces. The $124,073 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The proposed methods employ non-contact deep ultraviolet (UV)...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company. The $849,673 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development and production of a photon counting sensor to support in-space debris detection. Axiom Optics Inc., a specialized optical and imaging equipment supplier in Somerville, Massachusetts, was awarded two subcontracts to develop...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nanohmics Inc., a small technology company based in Austin, Texas. The contract, valued at $124,999.00, aims to develop a chip-scale hyperspectral imaging technology for compact UV-VIS hyperspectral cameras suitable for small satellite and CubeSat applications. The technology promises to provide spectral dispersion that is orders of magnitude smaller and...
This $849,408 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to New Integration Photonics, a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The contract is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for the development of an "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION". This contract follows a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $3,010,707.77 grant to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to mature the Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer (CHPS) imaging spectrometer technology for infusion into the Landsat program. The objective is to develop a new generation of smaller, more capable, and less costly instruments to meet or exceed current land imaging capabilities and support the Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program. This three-year program,...
This is a $129,995 fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of specialized optics and electronics based in Hillsboro, Oregon. The contract is for the development of a compact, high-resolution, time-resolved intensified image sensor called the Hybrid Intensified Solid-State Pixelated Anode Detector (ISPAD). This sensor is intended to address the challenges of in-situ planetary instrument development, which...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nanohmics Inc., a for-profit small business organization, to develop a chip-scale, full-frame hyperspectral imaging technology for ultra-compact visible hyperspectral cameras suitable for use on small satellites and CubeSats. The Phase II contract, valued at $755,000.00, builds upon the work conducted during the prior Phase I program, where Nanohmics teamed with the University of Maryland to...
This is a $4,500,000.00 grant award to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of the global aerospace and defense company BAE Systems. The award is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of a Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer for Space (CHPS) to advance spaceborne prism-based imaging spectroscopy of the Earth. The grant supports NASA's balanced science program and its exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research...
This firm fixed price purchase order, with a potential value of one hundred sixty-six thousand three hundred eighty-eight dollars, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Advanced Nanophotonics, LLC. The award is associated with the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I solicitation to develop next generation components for exoplanet detection and characterization technologies. As a total small business set aside, the contract...