This is a $749,941 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to L'Garde, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in inflatable and deployable space structures. The contract is for the development of a lightweight and low stow volume solar concentrator for in-situ resource utilization on the lunar surface, supporting NASA's exploration goals. As an SBIR Phase II award, this contract builds upon prior Phase I research....
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to L'Garde, Inc., a small business manufacturer of inflatable and deployable space structures. The $124,965.00 contract is for a Lightweight and Low Stow Volume Solar Concentrator for Lunar Based In-Situ Resource Utilization, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. As a small business set-aside contract, this award aligns with L'Garde's expertise...
This is a $30,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Opterus Research and Development, Inc., a small business manufacturer of critical spacecraft components and deployable structures. The contract is for the development of a solar sail boom architecture in support of NASA's SCOPE mission, a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III effort. As a Phase III SBIR award, this contract represents the transition of Opterus' prior...
This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc. (Deployable Space Systems, Inc. Division), a small business. The contract is for the research and development of a next-generation, ultra-compact, and lightweight solar array system with extremely high specific power. This innovation is intended to enable higher-powered NASA science and solar electric propulsion (SEP) missions, as well as other...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Redwire Space Solutions, LLC (formerly Roccor, LLC) for the development of a deployable spacecraft boom technology called the Triangular Rollable and Collapsible Boom (TRAC-Boom). The contract, valued at $124,939, aims to address the NASA's concern about the creep and stress relaxation behavior of the TRAC-Boom's bonded "ridge-joint" by reinforcing...
This is a firm fixed-price Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency, to Tentguild Engineering Co. The contract, valued at $729,793.00, is for the development and validation of a photovoltaic (PV) array design with unique and enabling characteristics, including the ability to be smoothly deployed from compact stowage with a total PV surface area up to and beyond 4,000 square meters. The design utilizes flexible PV...
This is a $906,079 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Opterus Research and Development, Inc., a small business manufacturer of aerospace technologies. The contract is for the development of "High Strain Composite Booms for Sampling, Mobility and Manipulation" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. Opterus, which has received numerous SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $799,216 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Gendell Associates P.A., doing business as Folditure, a small business manufacturer of innovative folding furniture and space-saving technologies. The contract, awarded on May 19, 2022, is for the development of the Sunflake Solar Array and Ultra Compact Tripod Tower (UCTT) technologies, which have applications in both terrestrial and...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,978 firm fixed price contract to Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a division of Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc., for the development of a high-performance, ultra-compact solar array system for use on NASA and non-NASA space missions. This SBIR Phase I contract will fund research and development of a tensioned membrane blanket solar array that can be stowed in a very small volume, allowing larger solar arrays to...
Roccor LLC was awarded a $124,983 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a composite trussed TRAC (T-TRAC) boom system for mid-size (~1,000 m2) solar sails. The T-TRAC boom is an advancement of Roccor's prior TRAC boom technology, scaling up the size and length while reducing weight through material redistribution and cross-section modifications. This will enable a more than 5x increase in structural...