This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. for $124,475.00. The contract creates a CubeSat-based on-orbit validation system (CVS) to provide performance data for macro fiber composite (MFC) piezocomposite actuators operating in space. This will mature the precision deployable technology through validation tests in low Earth orbit (LEO). The CVS leverages previous NASA...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Extreme Diagnostics, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract, titled "IN-SPACE DEMONSTRATION OF SUBMICRON ACTIVE OPTOMECHANICAL CONTROL," has a firm fixed price of $124,999.00 and a completion date of February 18, 2020. The contract was awarded on August 19, 2019 and the place of performance is Boulder, CO...
This SBIR Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $785,000.00 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business. The goal is to develop a deployable, offset-fed paraboloidal mesh reflector antenna that can operate onboard small, low-cost satellites like CubeSats at frequencies up to 100 GHz. The contract aims to fully test the performance characteristics of a prototype antenna with an aperture greater...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by NASA to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a precision latching mechanism to enable the deployment and dynamic stability of optical instruments on small satellite platforms. The $754,876 Phase II effort builds on PSI's prior SBIR Phase I work, which demonstrated sub-micron repeatability and stability of the latching technology. During the Phase II, PSI will...
Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. was awarded a $749,975 firm fixed price definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to perform research and development in support of NASA's In-Space Demonstration of Submicron Active Optomechanical Control program. The work will be conducted over a three-year period ending in March 2023 in Boulder, Colorado. As a Phase II award under the Small Business Innovation Research program, this contract builds upon...
This $754,918.00 firm fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD), a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of a 3-dimensional vector electric field instrument that can be accommodated in less than half of a 6U (10x20x30 cm) CubeSat. This instrument is enabled by CTD's deployable composite boom technology, which...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC), a manufacturer of complex composite components, assemblies, and engineering services for the aerospace, defense, and space systems markets. The contract, worth $749,948, focuses on establishing a closed-loop system and software for the structural health monitoring (SHM) and manufacturing quality control (MQC) of composite...
This is a $124,633 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Space Micro Inc., a small business engineering firm in San Diego, California. The contract is for the development of a novel Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) product for long-life, high-reliability CubeSat missions in severe radiation environments. The proposed UADCS (Unified ADCS) concept aims to achieve 0.05-degree pointing control accuracy for a 3U CubeSat, with scalability to...
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 $124,970.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD) to develop an electric field instrument for CubeSat platforms. The goal is to create miniaturized sensor electronics and thermally stable, compact graphite composite booms that can effectively measure electric fields on low-cost CubeSats. This effort aims to support upcoming NASA Earth, space science, and planetary exploration missions that require...