Definitive Contract NNX16CP15C
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- This is a Firm Fixed Price Small Business SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. in the amount of $124,325.00. The goal of the contract is to perform breadboarding and testing of promising hermetic sealing techniques, as well as conduct a system-level study to determine implementation challenges for sample return missions. The tests will be conducted on both clean and "dirty" seals. The results of the Phase I contract will be one or more options for hermetic...
- This is a $200,000.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, LTD., a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program contractor. The contract is for the design, fabrication, and qualification testing of a hermetically sealed sample return container, referred to as a "cache", to preserve planetary samples during the return journey to Earth. This effort is part of NASA's HERMETIC SEALING SYSTEMS FOR DUSTY...
- This is a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. for the development of a high-temperature (HT) rotary-percussive drill and pneumatic sample delivery system for use in Venus exploration. The $1,032,848 firm-fixed-price contract builds on prior SBIR work by Honeybee Robotics, which found that a HT trencher and blower-based pneumatic system were not feasible or carried high...
- Honeybee Robotics, LTD. was awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $1.8 million by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to deliver extra-vehicular activity crew deployed coring and sealing systems. As a Phase III award under the Small Business Innovation Research program, this firm fixed price contract indicates Honeybee Robotics will provide technologies to support NASA's objectives for space exploration. The prime contractor will perform work in Brooklyn, New...
- This is a $1,333,028.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd., a For Profit Organization and Subchapter S Corporation. The contract is for research and development of an integrated sample acquisition drill and pneumatic sample delivery system to support the search for extraterrestrial life in ocean worlds such as Europa and Titan. This contract is not associated with a set-aside program. Honeybee Robotics has...
- This is a federal contract award to Honeybee Robotics LLC, a specialized manufacturer of advanced robotic and spacecraft systems located in Longmont, Colorado. The contract, valued at $1,110,100.00, was awarded under the ORS SBIR II (Small Business Innovation Research) program, a research and development initiative. It is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Definitive Contract with the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center, a defense agency. The contract is for Phase II of the SBIR program, which focuses on...
- This is a STTR Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. The contract has a total ceiling value of $1,137,769.00 and is focused on developing a fully integrated, autonomous free-flying robotic system based on a commercial quadcopter. The system will be demonstrated to perform tasks such as flying to a target location, acquiring rock and regolith samples, and returning to the point of origin. This...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,978.00 firm-fixed-price contract to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd., a small business subchapter S corporation, for the development of a Pneumatic Sampler (P-Sampler) to support the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission. This contract was issued under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. Honeybee Robotics, a subsidiary of Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc., has a history of providing drilling...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. to develop a dust-tolerant, high-pressure oxygen quick disconnect (QD) for astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA) suits. The $124,100 firm-fixed-price contract will fund the design and performance testing of a prototype QD system capable of transferring high-pressure oxygen between the spacecraft and spacesuit in extreme thermal...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. for the development of a pneumatic sample acquisition and delivery system for planetary exploration. The contract, valued at $123,628, is focused on the design and testing of key subsystems, including a high-efficiency blower, cyclone, nozzle, and tubing, to enable robust on-demand sample collection and delivery, particularly for...
This is a $749,870 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. for the development of hermetic sealing technologies to enable sample return from planetary bodies such as Mars, the Moon, comets, and asteroids. The goal is to design and fabricate hermetic sealing canisters that can achieve leak rates of 10-7 atm cc/sec helium, with the canisters to be exposed to dust and thermal cycles to reach Technology Readiness Level 5/6 by the end of the contract. This contract builds on prior SBIR Phase I work by Honeybee Robotics investigating sealing approaches like induction brazing, knife edge, shape memory alloy, C-ring, and O-ring. The sealing system would be used to store samples of rocks, soils, atmospheric gas, ice or icy-soil collected during future sample return missions identified as priorities by the National Research Council's Decadal Survey. This contract is intended to advance the sealing technologies to higher readiness levels to support those future sample return missions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| 2 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 5/31/18 | |
| 1 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/23/18 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $749.9k | 4/27/16 |