Delivery Order GS23F0401K-NNG10PN01D

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 $6,885,035.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the small business prime contractor Redwire Space Solutions, LLC for the development of Deployable Structural Booms for SmallSat Antennas. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Phase II. The performance location is Niwot, Colorado. Two subcontractors are involved in the effort - E Nelson Engineering, LLC and Opterus Research and...

The University of New Hampshire, as prime contractor, was awarded a $400,000 firm fixed price contract by NASA Goddard Space Center to conduct a Phase A concept study for the AETHER instrument. The study will support development of an instrument for the International Space Station to observe ionospheric plasmas and neutral particles from geomagnetic storms. Major subcontractors include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Colorado, and University of Texas at Dallas to provide...

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...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $5.05 million civilian research grant effective September 27, 2018, with a completion date of December 31, 2024, to support the Auroral Emission Radio Observer (AERO) mission under the direction of Principal Investigator Phil Erickson at MIT Haystack Observatory. AERO is a one-year CubeSat mission in polar orbit designed to advance understanding of Earth's auroral phenomena and space physics processes through observations of auroral radio...

Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD), a small business, was awarded a $124,960.00 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance the state-of-the-art in deployable low-frequency antenna technology for small satellites. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program and requires CTD to develop system requirements, demonstrate the feasibility of elastic memory composite antenna booms, and build...

This is a $349,924.82 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit research and development organization, to investigate the drift-bounce dispersion of microbursts and their potential ability to explain the observation of 30-60 km fine-scale, persistent structures in over 35 keV electrons precipitating into the Earth's atmosphere. The research will utilize data from The Aerospace Corporation's Aerocube-6 (AC6) mission, a...

Roccor LLC was awarded a $751,522 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance the performance of a composite Triangular Rollable and Collapsible Boom (TRAC Boom) technology for use in the Comet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Isolation, and Return (CORSAIR) mission. The TRAC Boom was invented by the Air Force Research Laboratory and exclusively licensed to Roccor. The contract aims to improve the strength...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $149,550 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (doing business as Orion Space Solutions), a small business specializing in smallsat manufacturing, space science, and atmospheric research. The contract, titled "MODELING IMPACTS OF COHERENT AND RANDOM TID STRUCTURES ON OTHR PERFORMANCE," focuses on modeling the impacts of ionospheric disturbances on...

<p>The Department of the Air Force Space Command awarded a $481,072 delivery order contract to Ensco Inc. to support meteorological special studies and atmospheric phenomena modeling efforts for the Reactor Product's Program. The contract, which runs from December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022, will be performed in Melbourne, Florida. Pricing for the contract is set as cost plus fixed fee.</p>