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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price, $123,979 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Qortek Inc. for the development of a Dynamically Reconfigurable Electrical Power System (DREPS) with integrated thermal management and high reliability components. The DREPS aims to improve the modularity, scalability, and efficiency of small spacecraft and CubeSat power systems up to 100W by implementing a novel converter architecture that...

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at $230.1 million on May 16, 2016, to develop and demonstrate an Advanced Electric Propulsion (AEPS) system for future deep space human and robotic exploration missions. The contract, which extends through August 4, 2027, encompasses two distinct performance periods: the base period focuses on developing and testing engineering development end items to reduce...

Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $124,796 firm fixed price purchase order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop an active battery management system with a physics-based life modeling topology. This contract supports NASA's research on distributed electric propulsion and hybrid electric aircraft, which rely heavily on energy storage systems with large numbers of battery cells. The...

Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small business based in North Logan, Utah, was awarded a $1.12 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by NASA on May 9, 2018, to develop an active battery management system (BMS) for the X57 Maxwell electric aircraft demonstrator. The contract, which concluded on June 30, 2022, focused on advancing battery technology for distributed electric propulsion applications by creating dynamic measurement and control systems capable...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Qortek Inc., a small business manufacturer of specialized power electronics and smart material devices. The contract, valued at $749,965.00, is for the development of a reconfigurable, modular power system architecture for small satellites and CubeSats, known as the Digitally Reconfigurable Electrical Power System (DREPS). The DREPS aims to improve the reliability, efficiency, and...

This contract award to Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc. (Deployable Space Systems, Inc. Division) is for the development of an innovative multi-junction photovoltaic flexible blanket technology to support solar electric propulsion (SEP) for human exploration and space science missions. The $749,618 firm fixed price contract, awarded by NASA under the SBIR Phase II program, aims to produce a lightweight, modular, and high-voltage solar array system with improved performance over current...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small business manufacturer of aerospace products and services. The $665,896.69 firm fixed-price contract supports the CEPT (Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology) research phase, which involves designing, building, testing, operating, and sustaining an electric distributed propulsion system on a modified general...

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 definitive, firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Sunpower, Inc., a subsidiary of Ametek Inc. The $7,902,726.34 contract supports NASA's Science Mission Directorate's need for higher efficiency radioisotope power systems. Specifically, Sunpower will develop power conversion technology to achieve at least 20% efficiency at the generator level, significantly improving on the current state-of-the-art...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Busek Co., Inc., a manufacturer of spacecraft propulsion systems and components, to develop a novel, universal, modular, 2.5kW discharge converter for Hall Effect Thruster (HET) Power Processing Units (PPUs). The proposed system aims to provide a universal solution for aerospace systems with different bus voltages by supporting a wide input voltage range...