Delivery Order NNS14AA17B-NNS16AA06T

This is a $499,960 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Mississippi State University to develop standardized methods for using high-power amateur rockets to fly experiments and low-technology readiness level (TRL) payloads. The objective is to determine optimal approaches through flight tests and computational analyses, exploring factors like rocket structure response, aeroacoustic inputs, and heating. The resulting methods will be documented in a...

This federal contract award was issued by the Stennis Space Center, a civilian agency, to Aerojet Rocketdyne Of DE, Inc. The $273,806.00 firm fixed-price purchase order is for the delivery of B TEST STAND LH & LOX DOCK CONTROL PANELS. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Aerojet Rocketdyne Of DE, Inc. is a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, and sea domains. The company has...

This is a Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the Armstrong Flight Research Center, a civilian agency, to Rolling Hills Research Corporation for a Definitive, Firm Fixed Price Phase II STTR contract valued at $600,000.00. The contract is for the development of a "reusable, oxidizer-cooled, hybrid aerospike rocket motor for flight test", which will utilize the cooling properties of nitrous oxide (N2O) to enable reusable operation of an aerospike nozzle in conjunction with an...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University for $615,971.00 to conduct research and testing on heat transfer to lander legs from rocket plumes. The research aims to expand on an existing flight payload that has been tested on suborbital flights, to increase the number of temperature sensors in order to better understand the effects of actively gimballed and throttled rocket motors on lander legs. The grant will fund multiple flight...

This federal contract award to Purdue University is for a graduate-level research thesis focused on improving the efficiency of rotating detonation engines by utilizing aerospike nozzle technologies. Rotating detonation engines are a type of pressure-gain combustion system that can provide up to 15% higher specific impulse compared to conventional rocket engines, making them applicable to launch vehicle propulsion systems. The research will investigate the effects of an aerospike nozzle on...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $562,886 firm fixed price definitive contract to Plasma Processes, LLC to support demonstration of a 1-newton thruster using the AF-M315E green monopropellant under the 1 NEWTON THRUSTER DEMONSTRATION USING ASCENT program. Performance will take place in Huntsville, Alabama over a period of 18 months concluding in December 2021. Plasma Processes will serve as the prime contractor and will be supported by...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a purchase order to Force Measurement Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business, for $71,122.00 on June 4, 2026, to conduct a design study for PSL 40k Thrust Stand refurbishment at Glenn Research Center, with final completion targeted for October 21, 2026. Work is performed in Cleveland, Ohio. The design study assesses repair and modification requirements for the 40k thrust stand following extended use in a harsh environment, drawing on the contractor's...

Stell Engineering, Inc. has been awarded a $1.24M firm fixed-price purchase order by the Air Force Research Laboratory for Phase II of an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program focused on connecting mission integration requirements to system models. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, is scheduled for completion by November 14, 2025, with work to be performed in Marina Del Rey, California. This Phase II award builds upon promising Phase I research, reflecting...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Cascade Technologies Inc., a small business, to develop large-eddy simulation (LES) tools for predicting and understanding combustion instabilities in liquid-propellant rocket engines. The $124,952 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract aims to advance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities in areas like real-fluid extensions, validation, and multiphase formulation to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center (NASA) awarded The Boeing Company a $6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to conduct follow-on wind tunnel testing at its Hazelwood, Missouri facility. The testing will build upon an investigation at NASA's 14- by 22-foot subsonic wind tunnel that was curtailed in fall 2019. Boeing will analyze collected data and report results. Tri Models Inc. received subcontracts for distributive services to support the...