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Reaction Systems, LLC has been awarded a $749,996 firm fixed price purchase order by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to continue development of an advanced endothermic fuel system for thermal management in hypersonic vehicles under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. As the prime contractor, Reaction Systems will perform the work in Golden, Colorado over a period of 18 months ending in March 2023. The contract has a total small business set aside...

This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Plasma Processes, LLC, a Huntsville, AL-based small business. The contract is for the development of a thermo-catalytic ignition system using innovative nanocrystal catalysts for cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid methane propulsion systems. This supports NASA's interest in advanced, non-toxic propellants and ignition systems for future space exploration vehicles. Plasma Processes has prior...

This federal contract was awarded to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act), a small business manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The $167,472.09 award is for Phase I research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, specifically for the "Development of a Robust and Reliable Ignition Assistance System for Multi-Fuel Capable Engines" topic. The contract was issued by the Department of the Army Materiel...

This is a $128,619 SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a small business, to design and develop an innovative thermal insulation system for cryogenic propellants on launch vehicles. The contract is focused on the "Launch Vehicle Load Responsive Multi-Layer Insulation (LV-LRMLI)" system, which aims to provide high performance thermal insulation during launch ascent, on-orbit, and on the surface of Mars. The Phase I effort will model, design, build, and test...

Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer of thermal management solutions, was awarded a $124,996 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award, which is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, is for the development of a consumable-based cooling system to enable the survival of Venus landers in the extreme environment of the planet. The proposed system would...

This is a $124,819.00 STTR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business, for the development of a simulation framework to enable accurate, design-time prediction of combustion instabilities in liquid-fueled rocket engines. The proposed framework will leverage LOCI/CHEM, a massively parallel, multi-physics flow simulation tool, to generate low-order models of combustion and acoustic response that can be solved simultaneously to map acoustic modes to stability...

This $124,679 firm-fixed-price NASA SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a small business based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The contract is for the development of an active two-phase thermal management system (TPTMS) to address challenges discussed in NASA's Thermal Management Systems Roadmap, Technology Area 14. The TPTMS utilizes a single-phase liquid pump to drive two-phase flow through heat sources and sinks, allowing for heat load sharing and the...

This firm-fixed-price contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Creare LLC, a small business, is for the development and demonstration of a two-stage cryocooler that provides refrigeration at 10 Kelvin, with additional cooling at 60 to 70 Kelvin. The cryocooler will be used for advanced space-borne instruments that require cooling at temperatures of 10 Kelvin and below. The contract, valued at $124,967.00, is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Purdue University, to develop a novel launch propulsion technology for rapidly inserting nano/micro satellites (5-50 kg) into low Earth orbit. The proposed technology employs a storable liquid oxidizer and a unique solid fuel to enable a low-cost, mass-efficient launch system, with the potential to reduce...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $118,187 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract to Terves, LLC, a for-profit manufacturer, to develop an ignition system for a high density hybrid rocket motor. The project will use non-toxic, storable, ionic liquid oxidizers and high density polymer fuels to address the poor volumetric efficiency of traditional hybrid rockets. The effort will also research fuel additives to improve specific impulse and fuel...