Purchase Order 1333MD18PNEEO0028

This federal contract award is for the development and ground demonstration of a scalable solar sail system. The contract was awarded by the Marshall Space Flight Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to the prime contractor AEC Able Engineering Company Incorporated. The contract is a definitive, cost-plus-incentive type contract with a ceiling value of $10,235,803.00. The contract has no set-aside designation and an ultimate completion date of April 15, 2006. Based on the...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Altius Space Machines, Inc. for the development of the Solar Cube Heliogyro, a cubesat propulsion system that uses solar pressure as its sole means of propulsion and attitude control. The $124,812 firm-fixed-price contract will fund the fabrication and feasibility testing of a blade assembly to demonstrate that a sail blade of sufficient area can stow and...

This is a $102,367.00 firm fixed-price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bangham Engineering Inc., a for-profit organization, for the development of high-fidelity simulations and demonstration of up to 16 km long tethers to address the key risk of the E-Sail propulsion technology. The E-Sail propulsion system uses electrostatic repulsion of solar wind protons to provide propellant-less propulsion, enabling faster deep space travel...

This is a $124,960 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nexolve Holding Co LLC, a small business located in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract is for the SBIR Phase III "Packaging and Manufacturing Processes to Enable Production of Very Large Solar Sails for Next Generation Missions." This work builds upon Nexolve's prior SBIR Phase I and II research and development efforts to advance flexible polyimide...

This is a $1,598,254.00 firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the Marshall Space Flight Center, a civilian agency, to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) for the Diffractive Solar Sailing NIAC Phase III project. The contract has no set-aside designation, indicating open competition. APL, a subsidiary of The Johns Hopkins University, is a not-for-profit research center that provides sophisticated services to national security and scientific agencies....

This contract was awarded by the Armstrong Flight Research Center, a civilian agency, to Momentus Space LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in San Jose, California. The contract is for the development of Gen 1 solar sail mission concepts to address the objectives outlined in a Manifest Requirements Document (MRD) titled T0412 Gen1 Solar Sail Demonstration. The contract has a ceiling value of $395,798.00 and is a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order with a completion date of November 30,...

This contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Tentguild Engineering Co., is for the development of a lightweight, deployable photovoltaic (PV) array module architecture designed for Mars applications. The proposed system features a toroidal storage configuration that can encircle and integrate with various space transport and surface mission systems. Key requirements include modular or large-unit design, self-cleaning and dust mitigation, tilt...

This is a $30,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Opterus Research and Development, Inc., a small business manufacturer of critical spacecraft components and deployable structures. The contract is for the development of a solar sail boom architecture in support of NASA's SCOPE mission, a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III effort. As a Phase III SBIR award, this contract represents the transition of Opterus' prior...

This is a $38,921 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the University of Alabama for the "Development of Metasurface Reflectors to Enable Future Solar Sail Missions". The agreement has a final completion date of December 31, 2021. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The University of Alabama, through its Office of Sponsored Programs Division, is the prime contractor for this...

This is a $110,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for a Solar Sail Mission Design Analyses project. The purpose is to support scalability and future mission concept of operations studies. This is not a set-aside contract. The University of Alabama, through its Office for Sponsored Programs Division, will be the prime contractor performing the research and technical services. The award has an...