This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CU Aerospace LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract, valued at $124,991, is for the design and development of a 25 kg spacecraft for initial flight testing of a 2,500 square meter ultrasail demonstrator called I-SAIL. This represents a next-generation high-risk, high-payoff solar sail system for the launch, deployment, stabilization and control of very...
This is a $18,685,291.39 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Redwire Space Solutions, LLC for the SOLAR CRUISER: SOLAR SAIL SYSTEM (SSS) AND ACTIVE MASS TRANSLATOR (AMT). This contract is for the development of a solar sail system and active mass translator, which support NASA's space exploration and technology objectives. The contract runs through June 30, 2025 and was awarded on June 21,...
The U.S. government agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has awarded a Firm Fixed Price definitive contract with a ceiling value of $1,205,742.00 to Redwire Space Solutions, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. The contract, titled "SOLAR CRUISER," supports the development and delivery of a solar sail system for space exploration and operations. Redwire Space Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of Redwire...
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 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Blue Canyon Technologies LLC, a small business manufacturer of small satellite solutions. The order is for two sets of deployable solar arrays with release mechanisms, based on a quote from Blue Canyon Technologies dated April 9, 2019. The total potential value of the order is $240,000.00, with a completion date of November 30, 2019. As a small business...
This is a federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CU Aerospace L.L.C., a for-profit limited liability company, for the development of the CUBESAIL-D module, an accelerated spacecraft deorbiting technology. The total potential value of the contract is $124,995.00. As a total small business set-aside award, this contract supports the growth of entrepreneurial space companies and...
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 $1,598,254.00 firm fixed-price delivery order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) on September 19, 2022. The contract is for a Diffractive Solar Sailing project under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase III program, which seeks to advance transformative space technologies. The contract has no set-aside designation. As a university-affiliated research center, APL will serve as...
This is a $749,999.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC), a minority-owned small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the research and development of a high-impulse, scalable metal plasma thruster for CubeSat missions. This contract award supports NASA's goals of advancing propulsion capabilities for...
This is a $800,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC), a small, minority-owned business based in Piedmont, California. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and will fund the development of a high-impulse, scalable metal plasma thruster for CubeSat missions. This award builds on AASC's prior SBIR contract work with NASA,...