This is a $900,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to A-Terra LLC, a small disadvantaged woman-owned business located in Albany, Oregon. The contract is for the development of a high purity oxygen separation system from a pyrolysis gas mixture using rapid solid oxide ion transport. This Phase II effort builds upon previous SBIR research. The contract is a firm-fixed price definitive contract with a...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to TDA Research, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract, valued at $754,959.00, is for the development of a small, lightweight, and portable oxygen generator based on vacuum swing adsorption technology to support long-duration manned space missions. The objective is to produce a prototype that can deliver...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $753,136 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Air Squared, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract supports the development of technologies for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) on Mars, focused on collecting and pressurizing gases from the Martian atmosphere for eventual oxygen production using solid oxide electrolysis. This builds on Air Squared's prior SBIR and other federal...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to TDA Research, Inc., a small business located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract, valued at $754,998.00, is for the development of a small, lightweight, and portable oxygen generator based on vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) technology to provide medical oxygen during long-duration manned space missions. The unit will use ambient vehicle cabin air as the...
NASA awarded a $124,948 firm fixed price definitive contract to Air Squared, Inc. under the agency's SBIR Program Phase I solicitation seeking novel oxygen extraction concepts that allow for production of oxygen on the lunar surface using lunar regolith. The total small business set-aside contract has a period of performance through November 2021 and was awarded in May 2021 by NASA's Shared Services Center located in Westminster, Colorado. The SBIR program aims to support early-stage research...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Umpqua Research Company, a small business, to design and build an advanced oxygen recovery technology based on a continuous catalyst feed/carbon discharge Bosch reactor. The objective is to recover over 75% of the oxygen from metabolically-produced carbon dioxide and deliver an engineering development unit at a technology readiness level of 4. The $442,985.00...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract, valued at one hundred fifty-six thousand forty-five dollars ($156,045), was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Blueshift LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies, for the development of feed and removal technologies of regolith for oxygen extraction. As a total small business set-aside, this firm fixed-price purchase order supports NASA's SBIR Program goals of...
This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Dioxide Materials, Inc., a for-profit small business. The objective of the contract is to adapt Dioxide's carbon dioxide electrolyzers, which are being developed under funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), for use in NASA missions. The contract is focused on developing "room temperature electrolyzers for oxygen...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract was awarded to Reaction Systems, LLC of Golden, Colorado by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. With a potential value of $149,810, this firm fixed price purchase order is for the development of high capacity regenerable carbon adsorbents (RCA) sorbents to increase cycle times. Set aside for total small businesses, this research supports NASA's SBIR program goals of funding...
This federal contract award, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Johnson Space Center, continues wafer and cell stack activities needed to produce high-pressure oxygen for NASA's human space exploration programs. The $549,983.00 firm-fixed-price delivery order was awarded to American Oxygen LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. American Oxygen LLC specializes in developing and producing oxygen separation systems and related...