Purchase Order FA945311M0133

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lambda Consulting, a small disadvantaged business. The $124,954 contract funds the development of an integrated optical stack incorporating carbon nanotubes for use in reflective nulling coronagraphs. The goal is to advance the state of the art in stray light control and optical surface quality for scientific instrumentation to support...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Applied Sciences Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for the development of affordable and practical spray-coated carbon nanotube (SCCNT) materials to provide stray light suppression for aerospace applications, such as telescopic imagery. The contract has a potential value of $749,762 and was awarded as a definitive, firm-fixed-price...

This federal contract was awarded by NASA to Applied Sciences Inc., a small business, for the development of a unique solution to reduce the impact of stray visible light on space-based telescopic imagery. The solution leverages nano-structured polymer coatings and carbon nanotubes to create a highly effective, low-cost, and scalable light trapping surface. This innovation aims to address a key limitation in current treatments for mitigating the deleterious effects of stray light on the...

This SBIR Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $785,000.00 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business. The goal is to develop a deployable, offset-fed paraboloidal mesh reflector antenna that can operate onboard small, low-cost satellites like CubeSats at frequencies up to 100 GHz. The contract aims to fully test the performance characteristics of a prototype antenna with an aperture greater...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to produce a 3-meter symmetrical radius of curvature isogrid mirror substrate for use in ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) telescopes....

This federal contract award to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, is focused on maturing advanced mirror and telescope assembly technology. The goal is to significantly reduce the cost of space mirrors from the current state-of-the-art of $6.4 million per square meter to less than $1.6 million per square meter, while maintaining low weight, high stiffness, and high performance for X-ray, neutron, and UV/optical applications. The $749,280 Small Business Innovation Research...

This is a $749,714 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development of a novel, innovative ceramic material that can be used to produce large, lightweight, and cost-effective mirrors for next-generation telescopes. Semplastics will deliver four large mirrors up to 0.6 meters in diameter, with coated and...

This $124,746 federal contract award was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Lightweight Telescopes, Inc. (LWT), a small business and minority-owned manufacturer. The contract is for developing and demonstrating nanocomposite optics technology (NCOT) based on carbon nanotubes, polymers, and 3D printing. The goal is to advance this technology to enable future space telescopes that are low-cost, rapidly fabricated, and have very large apertures. Key deliverables...

This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of a civilian federal agency. The prime contractor, Optimax Systems, Inc., will develop a process for manufacturing lightweight, stable mirror substrates using additive manufacturing (3D printing) techniques. The goal is to produce mirror substrates suitable for use in space and flight applications, with a focus on demonstrating the feasibility of the manufacturing process and...