Purchase Order NNM06AA01P

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,...

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 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 federal contract, awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to AST Space Mobile USA LLC, is for the procurement of a spaceflight-qualified 12U CubeSat bus to host a NASA-developed solar sail payload, as well as associated equipment, documentation, and services. The contract, valued at $969,573.02, is a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order that was set aside for small businesses. The contract supports NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) program, which is procuring the CubeSat bus to...

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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business located in San Diego, California. The contract is for the development of an actively controlled gravity offloading system to support ground testing of large, lightweight, deployable solar array structures - a key enabling technology for NASA's space exploration programs. The $129,798 firm-fixed-price contract aims to...

This is a $2,763,940.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center to ATK Space Systems LLC, a division of Northrop Grumman Corporation, to develop a high-performance concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar array system for spacecraft electric propulsion missions to outer planets. The contract is divided into three phases, with the base phase focused on conceptual design and prototype development, option 1 increasing hardware fidelity and environmental testing, and option...

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 federal contract award to Redwire Space Solutions, LLC (formerly Roccor LLC) for $754,995.00 supports the development of the Composite Trussed TRAC (T-TRAC) boom system for large-scale solar sail applications. The T-TRAC technology is an advancement of the TRAC boom system previously validated on the upcoming NEA (Near-Earth Asteroid) Scout mission. The objective is to mature the T-TRAC technology for potential use in NASA's future mid-sized solar sail missions. This includes scaling up the...

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...