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Space Initiatives Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, received a $174.3K grant award from NASA's Science Mission Directorate under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) on April 1, 2024. The research grant supports theoretical modeling, simulations, and data analysis for the "Swarming Proxima Centauri Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances" project, which investigates the deployment of gram-scale miniaturized spacecraft propelled by laser light to study...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $400,000.00 cooperative agreement to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a strategy for using CubeSats equipped with electrospray thrusters to achieve the delta-V required for deep-space missions, particularly to near-Earth asteroids. The goal is to enable more frequent and lower-cost deep-space exploration using small satellite platforms. MIT will design, manufacture, and test the propulsion system,...

Nearspace Launch Inc., doing business as Nearspace Launch, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $859,598 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver the SPACE-WEATHER CUBESAT ARRAY FOR 24/7 PROMPT GLOBAL COVERAGE EXPERIMENT (SWAP-E). This Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase II contract has a period of performance starting August 12, 2021 through May 10, 2024 and utilizes a firm fixed price contract type. To be...

This federal contract award to Planetary Resources Development Corporation, a small business, is for the development of the Compact Hyperspectral Aberration-Corrected Platform (CHAP), an instrument for microsatellites to enable more capable solar system exploration missions at lower cost. The $749,645 firm-fixed-price contract is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The CHAP instrument is...

This is a $749,500 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Planetary Resources Development Corporation (PRDC) to develop an Integrated Propulsion and Primary Structure Module (IPPSM) for small satellites. The IPPSM is designed to seamlessly integrate propulsion capabilities with the primary structure of CubeSat-class spacecraft, reducing the resources required for implementation. Under this contract,...

Tethers Unlimited, Inc., a small business, was awarded a $124,846 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a "Makersat Demonstration Mission." The effort aims to enable small satellite platforms, such as CubeSats and NanoSats, to perform "long baseline" and "spatially diverse" observation, measurement, and collection missions through the use of in-space manufacturing...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $497,007.70 grant for research to Exoterra Resource LLC, a solar electric propulsion company based in Littleton, Colorado. The NIMPH project aims to develop a micro in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) system to produce liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellant for sample return missions, which are significantly more expensive than traditional exploration missions due to the increased delta-V requirements. By...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Vestigo Aerospace, Inc., a for-profit organization, to address the safe disposal of spacecraft upon mission completion. The contract has a potential value of $124,997.00 and is a firm fixed price definitive contract. The contract aims to address the forecasted launch of up to 2,600 nanosatellites and microsatellites into orbit over the...

This federal contract award to Advanced Space LLC, a small business, is for the development of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS), an innovative in-space navigation technology based on Linked Autonomous Interplanetary Satellite Orbit Navigation (LIAISON). LIAISON enables autonomous, absolute navigation of satellites using only relative satellite-to-satellite tracking data, eliminating the need for ground tracking. The $124,991 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Jaycon Systems LLC, a Minority Owned, For Profit, Limited Liability Company. The contract is for the VISION-BASED NAVIGATION FOR FORMATION FLIGHT ONBOARD ISS program, which supports the integration, implementation, and ground testing of a vision-based navigation system using the Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) with the Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental...