Purchase Order NNX15CC57P
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- This is a $128,619 SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a small business, to design and develop an innovative thermal insulation system for cryogenic propellants on launch vehicles. The contract is focused on the "Launch Vehicle Load Responsive Multi-Layer Insulation (LV-LRMLI)" system, which aims to provide high performance thermal insulation during launch ascent, on-orbit, and on the surface of Mars. The Phase I effort will model, design, build, and test...
- NASA awarded a $124,885 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Quest Thermal Group, LLC to design and develop an innovative, lightweight thermal insulation system for cryogenic propellants. The "Multi-Environment MLI (MEMLI)" system is intended to perform and insulate cryogenic propellants in multiple environments, including on Earth, in space, and on the surface of Mars. The insulation system is being developed to support NASA's Evolvable Mars Campaign, Mars...
- The federal contract award NNX16CC21C was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a small business located in Arvada, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a Vapor Cooled Structure MLI (VCSMLI) system, which uses a sealed vapor layer within an Integrated MultiLayer Insulation (IMLI) to provide efficient vapor cooling of cryogenic tank skirts. This technology is intended to support NASA's exploration goals by enabling improved...
- This is a Phase III SBIR contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a small business. The contract is valued at $257,083 and has a completion date of March 15, 2024. Quest Thermal Group is a world leader in advanced thermal insulation systems and has previously provided research, prototypes, testing, and thermal insulation materials and systems to NASA and its partners through SBIR contracts and subcontracts. This Phase III award is...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the [federal-agency]Shared Services Center[/federal-agency], a civilian agency, to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $152,980.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for research and development related to "Advanced Cryogenic Insulation with Reduced Thermal Conduction and High Performance at Low Temperatures." As a total small business set-aside contract, Quest Thermal Group will...
- This is a firm-fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Powdermet Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company. The contract, valued at $124,455.00, is for the design and fabrication of an integral thermal protection system (TPS) cryogenic storage tank using integrated materials computational engineering. The project aims to develop a multilayered thermally insulating syntactic foam core structure...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to S.D. Miller and Associates, P.L.L.C., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business. The contract, valued at $124,038, is for the investigation of a new class of thermal insulations to enable thermal protection systems on ceramic matrix composite hot structures and hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerators. The research aims to develop super-efficient,...
- This is a $149,986.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business thermal management solutions provider based in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The contract is for the development of "Novel Vapor Chambers for Heating and Cooling of Advanced Sorption Systems". As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract supports the early-stage research and feasibility study of this novel thermal management technology....
- TDA Research, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, was awarded a $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a new thermal insulation material to extend the operational lifetime of landers on the surface of Venus, which experiences extreme surface temperatures of 460°C. The...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,953.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Physical Sciences Inc., a for-profit R&D company, to develop a regenerative cooling architecture and manufacturing method for a combined ceramic matrix composite (CMC)/metal structure for rocket nozzles. The objective is to reduce structural mass and improve specific impulse to enable larger payload fractions and lower mission costs. The proposed...
This is a $129,423.00 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Quest Thermal Group, LLC, a small business based in Arvada, Colorado. The contract is for the design and development of an innovative Vapor Cooled Structure Multi-Layer Insulation (VCSMLI) system that uses boil-off propellant to cool structural elements like skirts and struts, reducing heat leak by nearly 50%. This aligns with NASA's technology roadmap, which identifies zero boil-off storage of cryogenic propellants as a critical need. The VCSMLI system leverages Quest Thermal's expertise in advanced thermal insulation systems, including Integrated Multi-Layer Insulation (IMLI) and Light-weight Reflective Multi-Layer Insulation (LRMLI). The goal of this Phase I effort is to model, analyze, design, fabricate, and test the VCSMLI system on a tank skirt to validate the performance benefits.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $129.4k | 6/12/15 |