This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Bradford Space, Inc., a European developer and manufacturer of satellite control subsystems and components. The $748,891 firm fixed price contract is for the development of "TASK-SPECIFIC ASTEROID SIMULANTS FOR GROUND TESTING", which aligns with Bradford Space's expertise in propulsion systems and spacecraft. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and...
This firm fixed-price research and development contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Bradford Space, Inc., a European developer and manufacturer of satellite control subsystems and components. The $121,784 contract is for research by Deep Space Industries and the University of Central Florida into using carbonaceous asteroid simulants and Martian clay deposits as construction materials through a low-temperature vacuum drying process. This work is funded under NASA's Small...
This is a $83,320 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bradford Space, Inc., a European manufacturer of satellite subsystems and components. The grant supports research and development to advance two critical prerequisites for large-scale economic use of space resources: in-space manufacture of propellants from non-terrestrial bodies, and in-space manufacture of heat shields for low-cost capture of materials into Earth...
This federal contract award, valued at $84,324.00, was granted to Bradford Space, Inc., a European developer and manufacturer of satellite control subsystems and components. The contract is for the development of ASTROKIT.ORG, an online platform that provides services for browsing asteroid data and tools to support analysis of asteroid astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy. The goal of the project is to create a set of free software tools that empower citizen scientists to explore and analyze...
This $149,850 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for Phase I development of a "Ubiquitous and Itinerant Lunar Deposition System" to support lunar surface operations and mobility, with a performance period ending on January 25, 2023. Astrobotic, a commercial space technology company, has extensive...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics and technology company. The $124,214 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract was awarded on July 27, 2018 and is set to be completed by February 25, 2019. The contract aims to investigate Astrobotic's "A-SDR" software-defined reliability product for enabling the reliable use of...
This is a $99,736 federal grant award to Bradford Space, Inc., a European developer and manufacturer of satellite control subsystems and components. The grant is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and is for a research study examining the use of water-based propulsion systems leveraging volatiles from near-Earth asteroids to produce storable chemical propellants. The goal is to reduce the need to carry large masses of propellant from Earth during...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project titled "ASICS - Adaptable, Scalable, Intelligent Computing for Space." The $149,921 contract is set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of February 6, 2025. Astrobotic, which spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's...
This is a $149,733 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Sedaro Corporation, a small business based in Arlington, Virginia. The contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project focused on "Enabling Integrated Spacecraft Simulation and the Evolution of JPL's Concurrent Engineering Environment." Sedaro specializes in advanced modeling, simulation, and digital twin...
<p>This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $149,677.00 awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Astroforge, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a non-contact planetary sampling technology using cold ablation drilling. The contract has a period of performance through February 6, 2025 and is set aside for small businesses.</p>