This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business, for the development and testing of a prototype portable and adaptable gravity offloading system. The goal is to improve upon existing equipment used for ground testing and qualification of large, lightweight, deployable solar array structures, which are a key enabling technology for NASA. The proposed system aims to overcome...
This is a $124,532 firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Angstrom Designs Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized electronic and lighting systems based in Santa Barbara, California. The contract is for the design and development of a Compact Telescoping Array (CTA), which is a highly scalable solar array technology that NASA has identified as enabling for many of its near-term and long-term missions, including the Asteroid...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business based in San Diego, California. The contract is for the development of an innovative multiphysics simulation framework to improve the modeling of hypersonic reentry environments for space exploration vehicles. The framework will couple various physics solvers, including a charring ablator model, computational fluid dynamics, and nonlinear structural dynamics, to...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Motionport, LLC, a small business located in St. George, Utah. The contract, valued at $124,905.00, is for the development of a simulation capability to model the deployment dynamics of a commercially available deployable solar array designed for use with a 6U CubeSat. The work aims to reduce the technical risk associated with the development of new...
This is a USD 124,751 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business based in San Diego, California. The contract is focused on developing novel aerodynamic devices to improve the efficiency of small-core turbines for future subsonic transport aircraft. Key objectives include mitigating losses from tip leakage and secondary flows in these turbines, while accounting for their...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Energid Technologies Corporation, a for-profit organization, to develop actuator and gripper modules with control and simulation software for building mechanisms to attach to free-flying robots. The $124,991.00 firm-fixed-price contract will leverage Energid's existing hardware and software to reduce weight and improve performance, enabling novel modes of...
This is a $131,348 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business, for research and development of Evolvable Control and Testing Technologies for On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) Robots under the SBIR Program Phase I. The contract has a completion date of November 19, 2021. ATA Engineering is an employee-owned small business that provides specialized engineering,...
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Apech Labs LLC, a small, for-profit limited liability company based in Buffalo, New York. The $849,876.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the continued development of a Regolith Immune Linear Actuator Family, which are advanced mechanical systems and actuators tailored for the unique challenges of space environments, particularly...
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to L'Garde, Inc., a small business manufacturer of inflatable and deployable structures, in the amount of $754,835. The goal of this Phase II effort is to develop several prototypes of an ultra-fast boom that will serve as the trunk beam for a 300 kW solar electric propulsion (SEP) system. Key objectives include increasing the bending strength of the truss...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business based in San Diego, California. The $754,984 contract is for the development of innovative tools and methods to improve the accuracy of random vibration response predictions for aerospace structures under critical inhomogeneous aeroacoustic loads. This research aims to enable more accurate predictions of structural...