This is a $124,993 firm fixed-price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Loadpath, LLC, a small business. The contract is for the development of a Modular Extendable Terrestrial Array (META) - a robust, structurally efficient solar array system that can autonomously deploy on the Martian surface to support manned missions. Loadpath leveraged its prior experience developing lightweight, high-power solar arrays for...
This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc. (Deployable Space Systems, Inc. Division), a small business. The contract is for the research and development of a next-generation, ultra-compact, and lightweight solar array system with extremely high specific power. This innovation is intended to enable higher-powered NASA science and solar electric propulsion (SEP) missions, as well as other...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price, Definitive Contract to Loadpath, LLC, a small business, for the ORIGAMI-BASED EXTENDABLE LUNAR INNOVATIVE SOLAR COLUMN (OBELISC) project under the SBIR Program Phase I action. The contract has a potential value of $124,969.00 and a completion date of March 1, 2021. Loadpath, LLC is a developer of mission critical solutions for next generation space infrastructure, and has provided...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,978 firm fixed price contract to Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a division of Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc., for the development of a high-performance, ultra-compact solar array system for use on NASA and non-NASA space missions. This SBIR Phase I contract will fund research and development of a tensioned membrane blanket solar array that can be stowed in a very small volume, allowing larger solar arrays to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $156,234.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Opterus Research and Development, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a 50 kW-class retractable, rollable mast lunar surface solar array. This research and development effort is part of NASA's broader work on advanced deployable spacecraft structures and...
This is a $873,819 SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Mark O'Neill LLC, a small business, for the development of a new stretched lens array (SLA) solar power technology. The SLA is a high-efficiency, low-mass, high-voltage solar power solution that can achieve over 1,000 W/kg specific power, making it well-suited for solar electric propulsion and other high-power space applications. The SLA technology is derived from the SCARLET array used on NASA's Deep Space 1...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Redwire Space Solutions, LLC (prime contractor) for the development of a high-power solar array system for small satellites. The contract has a total ceiling value of $1,499,415.00 and is set aside for small businesses. Major subcontractors include River Front Services, Inc. (systems engineering support), Bluefoot Industrial LLC (systems engineering oversight), and Solaero...
<p>This is a $315,000 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Loadpath, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for the development of a deployable boom to meet the requirements of a solar coronagraph. The contract is part of the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) ROSES-2022 major program and has a period of performance through July 31, 2026. The contract has no set-aside designation.</p>
This firm fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a division of Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc., for the development of a next-generation high performance solar array system specifically for NASA's future lander and sample return missions. The proposed solar array technology is a tensioned membrane blanket that stows compactly and deploys to create a structurally rigid configuration with high strength...
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...