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This is a firm-fixed-price, definitive contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for a federal agency) to Opterus Research and Development, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Loveland, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a "GEN1 SOLAR SAIL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. The contract has a ceiling value of $11,162,660.00 and a period of performance ending on June 30, 2030....

This is a $999,363.35 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., a small business, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II research project. The contract is set aside for small businesses and has an ultimate completion date of August 2, 2017. Princeton Satellite Systems specializes in guidance, navigation, and control systems for spacecraft, commercial software and...

This federal contract award is for the development and ground demonstration of a scalable solar sail system. The contract was awarded by the Marshall Space Flight Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to the prime contractor AEC Able Engineering Company Incorporated. The contract is a definitive, cost-plus-incentive type contract with a ceiling value of $10,235,803.00. The contract has no set-aside designation and an ultimate completion date of April 15, 2006. Based on the...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., a small aerospace research and development company. The $124,731.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a "Neural Space Navigator" solution, which is a research and development effort focused on advanced spacecraft navigation technologies. The contract has a period of...

Goeppert LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $174.5K Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by NASA's Shared Services Center. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, supports research and development of the Scalable Optically-Tuned Lamellar Ceramic Reflective Intra-Heliospheric Sail (SOLARIS) technology. The work will be performed in Middle City West, Pennsylvania, with an ultimate...

The U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, has awarded a $248,055.10 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Princeton Satellite Systems Inc., doing business as Princeton Fusion Systems. The contract is for research and development related to a Brayton cycle heat engine for satellite power. Princeton Fusion Systems is a small aerospace research and development company that specializes in guidance, navigation and control systems for spacecraft, as...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Altius Space Machines, Inc. for the development of the Solar Cube Heliogyro, a cubesat propulsion system that uses solar pressure as its sole means of propulsion and attitude control. The $124,812 firm-fixed-price contract will fund the fabrication and feasibility testing of a blade assembly to demonstrate that a sail blade of sufficient area can stow and...

Redwire Space Solutions, LLC was awarded a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at $18.8 million by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to develop and deliver the Solar Cruiser solar sail system (SSS) and active mass translator (AMT). The contract, awarded June 21, 2021, with a completion date of December 31, 2025, originated from NASA's SALMON-3 (Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice) solicitation, which seeks modest spaceflight investigations supporting science,...

Momentus Space LLC was awarded a $395,798 firm fixed-price delivery order by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center for the development of Generation 1 solar sail mission concepts aligned with the T0412 Gen1 Solar Sail Demonstration Manifest Requirements Document. This task order falls under Momentus' existing $45 million Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services 4 Indefinite Delivery Vehicle contract with Armstrong, which enables technology demonstrations across various...

This is a $102,367.00 firm fixed-price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bangham Engineering Inc., a for-profit organization, for the development of high-fidelity simulations and demonstration of up to 16 km long tethers to address the key risk of the E-Sail propulsion technology. The E-Sail propulsion system uses electrostatic repulsion of solar wind protons to provide propellant-less propulsion, enabling faster deep space travel...