This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (NASA SSSC) to Hagopian John G, doing business as Lambda Consulting and Technology Division, a small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $1,126,767.00, is for the continued development and delivery of critical optical components, including Lyot stops and apodization masks, for use in coronagraphic instruments on future NASA missions...
This is a $11,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Nanophotonics, LLC, a small business operating under the trade name Lambda Consulting. The contract is for the delivery of carbon nanotube masks, also known as apodizer mirrors, for use in advanced imaging systems for exoplanet and Earth observations. This award is a follow-on to previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts...
This federal contract was awarded by NASA to Applied Sciences Inc., a small business, for the development of a unique solution to reduce the impact of stray visible light on space-based telescopic imagery. The solution leverages nano-structured polymer coatings and carbon nanotubes to create a highly effective, low-cost, and scalable light trapping surface. This innovation aims to address a key limitation in current treatments for mitigating the deleterious effects of stray light on the...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,880 Firm Fixed Price contract to Lambda Consulting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I program. The contract is for research into single photon generation using functionalized quantum dots on carbon nanotube arrays, with applications in single photon detector calibration and quantum entanglement. This work supports NASA's cutting-edge research...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Applied Sciences Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for the development of affordable and practical spray-coated carbon nanotube (SCCNT) materials to provide stray light suppression for aerospace applications, such as telescopic imagery. The contract has a potential value of $749,762 and was awarded as a definitive, firm-fixed-price...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nanohmics Inc., a technology development and R&D company, to conduct Phase I research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The goal is to develop nanostructured "super-black" absorbing materials to help control stray light in advanced astronomical telescopes and imaging systems. This is a critical need for space-based...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to produce a 3-meter symmetrical radius of curvature isogrid mirror substrate for use in ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) telescopes....
This contract award to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. is for the development of a programmable phase nulling interferometer that extends the capability of a computer generated hologram (CGH) to null test a range of meter class telescope mirrors. The $113,030.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requires the construction of a brassboard Twyman-Green interferometer system with a 512x512 spatial light modulator...
This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $124,909, aims to develop a new manufacturing approach for deformable mirrors (DMs) by batch fabricating the stack actuator array. This innovation leverages Microscale's experience in developing stack actuator DM systems with integrated ASIC driver electronics, enabling...