This SBIR Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $785,000.00 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business. The goal is to develop a deployable, offset-fed paraboloidal mesh reflector antenna that can operate onboard small, low-cost satellites like CubeSats at frequencies up to 100 GHz. The contract aims to fully test the performance characteristics of a prototype antenna with an aperture greater...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business, for the development of a low-loss deployable reflector antenna at frequencies up to 200 gigahertz (GHz) for small satellites. The contract has a firm fixed price of $124,994.00 and a completion date of November 19, 2021. Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC is an engineering company that...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC a $799,978 firm fixed price contract to develop low-loss deployable reflector antennas at frequencies up to 200 gigahertz for small satellites as part of Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract will be performed in Boulder, Colorado over a period of two years ending in May 2024. The award was set aside for total small...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Alpha Omega Electromagnetics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The objective is to develop and demonstrate an advanced, deployable, high-gain, active reflect array antenna for use in high data rate transmission to, from and among small spacecraft. The contract has a potential value of $124,616.00 and is set aside for...
This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Tendeg LLC, a small business based in Louisville, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a deployable Ka-band mesh antenna that can fit within a 2U-3U CubeSat form factor and deploy to sizes of 0.8-1.5 meters in diameter. The goal is to enable high-bandwidth communications and high-resolution atmospheric sensing from small satellite platforms. The contract has a total ceiling value of $124,934 and was awarded on a Firm Fixed Price...
Tendeg LLC, a small business, was awarded a $124,860 firm-fixed-price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to design and develop an advanced deployable parabolic antenna for a specific NASA science mission. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program and focuses on creating a prototype deployment mechanism and shape-forming net for a high-packaging-efficiency antenna system suitable for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,972 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to MMA Design LLC, a limited liability company that manufactures innovative packaging solutions for space missions. The contract is for the research and development of a deployable, dual-band cylindrical parabolic antenna operating at 35 gigahertz (GHz) and 94 GHz frequencies. This technology is intended to enable future satellite missions with...
This is a $124,945 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Gatr Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract is for the development of a large aperture reflector antenna system for CubeSats that can be stored by collapsing, folding, or rolling, and then deployed to provide high-gain communications capabilities. Gatr Technologies will team with the...
This is a $30,000 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business contractor. The contract is for the development of a mesh-based reflector for Ka-band operation, which is a type of specialized remote sensing instrument for environmental observations. This contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III,...
This contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Kymeta Government Solutions, Inc. for the design, analysis, build, test, and delivery of a small, lightweight, low-cost, low-power electronically steered prototype antenna for use on CubeSat antennas in low Earth orbit. The contract is part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I, with a ceiling value of $124,608.00. The antenna uses a tunable dielectric material and an array of...