This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Tentguild Engineering Co, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The $124,975.00 contract is for the development of a new photovoltaic (PV) array architecture that can autonomously and repeatedly self-deploy into a disk-like configuration from a vertical Mars lander or other equipment, independent of terrain. This innovative design offers advantages...
This is a firm fixed-price Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency, to Tentguild Engineering Co. The contract, valued at $729,793.00, is for the development and validation of a photovoltaic (PV) array design with unique and enabling characteristics, including the ability to be smoothly deployed from compact stowage with a total PV surface area up to and beyond 4,000 square meters. The design utilizes flexible PV...
<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Definitive Contract to Tentguild Engineering Co., a small business, for the development of software to enable the rapid comparative design of solar arrays. The $124,981.00 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract work is to be performed in Boulder, Colorado.</p>
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...
This is a $149,994.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded to PVT Clean Energy LLC by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the Phase 1 advanced material and structural design of a lightweight, stiff mounting system for a 50-kilowatt-class photovoltaic array. The work will be performed in Poughkeepsie, New York, and has a completion date of January 25, 2023. This contract award is set...
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...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc.'s Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS) division, in collaboration with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). The $124,974 firm fixed price contract is for the research and development of a modular, multi-junction photovoltaic flexible blanket technology that leverages SNC's surface mount technology (SMT) to enable high-power,...
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 contract award to Redwire Space Enterprises, Inc. (Deployable Space Systems, Inc. Division) is for the development of an innovative multi-junction photovoltaic flexible blanket technology to support solar electric propulsion (SEP) for human exploration and space science missions. The $749,618 firm fixed price contract, awarded by NASA under the SBIR Phase II program, aims to produce a lightweight, modular, and high-voltage solar array system with improved performance over current...
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...