Project Grant 80NSSC19K1554

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $250,000.00 in funding to the Colorado School of Mines to develop stimulus-responsive adsorbents for the controlled storage and delivery of low boiling fuels to mobile assets in permanently shaded regions. The award, titled "POWER ON THE DARK SIDE: STIMULUS-RESPONSIVE ADSORBENTS FOR LOW-ENERGY CONTROLLED STORAGE AND DELIVERY OF LOW BOILING FUELS...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to advance the development of an electromechanical mass transfer system for space operations. The project aims to create a novel platform that can enable cost-effective movement of resources on the lunar surface and other low-gravity environments without the use of consumable fuels or onboard propulsion systems. The work will focus...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,874,838 Cooperative Agreement to Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to develop an innovative aluminum (Al) air energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system. The goal is to meet ARPA-E's PROPEL 1K program targets for zero-emissions, high energy density, and high efficiency to enable electrification across the aviation, rail, maritime, and trucking industries. The project team, which includes the University of...

This $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Onyx Aerospace Inc.'s development of an additively manufactured, non-toxic, advanced storable hybrid rocket propulsion system. Specifically, the company will develop a thermoplastic-based fuel with electrical ignition properties suitable for cubesats. They will test fuel formulations for compatibility with the ignition...

This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will support Stoke Space Technologies, Inc. to develop reusable upper stages for space launch vehicles. Specifically, the small business will build a full-scale prototype heat shield and test it under simulated ascent and atmospheric reentry conditions. Testing will occur in phases of increasing complexity, with data from each phase used to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Technologies (USNC-Space) a $124,592.39 Project Grant under the Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012) to design a compact radioisotope-electric-propulsion spacecraft powered by a novel chargeable atomic battery (CAB). The CAB technology aims to enable spacecraft delta-V capabilities on the order of 100 km/s with a power system specific mass of 5-8 kg/kWe. The award period runs from March 8, 2021...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,037,399 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to General Electric Company's GE Research Division. The goal of this 12-month project is to design, manufacture, and test a 20 kg composite liquid hydrogen (LH2) storage tank that is scalable to larger capacities of 60-120 kg for heavy trucks and 200-1000 kg for aircraft. The project will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research conducted by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to explore new strategies for employing "safe" high energy dense fuels. The $377,828 project, awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028, will focus on three key tasks: 1) obtaining structure-function relationships through systematic changes in molecular structure and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced propellant-less propulsion system for small satellites by Field Propulsion Technologies Inc., a small business based in Aurora, Colorado. The project aims to create a prototype propulsion device utilizing a specialized metamaterial based on graphene composite that can generate thrust through unresolved...

Rocket Propulsion Systems LLC received a $255,993 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a liquid oxygen-methane engine for small satellite launch vehicles. Funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this 12-month award will support the design and testing of an engine using liquid oxygen and methane propellants. The Engineering program seeks to improve engineering research and education to foster innovation and...