Igneon Aerospace LLC

Igneon Aerospace LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Madison, Alabama, develops advanced green-propellant and dual-mode ascent thrusters for spacecraft propulsion applications as a prime contractor exclusively under small-business set-asides, with all nine recent awards in the federal R&D space distributed between NASA's Shared Services Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Igneon operates as a limited liability corporation and manufacturer of aerospace propulsion goods, competing entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract footprint. The company's capability portfolio centers on SBIR Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III development of non-toxic ascent thruster technology, including additively manufactured components and dual-mode reaction control subsystems. Representative recent work includes a $1.49 million NASA SBIR Phase III definitive contract for 5-newton-force Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic (ASCENT) thruster development (awarded August 1, 2026, completion April 30, 2027); a $1.59 million Air Force definitive contract for small throttlable ascent thruster development (awarded March 16, 2026, completion December 16, 2027); and a $214,490 NASA SBIR Phase I definitive contract for Rapid Ascent Propellant Thruster Response (RAPTR) development (awarded September 30, 2026, completion March 30, 2027). All work is performed in Triana, Alabama. The source material also references parallel awards to "Hyperion Aerospace LLC," described as a woman-owned small business with substantially identical propulsion work, scope, and performance location; the relationship between Igneon Aerospace LLC and Hyperion Aerospace LLC is not stated in the source.

Customer concentration is narrow and split evenly by volume. NASA's Shared Services Center holds four awards worth $1.8 million combined potential value, and the Air Force Research Laboratory holds four awards worth $1.5 million, with a single Air Force award (non-research-focused) carrying $1.6 million. The two rankings diverge slightly—the Air Force non-R&D program anchors most dollars despite representing one award, while research volume splits between NASA and AFRL equally. Activity has remained modest and cyclical (two awards in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, three in 2026) with combined potential value of $4.8 million across all nine awards. Three awards carrying $3.3 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Igneon's categorization is concentrated in research and development across physical, engineering, and life sciences (7 of 9 awards) with NAICS focus on R&D services and PSC split between national defense applied research and general science and technology basic research.