SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Impulse, Scalable, Metal Plasma Thruster for Cubesat Missions
Award amount
$124,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ALAMEDA APPLIED SCIENCES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2018-07-27
- Contract end date
- 2019-02-15
- UEI
- KFQ5MZYFRJ99
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_18_P1
- Topic code
- Z8
Research abstract
Alameda Applied Sciences has an opportunity (by working with Novawurks of Los Alamitos, CA) to secure flight heritage for its Metal Plasma Thruster (MPT-X). The MPT-X is an Electric Propulsion Thruster that delivers >4000 Ns of total impulse from a 1U package, with no moving parts, liquids or gases to be handled. The TRL-4 prototypes have been developed through several generations over two years. This SBIR affords an opportunity to integrate the MPT into Novawurks HISat platform and obtain flight heritage, to be followed by commercial sales to other satelliet builders and for NASA deep space missions.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High-Impulse, Scalable, Metal Plasma Thruster for Cubesat Missions
- High-Impulse, Scalable, Metal Plasma Thruster for Cubesat Missions
- (Seamless, Niobium Coated Copper Cavities for SRF accelerators) LOC's -Biased deposition of Nb-on-Electro-Hydro-Formed-Cu cavities for SRF accelerators
- Biased deposition of Nb-on-Cu for SRF accelerators
- Nb-on-Cu cavities for 700-1500 MHz SRF accelerators
Research funding history
102 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1996–2021). Reported award amounts total $29,019,816. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services