SBIR/STTR Research Award
Health Interrogation for Space Structures (HISS)
Award amount
$124,783Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- INVOCON, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2017-12-08
- UEI
- LZQCQX2HPGN5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Z11.01
Research abstract
Invocon's Health Interrogation for Space Structures (HISS) system provides a significant improvement over current alternatives for monitoring pressurized space structures for leaks and impacts. HISS will quickly detect and locate leaks based on their acoustic emissions or other signature. It will provide prompt warnings to flight and ground personnel in order to help save the vehicle (and mission). It will also complement the present Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) capabilities by providing leak location as well as warning of the leak up to several minutes before the ECLSS. The primary transducers with which HISS interfaces are acoustic emissions. However, Invocon plans to design HISS so that it will interface with other types of sensors in order to maximize its usefulness. This will allow HISS to be used for many other flight and ground monitoring applications.
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.
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Wireless Intra-vehicle Sensor Package for Enhanced Reliability (WISPER)
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Wireless Sensor Network for Flight Test
- Reliable, Safe, Lithium-ion Battery Enabled by a Robust Battery Management System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Microwave-Interrogated Embedded Sensor System for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of Complex Structures
- Millimeter-Wave Camera
Research funding history
55 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2019). Reported award amounts total $12,310,094. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services