SBIR/STTR Research Award
Long Life, Catalytic Advanced Green Monopropellant Thrusters
Award amount
$125,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SIENNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2017-12-08
- UEI
- W8VZALJ8J617
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.02
Research abstract
Sienna Technologies, Inc, proposes to develop a robust, long life, catalytically ignited thruster that can perform multiple cold starts at low preheat temperatures (<<425˚C) using high performance green AF-M315E monopropellant that can provide a range of mission specific thrust levels for NASA SMD's sample return missions. In Phase I we will improve upon Sienna's industry leading SSC-111 catalyst and demonstrate its multiple cold start capability at low preheat temperatures (well below state-of-the-art 425˚C) in sea-level laboratory tests.
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.
- Long Life Cathode Heaters for Hollow Cathodes
- Reliable UHTC Ceramic-Metal Joints for Hypersonic Applications
- Vacuum Compatible High Gradient Insulators
- High Performance Plasma Channel Insulators for High Power Hall Thrusters
- Wideband Microwave Absorbers Cryogenic Vacuum Applications in Accerators
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Monofilament Vaporization Propulsion (MVP) System
- Green Monopropellant Propulsion for Small Spacecrafts
- Cathode for Electric Space Propulsion Utilizing Iodine as Propellant
- Adaptive Venturi for Monopropellant Feed Systems
- I-Sail: 2500-Square-Meter Solar Sail Prototype Demonstrator
Research funding history
61 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2017). Reported award amounts total $13,380,891. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation