SBIR/STTR Research Award
Main Injector Development for Reusable Methane Rocket Engine
Award amount
$1,900,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Ursa Major Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-09-12
- Contract end date
- 2027-06-14
- UEI
- N7GDJHB2VBU4
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- AF192-001
Research abstract
Ursa Major will advance Arroway, a methane-LOX engine within Ursa’s Full Flow Staged Combustion (FFSC) product family by furthering the engine’s main injector design, targeted at a high-thrust booster application. This effort will leverage Ursa’s extensive experience base on Hadley, Ripley and build upon recent progress made via the FY22 program with Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which advanced readiness for key Arroway major components including the thrust chamber, oxygen preburner, and oxygen turbopump. Additionally, initial manufacturing trials on the main combustion chamber were completed and subscale preburner injector testing is planned to complete in 2025.
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.
- Ursa Major Technologies, Inc. Direct to Phase II Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
- Next Generation Upper Stage Engine for National Security Launches
- Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
- Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need - Hypersonics Pitch Day
- Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Adaptive Neural Machine Translation Solution OCR Research and Domain-Adaptation Scaling Prototype
- ObsSIM Modeling & Simulation Support - AFLINX Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)
- The NPS Multi-band Sensor Suite
- FlightWave Edge-130 VTOL UAS TACFI
- Space Based ISR for Anti-Access Area Denial Environments
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2025). Reported award amounts total $3,799,843. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense