SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additively Manufactured Low Power Thrusters for Secondary Payloads
Award amount
$125,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Arctic Slope Technical Services
- Proposal award date
- 2016-06-10
- Contract end date
- 2016-12-09
- UEI
- SGK5EGB9VQM8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.02
Research abstract
Arctic Slope Technical Services, ASTS, is pleased to propose this innovative approach for reducing the cost and power requirements for an electrically-heated, stored gas thruster well-suited for use in small spacecraft and satellites (CubeSats and NanoSats especially). The thruster features exceptionally-high heat transfer from the heaters to the gas, which will provide excellent Isp performance at much lower power than traditional thrusters. We will also use an additive manufacturing approach, which will greatly reduce production costs.
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.
- Additively Manufactured, Thermally Stable Telescope Mirror Substrates
- Additively Manufactured Bimetallic Combustion Chambers for Small Launch Vehicles
- Additive Manufacturing of Telescope Mirrors
- Additively Manufactured Monolithic Catalyst Bed for Green Propellants
- Multipulse Solid Rocket Motors for MAV
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
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2014–2017). Reported award amounts total $2,294,656. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense
Contractor profile
ARCTIC SLOPE TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.
Historical federal award activity, when published, is on that contractor profile. Matched by UEI only.
Agency intelligence
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAICS intelligence
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