SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Cost Turbopump for Expendable Launch Technology
Award amount
$149,906Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- EXQUADRUM INC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-09-15
- Contract end date
- 2016-10-12
- UEI
- H369JK4TTZ24
- Solicitation number
- 2015.2
- Topic code
- SB152-008
Research abstract
Extremely low-cost, lightweight, and high performance expendable upper stages are critical to meeting DARPAs goals for low-cost launch.Engines are the most expensive element of the upper stage, and the turbopump is the most expensive component of the engine.The proposed research will develop and demonstrate a design and manufacturing approach that reduces cost more than an order-of-magnitude while retaining state-of-the-art high performance and lowering weight by exploiting modern physics-based design and analysis tools and low-cost manufacturing technologies.
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.
- ULTRA-VK Exoatmospheric Flight Test
- RAMEN-HPMOP for On Demand Microclimate Control
- Low-cost Objective Kinetic Interceptor DACS (LOKI DACS)
- DACS Verde (Low Cost Green Propellant)
- Electric Pulse Ignition Controllable SRM (EPICS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Liquid Fueled Target Vehicle Capability
- Low Cost Expendable Launch Technology
- Architected C/C Cooling Structures
- Novel Propellant, High-Energy Upper Stage Development
- Low Cost Expendable Launch Technology
Research funding history
71 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $34,293,675. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy