SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Performance, Pump-Fed Propulsion for Mars Ascent Vehicle Applications
Award amount
$124,746Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-06-17
- Contract end date
- 2015-12-17
- UEI
- KXCVMPM1BB14
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S4.03
Research abstract
To-date, the realization of high-performance liquid bipropellant rocket engines for ascent vehicle and sample return applications has largely been hindered by the inability to obtain "on-board" pressurization through a light-weight and low-complexity pump. Ventions seeks to fulfill this critical need by optimizing a MON-30 electric pump previously built under an earlier NASA SBIR to offer further efficiency improvements, and to provide a competitive liquid bipropellant propulsion system as an alternative to the existing solid / hybrid propellant designs for a Mars Ascent Vehicle.
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.
- Electric Pump Fed Propulsion for a Liquid Bipropellant Mars Ascent Vehicle
- Small-Scale, Methane-Fueled Reaction Control Engines for In-Space Propulsion
- Low-Cost and High-Performance Propulsion for Small Satellite Applications
- On-Board Pressurization Systems for Sample Return Missions
- A high performance, electric pump-fed LOX / RP propulsion system
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Novel Hybrid Propulsion System for Sample Return Missions
- Advanced Ignition System for Hybrid Rockets for Sample Return Missions
- Novel Hybrid Propulsion System for Sample Return Missions
- Additively Manufactured Monolithic Catalyst Bed for Green Propellants
Research funding history
19 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2016). Reported award amounts total $7,063,533. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense