SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Manufacturing of Ion Thruster Optics
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- PLASMA CONTROLS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-05-07
- Contract end date
- 2017-05-06
- UEI
- F4ZMTET4HH56
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.02
Research abstract
Plasma Controls will manufacture and test several sets of ion optics for electric propulsion ion thrusters using additive manufacturing technology, also known as 3D printing. Additive manufacturing can potentially produce optics with novel or complex geometry that have better performance compared to those made traditionally, while also giving cost and mass savings.
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.
- High Current Electron Source for Multimode Electric Propulsion Systems
- Plasma Environment Simulator for OSAM Operations
- Energy and Velocity Analyzer for Distributions of Electric Rockets
- Iodine Hollow Cathode
- Iodine Hollow Cathode
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
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,590,175. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation