SBIR/STTR Research Award
On-Board Pressurization Systems for Sample Return Missions
Award amount
$124,931Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-06-20
- Contract end date
- 2014-12-19
- 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 designing, fabricating and testing an electric pump for a Mars Ascent Vehicle compatible with LOX / propane produced via in-situ resource utilization to achieve significant performance improvements over the current baseline.
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
- High-Performance, Pump-Fed Propulsion for Mars Ascent Vehicle Applications
- Low-Cost and High-Performance Propulsion for Small Satellite Applications
- 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