SBIR/STTR Research Award
A high performance, electric pump-fed LOX / RP propulsion system
Award amount
$1,214,516Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-04-17
- Contract end date
- 2016-03-31
- UEI
- KXCVMPM1BB14
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- E1.02
Research abstract
To-date, the realization of small-scale, high-performance liquid bipropellant rocket engines has largely been limited by the inability to operate at high chamber pressures in a regeneratively-cooled environment using on-board pumps for propellant pressurization.
Ventions seeks to fulfill this critical need by using a novel fabrication scheme that builds on previously-demonstrated technologies (under DARPA and NASA sponsored efforts) to design, fabricate and hot-fire test a pump-fed, 3,000lbf LOX/RP propulsion system.
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
- On-Board Pressurization Systems for Sample Return Missions
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Platform Independent Launch Vehicle Avionics with GPS Metric Tracking
- Automated Flight Safety Inference Engine (AFSIE) System
- Wireless Intra-vehicle Communication System (WICS)
- Incremental Evolution of a 10/250 NLV into a 20/450 NMSLV
- Flexible Low Cost Avionics for NanoSatellite Launch Vehicle Control and GPS Metric Tracking
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