SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Comet Surface Sample Return System
Award amount
$123,761Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-05-23
- Contract end date
- 2013-11-23
- UEI
- F7UHKQTEYHW8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.07
Research abstract
The proposed Phase I investigation will focus on the development of spacecraft systems required to obtain a sample from the nucleus of a comet, hermetically seal the sample within a capsule, and return the sealed sample to an orbiting spacecraft which can return the sample to Earth. A preliminary systems level concept has been developed. This concept will be refined during the proposed Phase I investigation, including proof-of-concept breadboards and analyses of critical subsystems.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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