SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Energy Electronic Ignition System for NOFBX Thrusters
Award amount
$696,448Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Firestar Engineering, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2013-01-16
- Contract end date
- 2015-01-15
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- O2.02
Research abstract
NOFBX propulsion technology is being developed actively for a number of applications including a flight experiment on the International Space Station NOFBX propellant has unique electrical properties that allow the potential for development of an extremely low energy ignition mechanism when coupled with the design of an NOFBX combustion chamber. This has the potential for dramatically reducing the volume, mass, voltage, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions. The development we are proposing is a very low energy ignition system that utilizes the unique attributes of the NOFBXTM propellant that minimizes the volume, mass, and voltage of a block redundant system to be used in NOFBX propulsion systems.
Technology keywords
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