SBIR/STTR Research Award
Precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly (PETA)
Award amount
$99,627Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Espace Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2011-02-18
- Contract end date
- 2011-09-29
- UEI
- PY5EKCUQN5Q6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.01
Research abstract
New low cost, low volume, low power, rugged electrospray thrusters will be ideal as actuators for precision thrusting, if provided with precision high voltage power supplies. The small thrusters show minimum thrusts of 1.2 nanoNewton, and thrusts scalable in a wide range to hundreds of microNewtons, with an ISp of 3500 sec. We propose in Phase I to develop, test and characterize with electrospray thrusters a high-precision high-voltage power supply optimized for fine control of the thrusters, and designed to support accurate formation flying of space telescope elements, and precision alignment and stabilization of space platforms. The Phase I HV supply design will be developed in Phase II into a cubesat format Precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly including thrusters, and ready for flight tests. At the end of Phase II PETA units will be provided as protoflight avionics to be flown, tested and qualified.
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.
- Precision Ion Nano Thruster
- Precision Ion Nano Thruster
- Bimodal Ion-Chemical Thruster System
- Bimodal Ion-Chemical Thruster System
- Precision Electrospray Thruster Assembly (PETA)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Robust Optical Edge for a Starshade Petal
- Proximity Glare Suppression for Astronomical Coronagraphy
- Polymer Coating-Based Contaminant Control/Elimination for Exo-S Starshade Probe
- Proximity Glare Suppression using Carbon Nanotubes
- Next-Generation Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Coronagraphy by Utilizing PMN-PT Single Crystal Stack Actuators in integration with Driver ASIC
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2024). Reported award amounts total $3,618,100. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense