SBIR/STTR Research Award
Demonstration of a Passive Thermal Management System for Cooling Electronics in Extreme Environments
Award amount
$99,907Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2011-02-18
- Contract end date
- 2011-08-18
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S5.05
Research abstract
Extended operation of exploratory systems on the surface of planets like Venus, means that techniques to cool system electronics to essentially room temperature (30ºC) while the ambient temperature is over 470ºC must be developed and demonstrated. This proposal discloses a patent-pending passive thermal management system (TMS) capable of providing electronic system cooling at 30ºC, while rejecting heat to ambient temperatures above 500ºC. This Phase I effort includes performance demonstration experiments in a representative thermal environment. These experiments will demonstrate a TMS system with a system mass of less than 0.22 kg/W/day, that provides passive isothermal temperature control, with no moving parts.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Research funding history
518 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $184,860,329. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency