SBIR/STTR Research Award
Affordable, Precision Reflector Mold Technology (PDRT08-029-1)
Award amount
$599,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-03-09
- Contract end date
- 2012-04-02
- UEI
- S7F9G286FXX8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.03
Research abstract
Future NASA missions including the Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT) and Global Atmospheric Composition Mission (GACM), require 1 to 4 meter aperture, submillimeter-wavelength, primary reflector (mirror) segments. Astigmatic surface errors in a composite primary reflector and inconsistent radius of curvature in composite reflector segments limit application of composites to instruments. This project proposes to improve upon state-of-the-art passive reflector surface accuracy by characterizing the behavior and properties of actuated, graphite composite reflector laminates and panels that are suitable for space and earth science instruments. Surface error in composite primary reflectors and inconsistent radius of curvature in composite reflector segments currently limit application of composites to submillimeter wavelength primary mirrors. The goal is to minimize surface error including ROC error.
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.
- Advanced Solar Array for Dual Launch GPS
- Synchronized Modular Integrated Deployable Array (P-DoD12-003)
- Low Cost, Cosmic Microwave Background Telescopes (P-NASA12-003-1)
- ParaSol - A Novel Deployable Approach for Very Large Ultra-lightweight Solar Arrays
- Very Large Ultra-Lightweight Affordable Smart Solar Array
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra-Stable Zero-CTE HoneySiC and H2CMN Mirror Support Structures
- Rapid Fabrication of High Stability Optical Mirror Blanks
- Advanced Athermal Telescopes
- 3D Printed Silicon Carbide Scalable to Meter-Class Segments for Far-Infrared Surveyor
- Additive Manufactured Very Light Weight Diamond Turned Aspheric Mirror
Research funding history
76 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2015). Reported award amounts total $25,067,356. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy