SBIR/STTR Research Award
Small, Light-Weight Pump Technology for On-Board Pressurization of Propellants in a Mars Ascent Vehicle
Award amount
$598,832Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-12-28
- Contract end date
- 2011-12-27
- UEI
- KXCVMPM1BB14
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S5.04
Research abstract
To-date, the realization of high-performance liquid bipropellant rocket engines in the micro-scale has largely been hindered by the inability to obtain "on-board" pressurization through a light-weight and low-complexity pump. Ventions seeks to fulfill this critical need by proposing the development of a low-risk pump that can be batch fabricated in a low-cost manner to provide significant performance improvements for a Mars Ascent Vehicle and other spacecraft.
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.
- Electric Pump Fed Propulsion for a Liquid Bipropellant Mars Ascent Vehicle
- Small-Scale, Methane-Fueled Reaction Control Engines for In-Space Propulsion
- High-Performance, Pump-Fed Propulsion for Mars Ascent Vehicle Applications
- Low-Cost and High-Performance Propulsion for Small Satellite Applications
- On-Board Pressurization Systems for Sample Return Missions
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- An Open-Source Simulation Environment for Model-Based Engineering
- Model Annotations and Tools for Teamwork, Execution, and Reuse (MATTER)
- Application of SystemVerilog to Science Mission Simulation
- Integrated Visualization Environment for Science Mission Modeling
- Integrated Modeling, Analysis, and Verification for Space Missions
Research funding history
19 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2016). Reported award amounts total $7,063,533. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense