SBIR/STTR Research Award
Affordable, Precision Reflector Mold Technology (PDRT08-029)
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-01-22
- Contract end date
- 2009-07-22
- UEI
- S7F9G286FXX8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.03
Research abstract
Advances in replication mold technology that reduce material costs, grinding time, and polishing time would enable fabrication of large, precision molds and possibly optics at 50-75% lower cost. Mold cost savings could be applied to other aspects of a telescope mission's technology development and demonstration efforts to reduce large aperture far infrared telescope areal density and improve optical technical performance.
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