SBIR/STTR Research Award
Thermal Protection System (TPS) for Aggressive Reentry Trajectories of Space Vehicles
Award amount
$749,456Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- POWDERMET INC
- Proposal award date
- 2005-04-29
- Contract end date
- 2007-07-29
- UEI
- TK9JT3DMDW14
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- AF04-031
Research abstract
This Phase II SBIR program will complete development of closed-cell SiC foam TPS materials suitable for application to Hypersonic Cruise Vehicles for application up to 450BTU/ft2/sec. Specifically, the program will take these high strenth, high temperature TPS materials from a TRL of 2-3, to a TRL of 5-6 (flight-ready) by completing manufacturing process refinement/materials optimization, building a materials property database, completing TPS sizing analysis, and producing and testing wedge models in the IHF 60MW ground test facility.
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.
- Development of Anisotropic Sintered NdFeB Magnet Consolidation Capacity
- Rapid Net Shape Fabrication of Complex Shapes
- Rare Earth Free Motor Designs with MnBi
- Rapid Manufacturing of Sintered NdFeB Permanent Magnets
- Thermally Engineered Gradient Refractory Metal Matrix Hot-Structures for Hypersonics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Refractory Matrix Composites for CAV TPS
- Si-N-B-C Aerogels for Thermal Protection System of Reentry Vehicles
- Chemical Vapor Composite Materials for Thermal Protection Systems in Aggressive Reentry Space Vehicles
- Thermal Protection System (TPS) for Agressive Reentry Trajectories of Space Vehicles
- Refractory Matrix Composites for CAV TPS
Research funding history
123 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2024). Reported award amounts total $29,889,391. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation