SBIR/STTR Research Award
Multifunctional, Boron-Foam Based Radiation Shielding
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ATS-MER, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2005-01-21
- Contract end date
- 2005-07-25
- UEI
- F8HABDW7DVG8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- B3.09
Research abstract
The NASA vision of Space Exploration requires new approaches to radiation shielding. Both Spiral 2 and Spiral 3 concepts are extremely sensitive to weight reduction. Currently used thermal protection (TPS) and radiation shielding concepts are separate identities. As a result, the net weight of current TPS/radiation shielding concepts is very significant. In an effort to greatly reduce the mass of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a totally new concept is proposed. It merges a novel approach to TPS combined with a totally new approach to radiation shielding. A boron carbide foam will be produced by a novel method. This foam will be integrated into a CEV TPS concept. As a result, the TPS will serve a multiple function including radiation shielding resulting in a significant weight saving.
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.
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- Large Parts Additive Manufacturing
- High Value Carbon Products from Domestic Coal
- Ultra-lightweight Lubrication Free Hybrid Carbon Composite Ring-less Piston Engines for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
- Solid State Non-powder Process for Boron Nitride Nanotube Metal Matrix Composite
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Modeling, Testing and Deploying a Multifunctional Radiation Shielding / Hydrogen Storage Unit
- Radiation Shielding and Hydrogen Storage with Multifunctional Carbon
- Nanocomposite for Radiation Shielding
- Database of Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Cross Sections by Stochastic Simulation
Research funding history
464 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2018). Reported award amounts total $100,117,977. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation