SBIR/STTR Research Award
Magnesium Diboride Superconducting Coils for Electric Propulsion Systems for Large Aircraft
Award amount
$600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- HYPER TECH RESEARCH INC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-12-01
- Contract end date
- 2006-12-01
- UEI
- YPG9JKMCSUA8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- A2.02
Research abstract
The recent development of magnesium diboride superconducting wires makes possible the potential to have much lighter weight superconducting coils for heavy aircraft motors than with any other potential metal or ceramic superconductor. The magnesium diboride superconductor can be cooled to 20 K by the liquid hydrogen fuel. The lighter weight coils, especially in the rotor, will enable a lighter weight support structure so the motor weight will be reduced even more for the same horsepower motor. For this NASA SBIR Phase II our objective is to design, construct, test, and assembly MgB2 rotor coil packs to replace the copper rotor coil packs for the cryogenic motor test bed being built for NASA
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.
- High Power Density Motors/Generators for Single and Double Aisle Passenger Aircraft using Multifilamentary High Purity Aluminum Coils at 20K
- High Power Density Motors/Generators for Single and Double Aisle Passenger Aircraft using Multifilamentary High Purity Aluminum Coils at 20K
- HIGH JC, LOW AC LOSS Nb3Sn Superconductor for 16-20 T Fusion
- Low AC Loss Cryogenic Aluminum Conductors for Stators in Very High Speed Motors and Generators for Electric Aircraft
- Ultra-High Thermal Conductivity Magnetic Electrical Insulation and Radiation Resistant Aluminum YBCO Cables
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Safety Analysis For Evaluating (SAFE) sUAS
- Autonomous Contingency Detection and Reaction for Unmanned Aircraft
- Compact High Power 3D LiDAR System for (UAS) Unmanned Aircraft Systems
- Windhover Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Software Ecosystem
- NExT ADS-B - An Affordable Architecture for ADS-B Coverage to the Surface for UAS in the NAS
Research funding history
102 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2025). Reported award amounts total $40,663,857. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services