SBIR/STTR Research Award
MICROGRAVITY SONIC PUMP LEVITATOR FURNACE
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Orbital Technologies Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- XESXD6N437K9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROJECT PROPOSES TO ADVANCE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN MICROGRAVITY CONTAINERLESS PROCESSING AND RESEARCH. THE MICROGRAVITY SONIC PUMP FURNACE (MSPF) CONCEPT IS BASED UPON THE SONIC PUMP LEVITATOR PRINCIPLE THAT PROVIDES RAPID POSITION CONTROL AT MODEST ACCELERATIONS FOR SAMPLES UP TO 4 CM IN DIAMETER, WHILE THE SAMPLE IS HEATED AND MELTED UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS. SPECIFIC SENSOR SYSTEMS WILL BE USED TO MONITOR THE STATE CONDITION OF THE SAMPLE AS IT UNDERGOES PROCESSING. THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROJECT WILL REVIEW THE APPLICABILITY OF THE TECHNOLOGY IN MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH, WILL IMPROVE THE THEORY AND ENGINEERING ANALYSIS MODELS AND DEVELOP A PRELIMINARY DESIGN CONCEPT.
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 Performance Nanolauncher
- Plastic Melt Waste Compactor Flight Demonstrator Payload (PFDP)
- Miniature Nontoxic Nitrous Oxide-Propane (MINNOP) Propulsion
- Zero G Mass Measurement Device (ZGMMD)
- Ultra High Repetition Rate Multi-Parameter Imaging Diagnostics for Reacting Flows
Research funding history
216 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2014). Reported award amounts total $56,646,148. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy