SBIR/STTR Research Award
Rigidized Torus for an Inflatable Solar Concentrator Flight Experiment
Award amount
$299,572Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SRS Technologies
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- CSCCUJ2JNLF3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The Air Force has a requirement for space based torus supported concentrators for space propulsion, power, and communications. A torus combining the packaging of an inflatable with the long term benefits of rigidization could enable the use of lightweightmembrane structures for DoD, NASA, and commercial missions. This design is survivable in ultraviolet, atomic oxygen, and space debris environments without off-gassing concerns. In Phase I, we demonstrated the feasibility of a regidized torus that willeliminate the torus make-up gas requirement thus enabling several proposed missions that require membrane concentrators. The Phase II will develop a
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- A Grid-Sphere Electrode for Tether Current Collection
- Concept for Tether Current Collection Using Grid -Sphere Electrodes
- Nuclear Isomer High Energy Density Storage System for Army Applications
- Active Controlled Membrane Mirrors with Shape Memory
- Rapid Target Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
Research funding history
107 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2004). Reported award amounts total $24,439,479. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
MANTECH SRS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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