SBIR/STTR Research Award
HYPERVELOCITY FOR AEROTHERMODYNAMIC EXPERIMENTS
Award amount
$499,005Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- IAP RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- WBU3RUKH8DY8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYPERSONIC AEROSPACE VEHICLES REQUIRES DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE AEROTHERMODYNAMIC (ATD) ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE VEHICLE WILL BE OPERATED. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ATD PARAMETERS AT GREATER THAN 6KM/S IS PRESENTLY NOT FEASIBLE. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY BASE AND DEMONSTRATE AN ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN SYSTEM CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING GREATER THAN 6KM/S LAUNCH VELOCITY. THE OBJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DISTRIBUTED, ENERGY-STORAGE CONCEPT FOR POWERING RAILGUNS TOPUSH THE SYSTEM ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY TO MORE THAN 80 PERCENT. THIS HIGH EFFICIENCY AT HYPERVELOCITY WILL MAKE ATD TESTING AT GREATER THAN 6KM/S FEASIBLE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYPERSONIC AEROSPACE VEHICLES REQUIRES DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE AEROTHERMODYNAMIC (ATD) ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE VEHICLE WILL BE OPERATED. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ATD PARAMETERS AT GREATER THAN 6KM/S IS PRESENTLY NOT FEASIBLE. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY BASE AND DEMONSTRATE AN ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN SYSTEM CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING GREATER THAN 6KM/S LAUNCH VELOCITY. THE OBJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DISTRIBUTED, ENERGY-STORAGE CONCEPT FOR POWERING RAILGUNS TOPUSH THE SYSTEM ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY TO MORE THAN 80 PERCENT. THIS HIGH EFFICIENCY AT HYPERVELOCITY WILL MAKE ATD TESTING AT GREATER THAN 6KM/S FEASIBLE.
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.
- SiC-Based High Voltage Capacitor Charging Innovations
- Field effects in processing lightweight materials with superior mechanical properties and microstructures
- Innovative, shock-load resistant Pulsed Power supply.
- Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation
- Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2017). Reported award amounts total $21,413,397. 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