SBIR/STTR Research Award
Noncontaminating Optical-Bench Structures for Small Satellites
Award amount
$69,843Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Applied Material Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The innovation being proposed in this project is the development of an ultra lightweight, noncontaminating dimensionally stable optical bench structural material product for small-sat applications. Candidate materials for the proposed structural material product, a sandwich structure, include: foamed SiC core with C-C facesheets, foamed SiC/A1 core with SiC facesheets, foamed SiC isogrid with SiC or C-C facesheets, and C-C honeycomb with C-C or SiC facesheets.
Technology keywords
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