SBIR/STTR Research Award
SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC TESTING OF SPACE STUCTURES
Award amount
$730,842Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- CSA Engineering, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- YHFYUZLGV5G3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
REALISTIC GROUND VIBRATION TESTING OF FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT REQUIRES A MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE TEST ARTICLE IN 1-G WITHOUT IMPOSING CONSTRAINT FORCES DUE TO STIFFNESS, MASS, DAMPING, OR FRICTION. SPACECRAFT HAVING LARGE, FLEXIBLE APPENDAGES WITH HIGH AREA/MASS RATIOS ARE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE AIR EFFECTS REQUIRE THAT THEY BE TESTED IN A VACUUM. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL ATTEMPT TO ENHANCE THE PNEUMATIC-MAGNETIC SUSPENSION SYSTEM DEVELOPED EARLIER BY CSA ENGINEERING TO OPERATE IN A VACUUM AND TO ACCOMMODATE VERTICAL MOTIONS OF UP TO SIX INCHES. OTHER DESIGN GOALS WILL INCLUDE VERTICAL SUSPENSION FREQUENCY OF 0.1 HZ OR LOWER AND FRICTION LESS THAN 0.005% OF PAYLOAD WEIGHT. IN PHASE I, A SINGLE SUSPENSION DEVICE WILL BE DESIGNED, BUILT, AND TESTED.
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.
- Adaptive Filtering for Aeroservoelastic Response Suppression
- Optical Ground Vibration Test System
- ESPA for Lunar and Science Missions
- Low Cost, Modular-Open Architecture Structures for Rapid Response Satellite Bus Applications
- System for Simulation and Measurement of Spacecraft and Component Vibration
Research funding history
118 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2008). Reported award amounts total $27,683,944. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation