SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Plasma Source for Generation and Inflation of Large Scale Magnetospheres
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MSNW LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- ZUJKEA8YLMC6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Magnetospheric plasma propulsion is a novel propulsion scheme that makes use of the ambient energy of the solar wind by coupling to the solar wind through a large-scale ( 10 km) magnetic bubble or mini-magnetosphere. The magnetosphere is produced by the injection of plasma on to the magnetic field of a small ( 1, so that field expansion is immediate. The RMF assures inflation by driving currents throughout the magnetosphere, and is virtually propellantless as it sweeps in the intercepted solar wind to build and sustain the magnetosphere. Under phase I, a prototype source would be 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.
- Time-Resolved Electron Beam Fluorescence
- Modular EP Diagnostic Instrumentation Cluster (MEDIC)
- Electric-based Combined Cycle Thruster for Multi-mode Propulsion
- ISS Launched Cubesat Demonstration of Variable-Drag Magnetoshell Aerocapture
- Combustion Enhanced Electric Propulsion
Research funding history
26 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2017). Reported award amounts total $8,094,788. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy