SBIR/STTR Research Award
Durable Fabric for Mitigating Rocket Plume Interactions to Enable Expeditionary Landing Area in Terrestrial Point-to-Point Rapid Rocket Cargo Logistics
Award amount
$1,249,814Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Astroport Space Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-08-31
- Contract end date
- 2025-02-28
- UEI
- S4TMLJ697K15
- Solicitation number
- 22.4
- Topic code
- SF224-D024
Research abstract
Vertically landing a rocket on an improved, flat surface has been shown technically feasible by a number of commercial launch vehicle companies (Masten Space, SpaceX, Blue Origin). However, for terrestrial point-to-point (P2P) rocket cargo missions where
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.
- Brickbot for Lunar Surface Subscale Technology Demonstration
- Deployable Surface Cover for Lunar Surface Operations During Launch and Landing
- Bulk Regolith Handling Technologies for Landing/Launch Pad Site Preparation and Blast Shield Construction
- Brickbot Induction Furnace-Nozzle 2.0 Technology Demonstration for Lunar Landing/Launch Pad Construction
- Conveyance, Filtering, and Feed System for Lunar Brickbot Technology Demonstrator for Landing Pad Construction
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High Temperature Syntactic Foam for Landing Interaction Protection
- On-Demand Portable Pad for Vertical Landed Rockets
Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2025). Reported award amounts total $3,675,939. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense