SBIR/STTR Research Award
Plasma Environment Simulator for OSAM Operations
Award amount
$240,404Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PLASMA CONTROLS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-07-05
- Contract end date
- 2022-12-05
- UEI
- F4ZMTET4HH56
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
On-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (OSAM) operations will take place in challenging LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite orbits, each having unique weakly ionized plasma environments. On orbit, Resident Space Objects (RSOs) experience low temperature
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.
- High Current Electron Source for Multimode Electric Propulsion Systems
- Energy and Velocity Analyzer for Distributions of Electric Rockets
- Iodine Hollow Cathode
- Iodine Hollow Cathode
- Additive Manufacturing of Ion Thruster Optics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- On-orbit AI-driven Automation for Range Characterization Analysis
- Biomimetic System for Autonomous On-Orbit Capture
- Development of an analysis tool for automatic defect detection during on-orbit additive manufacturing process
- Nautilus Capture Mechanism Configuration: A Study to Compare Tolerances of Electrostatic and Gecko-like Adhesion of Spacecraft Docking System for Long-Duration Space Missions
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,590,175. 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, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation