SBIR/STTR Research Award
Heat Energy to Light Advanced Conversion and Transmission System
Award amount
$124,802Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ATOMOS NUCLEAR AND SPACE CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2021-05-17
- Contract end date
- 2021-11-19
- UEI
- MK8KXNNB85D5
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_21_P1
- Topic code
- Z1
Research abstract
Atomos Nuclear and Space Corporation (Atomos) proposes a completely new method of power transmission as coherent infrared (IR) radiation. nbsp;HELIACTS (Heat Energy to LIght Advanced Conversion and Transmission System) is a novel power generation, transmission and conversion schema that is inherently solid-state and long lived, more efficient and less massive over-all than systems relying on electromechanical energy conversion and electrical transmission.nbsp; Narrowband emitters allow thermal energy to be converted to coherent IR radiation, which is transmitted via anti-resonant hollow-core fibers to the load, where it can be optimally converted to support specific load requirements.
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.
- Evolved Propellant Transfer Interface - High Pressure Propellant Capable
- Characterization of plume-target interactions for safe rendezvous and detumbling of uncontrolled assets
- Verification of Third-Party Rendezvous with Refueling Tanker on 5DOF Validation Testbed
- Adaptation of on-board mission planner for semi-autonomous RPO operations and abort procedures
- A Novel Method for De-Tumbling Resident Space Objects with OTV Thruster Plumes
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2024). Reported award amounts total $5,381,576. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration