NEAR SPACE CORP — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S3
NEAR SPACE CORP — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from National Aeronautics and Space Administration in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $124,779. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $124,779
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S3
- Solicitation
- SBIR_21_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- 2021-05-18 → 2021-11-19
Description
The proposed effort focuses on Deployment and Inflation, two critical Entry, Descent, and Flight phases required for successful Venus Aerobot missions.nbsp; While suitable platform designs must be optimized for the science portion of the flight, they must first survive both the deployment and inflation phases.nbsp; Phase I develops techniques for providing a controlled low g deployment and facilitating the inflation process by helping to align the multi-cell envelops to help mitigate potential damaged from excessive deployment shock loads or flagging during inflation.nbsp; Phase I culminates with hangar tests of off the shelf deployment hardware with representative Aerobot envelop configurations to help determine the feasibility of the approach.nbsp; Phase II will focus on creating mission specific prototype hardware and validating the techniques with a flight test.