EXQUADRUM INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Z8
EXQUADRUM INC — 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 $131,477. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code Z8 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $131,477
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- Z8
- Solicitation
- SBIR_21_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-05-18 → 2021-11-19
Description
During the proposed Phase I research and development effort, the project team will integrate previously demonstrated technologies into a low-cost solid rocket motor to serve as a cis-lunar transfer stage to guide and propel small spacecraft on Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) trajectories. The resulting solid rocket motor will meet requirements for Mass Fraction and Specific Impulse that will enable it to achieve the NASA targeted lunar orbits. Key stage component will be fabricated and demonstrated in hot-fire, static testing. The Phase I project will demonstrate the solid rocket motor design fits within the constraints of a particular small launch vehicle. The proposed project team will develop a plan for a follow-on Phase II flight demonstration program.