EAGLE HARBOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF192-044

EAGLE HARBOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$149,926
Agency
Department of Defense · Air Force
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
AF192-044
Solicitation
19.2
NAICS
Place of performance
WA
Period
2020-03-06 → 2020-12-06

Description

Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. (EHT) with its subcontractor, the University of Michigan (UM), proposes to develop a highly-versatile form of electric thruster based on pulsed plasmoids, field-reversed configurations (FRC) produced by a rotating magnetic field (RMF). The effort brings together EHT experience of developing high power solid-state power systems for driving plasma loads with the RMF-FRC thruster and testing capabilities at UM. Together we propose a program to build out a RMF-FRC thruster that can be tested on a thrust stand. This thruster will be evaluated over a range of operating conditions that meet both the low-thrust/high-specific impulse and high-thrust/low-specific impulse of interest to the Air Force.