EXQUADRUM INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SB152-008
EXQUADRUM INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,906
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SB152-008
- Solicitation
- 2015.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2015-09-15 → 2016-10-12
Description
Extremely low-cost, lightweight, and high performance expendable upper stages are critical to meeting DARPAs goals for low-cost launch.Engines are the most expensive element of the upper stage, and the turbopump is the most expensive component of the engine.The proposed research will develop and demonstrate a design and manufacturing approach that reduces cost more than an order-of-magnitude while retaining state-of-the-art high performance and lowering weight by exploiting modern physics-based design and analysis tools and low-cost manufacturing technologies.