SPECIAL AEROSPACE SERVICES — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: H2.01
SPECIAL AEROSPACE SERVICES — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $124,894
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- H2.01
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2015-06-17 → 2015-12-17
Description
Special Aerospace Services (SAS) is proposing a new and innovative ascent/descent engine using methane as its propellant. This engine will utilize the concepts of the Oxidizer Rich Staged Combustion (ORSC) cycle of the RD-8 to improve on performance over existing hardware. This SBIR program will leverage existing work SAS has done in conjunction with DARPA to on the RD-8 preburner to design and analyze a new engine with the benefits of the RD-8, but being able to use methane as the propellant. Additive manufacturing will be used to build the components of the engine to reduce cost and limitations in design.