EXQUADRUM INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S13
EXQUADRUM INC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $156,496. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code S13 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $156,496
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S13
- Solicitation
- SBIR_22_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2022-07-12 → 2023-01-25
Description
During the proposed Phase I research and development effort, the project team will develop a long-term storable, hybrid propulsion system with the highest possible specific impulse for sample return missions from large-body, extraterrestrial destinations including., the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Phobos, and Europa. The proposed solution uses advanced chemistry to achieve mass-efficient sample return that minimizes the ascent vehiclersquo;s gross liftoff mass (GLOM). The proposed project team will develop a plan for a follow-on flight demonstration program. The Phase I program will conclude with a hot-fire demonstration of a prototype propulsion system.