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| Award ID | Recipient | Awarding agency | Amount | Start | End | NAICS | Description |
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| NNX17CS12P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.96K | 2017-06-09 | 2018-06-08 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NOVEL APPROACH TO SCAVENGING HEAT FROM HIGH INTENSITY THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS ENCOUNTERED DURING SPACE MISSIONS AND CONVERTING THIS THERMAL POWER TO ELECTRICAL POWER AT HIGH EFFICIENCY. EXAMPLES INCLUDE EXTREMELY HOT HEAT SHIELDS DURING VEHICLE ENTRY INTO PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES (MARS/VENUS PROBES) AND DURING HIGH SPEED ASCENT THROUGH PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES (SAMPLE RETURN FROM MARS/VENUS), HOT CLADDINGS OF RADIOISOTOPE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS USED FOR POWERING OUTER PLANETARY SPACECRAFT AND MULTI-DECADE PLANETARY BASES (MARS/VENUS/LUNAR), AS WELL AS COMBUSTORS AND NOZZLES OF SPACE AND LAUNCH PROPULSION SYSTEMS. IN THIS STTR WE WILL DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED METAL HYDRIDE SYSTEM AND SPECTRALLY-TUNED THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC POWER CONVERTER SYSTEM THAT CAN EXTRACT HEAT DURING PERIODS OF HIGH THERMAL INTENSITY (TENS OF SECONDS), AND CONVERT IT TO ELECTRICITY AT GREATER THAN 25 PERCENT EFFICIENCY. FOLLOWING THE END OF THIS PERIOD, THE SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE TO GENERATE USEFUL POWER FOR ADDITIONAL TENS OF MINUTES. IN PHASE I, FOR THE POWER CONVERTER SYSTEM, WE WILL DEMONSTRATE FEASIBILITY OF FABRICATING A CRITICAL COMPONENT IN LARGER AREAS (5 CM X 5 CM), AND FOR THE METAL HYDRIDE (MH) SYSTEM, WE WILL EXPERIMENTALLY CHARACTERIZE THE MH DECOMPOSITION/RECOMBINATION REACTIONS THAT ENABLE CONTINUAL ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION FOR A USEFUL DURATION AFTER THE PERIOD OF HIGH THERMAL INTENSITY HAS ENDED. IN PHASE II, WE WILL PRODUCE AN ENGINEERING PROTOTYPE OF THE INTEGRATED HEAT SCAVENGING ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATOR SYSTEM, FULLY TESTED IN LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT AND IN SIMULATED OPERATIONAL THERMAL ENVIRONMENT, TOGETHER WITH AN ANALYTICAL MODEL OF A FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM. |
| NNX17CM44P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.96K | 2017-06-09 | 2017-12-08 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A UNIQUE VENTURI FOR FUTURE MONOPROPELLANT FEED SYSTEMS THAT USES A PASSIVELY CONTROLLED THROAT AREA TO ADJUST PROPELLANT FLOW RATE. THE ADAPTIVE VENTURI ELIMINATES WATER HAMMER IN MONOPROPELLANT THRUSTER MANIFOLDS BY RAPIDLY ADJUSTING FLOW AREA TO PREVENT PRESSURE SURGES. THESE BENEFITS ARE ACHIEVED WITH A ONE-TO-ONE REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING CAVITATING VENTURIS WITHOUT ADDED WEIGHT, VOLUME, OR POWER REQUIREMENTS. FURTHERMORE, THE TOTAL LIFETIME IMPULSE OF THE PROPULSION SYSTEM WILL INCREASE DUE TO INCREASED FLOW AREA DURING NOMINAL FLOW CONDITIONS. IN PHASE I, WE WILL OPTIMIZE THE VENTURI DESIGN AND MEASURE KEY PERFORMANCE METRICS IN FULL-SCALE FLOW TESTS. THE PHASE I WILL CONCLUDE WITH A MINIATURIZED ADAPTIVE VENTURI DESIGN ACCOMPANIED BY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS RESULTS. IN PHASE II, A SET OF GEOMETRIC MODELS WILL BE CREATED TO MEET THE RANGE OF FLOW CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR ATTITUDE AND REACTION CONTROL THRUSTERS, AS WELL AS DIVERT/INSERT THRUSTERS UP TO 100 LBF. UPON SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE SBIR PROGRAM, PROTOFLIGHT COMPONENTS AND VENTURIS FOR GROUND TESTING WILL BE DEVELOPED IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION PROGRAMS.. |
| NNX13CC41P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.96K | 2013-05-23 | 2013-11-23 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF NASA HAS A NEED TO DEVELOP HIGHER ENERGY DENSITY BATTERY SYSTEMS TO MEET THE POWER REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE ENERGY DEVICES. IN THIS PROPOSED PHASE I PROGRAM, PSI WILL DEVELOP AN ADVANCED CATHODE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF LITHIUM ION CELLS WITH LONG LIFE 250 CYCLES AND ENERGY DENSITIES 265WH KG. THE NOVEL CATHODE ELECTRODE WILL REDUCE DETRIMENTAL REACTIONS WITH THE ELECTROLYTE AT HIGH VOLTAGES THAT RESULT IN INEFFICIENT CYCLING AND ENHANCE PERFORMANCE FADE. INITIALLY, PSI WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH BY CONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING STEADY STATE CYCLING OF LAB SIZED SILICON/CATHODE CELLS. THIS TESTING WILL HIGHLIGHT THE ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT CELLS THAT CAN MAINTAIN THEIR PERFORMANCE OVER HUNDREDS OF CYCLES. SCALE-UP OF THE OPTIMIZED PROCESSES WILL THEN BE CARRIED OUT TO SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION OF PROTOTYPE AH SIZED CELLS AND DEMONSTRATE MRL AND TRLS OF 4. PHASE II EFFORTS WOULD FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTION OF LARGER CELLS, DEMONSTRATING THE CYCLING PERFORMANCE, AND THE READINESS OF THE TECHNOLOGY FOR INTEGRATION INTO PROTOTYPE BATTERY PACKS FOR INITIAL FIELD TESTING. |
| 80NSSC18P2156 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.95K | 2018-07-20 | 2019-08-26 | 541715 | ALL ROCKET MISSIONS BENEFIT FROM HAVING LOWER STRUCTURAL MASS AND HIGHER SPECIFIC IMPULSE, BOTH OF WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO LARGER PAYLOAD FRACTIONS AND THEREFORE LOWER MISSION COST. HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS SUCH AS CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES (CMCS) ARE AN AVENUE TO LOWER ENGINE MASS BECAUSE OF THE LOW DENSITY AND HIGH SPECIFIC STRENGTH OF THE MATERIAL. THEY ALSO HAVE A HIGH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AND SO CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH SPECIFIC IMPULSE BY REDUCING THE THERMAL LOAD THAT MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE NOZZLE STRUCTURE, KEEPING THE HEAT IN THE EXHAUST STREAM WHERE IT BELONGS. HOWEVER, EVEN THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF CMCS IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH FOR STOICHIOMETRIC METHANE-OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN-OXYGEN FLAME CONDITIONS. IN THIS PHASE I EFFORT, PSI WILL DEVELOP A REGENERATIVE COOLING ARCHITECTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A COMBINED CMC/METAL STRUCTURE. THE MAJOR DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED SO FAR IN ADDING FUEL COOLING TO CMC NOZZLES IS THAT CMCS ARE TYPICALLY PERMEABLE AND HAVE LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY. PSI WILL ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES USING COLD-SPRAY METALLIZATION AND METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO BUILD METAL COOLING PASSAGES ON A CORRUGATED CMC NOZZLE. IF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS SUCCESSFUL, IT WILL RESULT IN A CMC/METAL STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING COMBUSTION CHAMBER, THROAT, AND NOZZLE CONDITIONS BY USING REGENERATIVE COOLING. THE PHASE I PROGRAM WILL END WITH VALIDATED THERMAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR A FULL REGENERATIVE CMC NOZZLE. THIS TECHNOLOGY IS APPLICABLE TO A RANGE OF NOZZLE SIZES FROM THE 1.2 KLBF MSFC WORKHORSE NOZZLE CONFIGURATION WHICH WOULD BE TARGETED IN A PHASE II PROJECT, THROUGH BOOSTER-SCALE NOZZLES. AT THE END OF THE PHASE I PROJECT, A MANUFACTURING PROTOTYPE OF THE CMC/METAL COOLING STRUCTURE AND DESIGN AND TEST DATA WILL BE PROVIDED TO NASA. |
| 80NSSC21C0114 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.95K | 2021-05-19 | 2022-06-19 | 541715 | QUANTUM-MEMORY WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (QWDM) |
| HQ014714C7854 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.94K | 2013-12-20 | 2014-07-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT TITLE: ADVANCED HIGH PERFORMANCE MONO-PROPELLANT AND BI-PROPELLANT LIQUIDS FOR INSENSITIVE MUNITION COMPLAINT INTERCEPTOR SYSTEMS. |
| NNX14CS51P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.93K | 2014-06-20 | 2014-12-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF SILICON CARBIDE BASED CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES (CMCS) OFFER THE POTENTIAL TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEMS TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE PERFORMANCE AND FUEL EFFICIENCY OVER CURRENT METAL-BASED DESIGNS. PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) AND OUR TEAM MEMBERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA (UCSB) WILL DEVELOP, DESIGN AND FABRICATE ENHANCED SIC-BASED MATRICES CAPABLE OF LONG TERM OPERATION AT 2750 F TO 3000 F IN THE COMBUSTION ENVIRONMENT. OUR APPROACH WILL BUILD UPON PSI'S AND UCSB'S PREVIOUSLY SUCCESSFUL WORK IN INCORPORATING REFRACTORY AND RARE EARTH SPECIES INTO THE SIC MATRIX TO INCREASE THE CMC USE TEMPERATURES A D LIFE-TIME CAPABILITIES BY IMPROVING THE PROTECTIVE OXIDE PASSIVATION LAYER THAT FORMS DURING USE. AS PART OF THIS WORK WE WILL CREATE PHYSICS BASED-MATERIALS AND PROCESS MODELS THAT QUALITATIVELY DEFINE METHODS OF IMPROVING MATRIX PROPERTIES AND THE INTERACTION OF THE FIBERS, INTERPHASES AND MATRIX WITH EACH OTHER. IN THE PHASE I PROGRAM THE PSI TEAM WILL FOCUS ON PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS AND DEVELOP MODELS PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF PHASE DISTRIBUTION, GRAIN SIZE, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, MATRIX DENSITY, AND SURFACE FLAWS ON THE OXIDATION BEHAVIOR OF THE CMC MATRIX. DURING THE PHASE II PROGRAM WE WILL ITERATIVELY IMPROVE THE CMC PERFORMANCE BY OPTIMIZING THE COMPOSITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ADDITIVES BASED ON OXIDATION AND MECHANICAL TEST RESULTS. |
| NNX17CC69P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.93K | 2017-06-09 | 2017-12-08 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP NEW SOLAR CELLS BASED ON A FERROELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR ABSORBER MATERIAL THAT CAN YIELD A 30% INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY AND A 20% INCREASE IN SPECIFIC POWER COMPARED WITH CURRENT TRIPLE-JUNCTION III-V CELLS. THESE GAINS WILL BE REALIZED BY EXPLOITING A UNIQUE CHARGE SEPARATION MECHANISM IN FERROELECTRICS THAT ENABLES OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES MANY TIMES THE BAND GAP, LEADING TO MAXIMUM POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES EXCEEDING THE CONVENTIONAL SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMIT (33%). PSI AND TEAM MEMBERS WILL CREATE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS BASED ON EARTH-ABUNDANT SNS STABILIZED IN A FERROELECTRIC STATE BY EPITAXIAL STRAIN ENGINEERING. BY COMBINING ABOVE-GAP CELL VOLTAGES WITH THE HIGH ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT (<1 X 105 CM-1 AT 500 NM), LOW DENSITY (5.22 G/CM3), AND IDEAL BAND GAP (1.1 EV) OF SNS, A MASS-SPECIFIC POWER DENSITY OF 120 KW/KG (MASS OF ABSORBER MATERIAL, 1 UM ABSORBER THICKNESS) IS PROJECTED. IN ADDITION, A MAXIMUM CELL EFFICIENCY OF>45% IS ANTICIPATED TO BE ACHIEVABLE. IMPORTANTLY, THESE CELLS WILL ALSO OFFER IMPROVED RADIATION RESISTANCE DUE TO THE REDUCED CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTHS REQUIRED BY THE UNIQUE FERROELECTRIC CHARGE SEPARATION MECHANISM. DURING PHASE I, PSI, GUIDED BY FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE PARADIM CENTER AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, WILL DEMONSTRATE ROOM-TEMPERATURE FERROELECTRIC ORDERING IN SNS THROUGH EPITAXIAL STRAIN ENGINEERING. DURING PHASE II, PSI AND LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE POTENTIAL OF THE PROPOSED ABSORBER BY ACHIEVING ABOVE-BAND GAP OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES IN PROTOTYPE CELLS. DURING A PHASE III EFFORT, THE EFFICIENCY OF THESE CELLS WILL BE INCREASED TO A TARGET VALUE OF 45% THROUGH REDUCTION OF INTRINSIC DEFECTS, LEADING TO SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN CELL SIZE, WEIGHT, AND POWER OUTPUT. |
| N0017817C1338 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.93K | 2017-09-21 | 2018-03-21 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF STATUS REPORT |
| NNX17CM45P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.92K | 2017-06-09 | 2017-12-08 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) PROPOSES TO DESIGN, DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE AN INNOVATIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE, GREEN, STORABLE HYBRID PROPELLANT SYSTEM IN A HIGH MASS FRACTION LAUNCH VEHICLE FOR SMALL SATELLITES. THE HYBRID SYSTEM UTILIZES AN INNOVATIVE COMPOSITE SOLID FUEL TECHNOLOGY THAT SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCES FUEL REGRESSION RATE AND IGNITIBILITY RELATIVE TO STATE OF- THE-ART HYBRIDS, WITHOUT RELYING ON A MULTI-PORT FUEL GRAIN GEOMETRY, COMPLEX PORT FLOW BEHAVIOR, OR THE USE OF METALLIC ADDITIVES. THE HIGH ENERGY, HIGH DENSITY LIQUID OXIDIZER IMPROVES HYBRID MOTOR COMBUSTION CAPABILITIES AND REDUCES LOGISTICAL OPERATIONAL COST COMPARED TO CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART CRYOGENIC OXIDIZERS. THIS NEW SYSTEM OFFERS ALL ADVANTAGES ASSOCIATED WITH HYBRID PROPULSION, INCLUDING INHERENT SAFETY AND SIMPLICITY IN DESIGN. IN PHASE I, THE HYBRID SYSTEM EFFICACY WILL BE QUANTIFIED THROUGH SUBSCALE MOTOR DEMONSTRATIONS. THE RESULTS GENERATED WILL BE UTILIZED TO CONDUCT A REALISTIC SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN OF THE PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR FULL-SCALE DEMONSTRATION IN PHASE II. |
| HQ014714C7855 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.92K | 2013-12-20 | 2014-07-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT: TITLE- AFFORDABLE, LIGHT WEIGHT SOLID AND GREEN PROPELLANT DACS COMPONENTS FOR 4300 DEG F OPERATION |
| HQ014714C7853 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.92K | 2013-12-20 | 2014-07-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT TITLED: ADVANCED COATINGS FOR INSENSITIVE MUNITION COMPLIANT SOLID PROPELLANTS |
| N6833518C0489 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.92K | 2018-05-24 | 2018-11-23 | 541715 | SBIR PHASE I IGF::OT::IGF |
| NNX15CK08P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.91K | 2015-06-17 | 2015-12-17 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI), IN COLLABORATION WITH VENCORE SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS, INC. (VENCORE) AND UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY (USU), PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A SOLAR PLANT GROWTH SYSTEM FOR FOOD PRODUCTION IN SPACE EXPLORATION MISSIONS. IN THE PROPOSED SYSTEM SOLAR LIGHT IS COLLECTED BY THE REFLECTOR OPTICS AND ONLY THE PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION SPECTRA (PAR: 400 NM<?<700 NM) ARE TRANSMITTED TO THE PLANT GROWTH CHAMBER. THE PAR SPECTRA TRANSMITTED TO THE PLANT GROWTH CHAMBER ARE DISTRIBUTED OVER THE PLANT GROWTH AREA AT OPTIMUM INTENSITIES FOR PLANT GROWTH. THE NON-PLANT GROWING SPECTRA (NON-PAR) ARE NOT REFLECTED BY THE DICHROIC PAR REFLECTOR AND TRANSMITTED TO ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES SUCH AS LOW-BANDGAP PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) CELLS FOR ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION. THE ELECTRIC POWER GENERATED CAN BE USED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL LIGHTING AND/OR FACILITY OPERATION. IN THE PROPOSED PROGRAM WE WILL DEVELOP A GROUND-BASED PROTOTYPE PLANT GROWTH SYSTEM BY INTEGRATING (I) THE SOLAR PLANT LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED BY PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) WITH (II) STATE OF THE ART PLANT GROWTH TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOOD PRODUCTION IN SPACE. IN PHASE I, A LABORATORY PROTOTYPE PLANT GROWTH SYSTEM CONSISTING OF: SOLAR CONCENTRATOR; OPTICAL FIBER CABLE; LIGHTING PANEL; PLANT GROWTH CHAMBER; AND PLANT WATERING MODULE WILL BE DEVELOPED, AND FUNCTIONALITY TESTS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WILL BE CONDUCTED. BASED ON THE RESULTS OF PHASE I AN ENGINEERING PROTOTYPE SOLAR PLANT GROWTH SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED AND TESTED IN A GROUND BASED FACILITY. |
| HQ014714C7857 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.91K | 2013-12-20 | 2014-07-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT TITLE: INNOVATIVE METRIC BASED RADAR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR RAID SCENARIOS |
| HQ086021C7060 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.89K | 2021-04-28 | 2021-12-22 | 541715 | SBIR/STTR PHASE I RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT- "NEA VACUUM MICROELECTRONICS" |
| NNX14CL23P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.88K | 2014-06-20 | 2015-01-19 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC (PSI) PROPOSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LONGWAVE INFRARED (LWIR) IMAGING SPATIAL HETERODYNE SPECTROMETER (I-SHS) FOR STANDOFF DETECTION OF CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE (CAT) AND WAKE VORTICES FROM AN AIRBORNE LATFORM. PSI WILL TEAM WITH GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE (GTRI) WHO HAS PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH ON THE APPLICATION OF LWIR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING FOR DETECTION OF THESE AND OTHER AIR HAZARDS. THE RESEARCH HAS PRODUCED EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS, HOWEVER, THE PREDICTED SPECTRAL RADIANCE SIGNATURES ARE AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE BELOW THE NOISE FLOOR OF STATE OF THE ART IN LWIR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS. THE PROPOSED LWIR I-SHS WILL OFFER THIS ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IMPROVEMENT IN NOISE EQUIVALENT SPECTRAL RADIANCE THROUGH A COMBINATION OF HIGH THROUGHPUT AND MINIMAL NOISEINDUCING SAMPLING ERRORS OWING TO THE STATIONARY INTERFEROMETER. A PRELIMINARY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS PREDICTS A PER-PIXEL NESR OF 1E-9 W/(CM^2 STER CM^-1) AT 16 CM^-1 SPECTRAL RESOLUTION. IN PHASE I, PSI WILL FORMALIZE A SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MODEL AND WILL PRODUCE AND CHARACTERIZE A BREADBOARD I-SHS WHICH WILL BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE A MOLECULAR IMAGING MEASUREMENT AS A SURROGATE FOR A WAKE VORTEX. WITH THE SUPPORT OF GTRI, PSI WILL GENERATE REQUIREMENTS AND A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR A TRL 5 SYSTEM TO BE DEVELOPED IN PHASE II. |
| 80NSSC20C0572 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.87K | 2020-08-31 | 2021-03-01 | 541715 | DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS FOR UPSAMPLING OF SURFACE IMAGES |
| NNX15CG50P | Q-PEAK, INCORPORATED | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.87K | 2015-06-17 | 2016-06-17 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF IN RESPONSE TO NASA'S SOLICITATION FOR LIGHT-WEIGHT AND POWER EFFICIENT INSTRUMENTS THAT ENABLE IN SITU COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS, Q-PEAK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A COMPACT, ROBUST, AND EFFICIENT INSTRUMENT TO COMBINE ALL LASER BASED SPECTROSCOPIES CAPABLE OF PERFORMING IMAGING, RAMAN, LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN, LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE AND LIDAR THE MAIN ADVANTAGE IN USING THIS SUITE OF INSTRUMENTS IS THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM IMAGING TO ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF ROCK SAMPLES BY SIMPLY DIRECTING A LASER BEAM ON REMOTE TARGETS OF INTEREST. BASED ON THE SUCCESS OF THE CURRENT MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY ROVER INSTRUMENT CHEMCAM, THE FIRST EVER LASER-BASED SPECTROGRAPHIC SYSTEM TO BE SELECTED AS AN INSTRUMENT ON A NASA SPACECRAFT, THE HAWAII INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS AND PLANETOLOGY (HIGP) HAS DEVELOPED AND TESTED A PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT. THIS NEW INSTRUMENT IS CAPABLE OF AT LEAST 10,000 TIMES GREATER SENSITIVITY THAN THE CHEMCAM INSTRUMENT, ALLOWING FASTER MEASUREMENTS UP TO 8 M AWAY WITH A FOCUSED LASER BEAM. THIS INTEGRATED, COMPACT REMOTE INSTRUMENT IS CALLED THE COMPACT INTEGRATED INSTRUMENT FOR REMOTE SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS (CIIRSA). REPLACING THE EXISTING LASER WITH THE Q-PEAK PROPOSED LASER WILL REDUCE CIIRSA'S WEIGHT BY 30 % AND VOLUME BY 20 %. IN PHASE I, Q-PEAK WILL DESIGN, DEVELOP AND BUILD A LASER THAT WILL PRODUCE 1-2 MJ OF ENERGY IN<2 NS PULSE DURATION AT 1047 NM AND OUR PARTNER HIGP WILL CHARACTERIZE THE CIIRSA INSTRUMENT AT THE ANTICIPATED ENERGY AND WAVELENGTH OF THE FULL SYSTEM (5 MJ AT 523 NM) TO UNDERSTAND THE RANGING AND PERFORMANCE OF THE FINAL SYSTEM. IN PHASE II, Q-PEAK IS PROPOSING AN ULTRA-COMPACT LASER WITH 10 CM3 IN VOLUME THAT WILL PRODUCE>5 MJ,<2 NS DURATION PULSES AT 523 NM AT REPETITION RATES FROM SINGLE-SHOT TO 100 HZ. THE ENTIRE LASER SYSTEM WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO A SUITE OF INSTRUMENTS THAT OUR PARTNER AT HIGP HAS DEVELOPED TO REDUCE THE OVERALL SWAP OF THE CIIRSA SYSTEM. |
| N6833517C0359 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.84K | 2017-06-01 | 2017-12-01 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ONR SBIR PHASE I |
| N6833517C0626 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.6K | 2017-09-25 | 2018-03-25 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF |
| 80NSSC19C0294 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.54K | 2019-08-19 | 2020-02-18 | 541715 | SOLAR CONCENTRATOR SYSTEM FOR LUNAR ISRU APPLICATIONS |
| HQ014715C7156 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $124.17K | 2014-12-22 | 2015-07-21 | 541712 | SBIR PHASE I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT LASER BASED SECURE COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION. IGF::OT::IGF |
| 80NSSC21C0112 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $124.03K | 2021-05-19 | 2021-11-19 | 541715 | FAIL-SAFE COLD CATHODE IONIZER |
| NNX16CC42P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $123.94K | 2016-06-10 | 2016-12-09 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF AS MINIATURIZED SATELLITE PLATFORMS SUCH AS CUBESAT INCREASE IN CAPABILITY, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY BE DEPLOYED TO OTHER PLANETARY BODIES (E.G., JPL INSPIRE). AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS TECHNOLOGY IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THE LOW-COST (<$30M/MISSION) IN-SITU QUANTIFICATION OF OFF-WORLD RESOURCES. INDEED, THE RECENT NEO TRAJECTORY OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ASKED, WHAT IS THE ELEMENTAL AND MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION AND WATER CONTENT OF PRIMITIVE BODIES? WHILE THE RECENT NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PLANETARY SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY INDICATED THAT LASER SPECTROSCOPY IS A KEY TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL PROVIDE ANSWERS VIA IN SITU MEASUREMENT OF OFF-WORLD TRACE-GAS SPECIES IN VARIOUS SPACE-FLIGHT MISSIONS. TOWARDS THAT END, PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN ULTRA-LOW SIZE, WEIGHT, AND POWER (SWAP) IN-SITU INTEGRATED OPTICAL SENSOR FOR THE SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT OF TRACE GASES, INITIALLY WATER VAPOR. THE NOVEL SENSOR ARCHITECTURE, BASED ON OPEN-PATH TUNABLE DIODE LASER SPECTROSCOPY (TDLAS), WILL SERVE AS A PLATFORM FOR A FAMILY OF SENSORS, EACH ABLE TO DETECT ONE OF THE GASEOUS SPECIES OF INTEREST TO NASA. THE PROPOSED PROJECT FOCUSES ON USING NOVEL MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING DESIGN CONCEPTS TO CREATE A SENSOR MEASUREMENT HEAD THAT DETECTS<10 NG/CM3 WATER VAPOR IN A 1CM OPTICAL PATH AS PART OF A 10G, 1CM3 PACKAGE. WHEN COMBINED WITH PSI'S INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS, THE COMPLETE SENSOR SWAP IS EXPECTED TO BE ON THE ORDER OF 500 G, 100 CM3 , AND<600 MW, NOMINALLY 10-100X BETTER THAN THE CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART. PSI'S PHASE I PROGRAM OBJECTIVE IS A LABORATORY BENCH-TOP DEMONSTRATION PROVING THE FEASIBILITY OF THE COMPACT PACKAGING DESIGN IN MEETING BOTH THE SPECTROSCOPIC GOALS AND THE SWAP NEEDS FOR FUTURE INTER-PLANETARY CUBESAT MISSIONS. THIS WILL ENTAIL THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AN INTEGRATED OPTICAL WATER VAPOR SENSOR AND THE EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS WITH CHEMICAL RESOLUTION RELEVANT TO IN SITU RESOURCE QUANTIFICATION. |