{"id":17214,"date":"2024-04-22T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-frontier-aerospace-and-hybird-get-in-on-innovation-research-grants-from-nasa\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:14:14","slug":"new-frontier-aerospace-and-hybird-get-in-on-innovation-research-grants-from-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-frontier-aerospace-and-hybird-get-in-on-innovation-research-grants-from-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Frontier Aerospace and HyBird get in on innovation research grants from NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artwork shows two views of the Bifr\u00f6st orbital transfer spacecraft. (New Frontier Aerospace Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two Washington state aerospace companies \u2014 Tukwila-based New Frontier Aerospace and Spanaway-based HyBird Space Systems \u2014 are among 95 ventures that have won project development funding from NASA through its Small Business Innovation Research program.<\/p>\n

The Phase II SBIR grants are valued at up to $850,000 each. These grants follow up on earlier Phase I funding for the projects, and will be distributed over a 24-month contract period.<\/p>\n

Each small business was also eligible to apply for up to $50,000 in funding from NASA\u2019s Technical and Business Assistance program to help the companies identify new market opportunities and work on their commercialization strategies.<\/p>\n

The total outlay for 107 projects comes to $93.5 million, NASA said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to support this diverse set of companies as they work diligently to bring their technologies to market,\u201d Jenn Gustetic, director of Early Stage Innovation and Partnerships at NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate, said today in a news release. \u201cInclusive innovation is integral to mission success at NASA, and we\u2019re excited to see that 29% of the awardees are from underrepresented groups, including 11% women-owned businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s SBIR grants focus on technologies that could advance the agency\u2019s initiatives in space and aeronautics. New Frontier, for example, is working on a variety of rocket-powered aircraft and spacecraft. The newly announced Phase II grant will support the development of Bifr\u00f6st, an orbital transfer spacecraft designed to be powered by the company\u2019s 3D-printed Mj\u00f6lnir rocket engine.<\/p>\n

New Frontier says Bifr\u00f6st would be capable of transferring a 400-pound payload from low Earth orbit to geostationary Earth orbit, or sending 110 pounds of payload on a course to Mars or Venus. The technology could also be adapted for use in a lunar lander. For what it\u2019s worth, Bifr\u00f6st takes its name from the Rainbow Bridge of Norse mythology, and Mj\u00f6lnir\u2019s name is a nod to Thor\u2019s hammer.<\/p>\n

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An artist\u2019s conception shows the RT-5X deorbit retro-thruster. (HyBird Space Systems Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HyBird is developing a retrobraking propulsion system known as the RT-5X that could be used to bring inactive spacecraft down from low Earth orbit. The system would take advantage of \u201cgreen\u201d propellants.<\/p>\n

NASA also awarded Phase II SBIR grants to two ventures headquartered in Oregon: The Innovation Laboratory, a Portland-based company that\u2019s working on an AI-based system for advanced air traffic management; and Wilsonville-based IRPI, which is developing tools for handling and analyzing scientific samples in low-gravity environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artwork shows two views of the Bifr\u00f6st orbital transfer spacecraft. (New Frontier Aerospace Illustration) Two Washington state aerospace companies \u2014 Tukwila-based New Frontier Aerospace and Spanaway-based HyBird Space Systems \u2014 are among 95 ventures that have won project development funding from NASA through its Small Business Innovation Research program. The Phase II SBIR grants are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4507,4508,190,4436,4355,4509],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hybird-space-systems","tag-irpi","tag-nasa","tag-new-frontier-aerospace","tag-sbir","tag-the-innovation-laboratory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}