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SCI-HI - A Programmable Multi-Input High Speed Asynchronous Encoder/Decoder

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Air Force 		Award ID:
32643 		Program Year/Program:
1997 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
32643 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
SYSTRAN FEDERAL CORP.
4027 Colonel Glenn Highway Suite 210 Dayton, OH 45431-1672
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 1997
Title: SCI-HI - A Programmable Multi-Input High Speed Asynchronous Encoder/Decoder
Agency / Branch: DOD / USAF
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $589,030.00
 

Abstract:

The increasing complexity and size of spacecraft has aggravated the problem of packaging a spacecraft for launch and subsequently deploying the spacecraft in its operational configuration. The motors and spring-driven deployment mechanisms and their associated release /latch devices are single-point failure sources, with significant failure potentials due to launch loads, thermal cycling, and the space environment. Several technologies such as shape memory alloys and electrostrictive/magnetostrictive materials, are beginning to emerge as possible replacements for these deployment mechanisms. Saddleback Aerospace has devised several deployment schemes based on a new candidate material: a shape memory ploymer. The polymer should offer low cost, lower weight, easier attachment and greater design versatility than existing or emerging technologies. In the proposed Phase I program, candidate roles for shape memory polymer actuators will be evaluated, and two prototype actuates will be fabricated.| Benefits: The development of shape memory polymer space actuator mechanism will benefit the design of all classes of satellites and spacecraft, particularly the newer class of LEO and MEO communications satellites.

Principal Investigator:

Stephen T. Thompson
5132525601

Business Contact:

Small Business Information at Submission:

Systran Corp.
4126 Linden Avenue Dayton, OH 45432

EIN/Tax ID:
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No