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ABSTRACT:This project will develop fuel injection technology that is inherently insensitive to variation in liquid physical properties. Generally physical properties can impact the injector discharge coefficient which in turn impacts liquid velocity and mass flow for a given injector pressure drop. Under certain circumstances, the discharge coefficient can be made to be insensitive to these proper ...

ABSTRACT:SIL will develop Li-Ion Intelli-Pack battery to meet USAF SMC FTS and Upper Stage requirements. The Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack battery technology energy density is in 200Wh/Kg and also can discharge high continuous (5-20C) and pulse current (10-50C) load without cell damage to meet the USAF battery requirements. The battery weight and volume will be significantly reduce by 1/3 compared t ...

ABSTRACT:To address the Air Force need for a noncontact full-field real-time strain measurement system, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Fast Full-Field Strain Measurement (3F-SM) system. This proposed system is based on a shearography technique with an instant phase shifting procedure and exploits a tunable shear interferometer which matches system sensitivity to the ex ...

ABSTRACT:In response to the Turbine Research Facility (AFRL) need for a compact, rapid, wide bandwidth, rotating data acquisition system, scalable to high-channel count, SARA, Inc. is proposing to develop an innovative system architecture making use of COTS 24 bit digitizers. We have successfully completed the Phase 1 (feasibility and brassboard) and are presently under contract in Phase 2 (protot ...

ABSTRACT:WASK Engineering will perform trade studies to select design parameters to develop a conceptual design of a modular engine. The purpose of the conceptual design is to provide the requirements for detailed hardware designs of thrust cells and nozzle that will be completed in this effort. The designs will be used for hardware fabrication in a Phase 2 effort. An evaluation will be made of de ...

ABSTRACT:AOSense proposes to develop a model that calculates the response of a cold-atom IMU subjected to harsh environmental effects including radiation, magnetic fields, and acceleration/rotation. These simulations will predict navigational accuracy of cold-atom sensors in real environments, informing the development of future generations of strategic-grade cold-atom IMUs. The resulting software ...

ABSTRACT:In an effort to reduce the costs of future GPS satellite constellations, dual-launch configurations are being explored that can put two GPS satellites into orbit from one launch vehicle. To enable this configuration, thin and deployable solar arrays must supplant standard rigid solar panels that occupy too much volume within the fairing while stowed. For this proposed effort, Vanguard Spa ...

ABSTRACT:Gener8 and Southern Methodist University team together to propose a novel new architecture for a low-phase noise, single-frequency electronically tunable laser array at 852 nm that meets all the demanding requirements for low SWaP+C requirements in the solicitation. A rugged packaging solution is proposed to package the laser head in a volume of 3.0 cubic cm.BENEFIT:The proposed laser sys ...

ABSTRACT:As space continues to become more congested and contested, our ability to identify and mitigate man-made and natural threats to space assets becomes increasingly difficult. The detectable population of resident space objects (RSOs) is not comprehensively quantified. Detection, tracking, and classification of objects such as cubesats, nanosatellites, and space debris that threaten military ...

ABSTRACT:Space Micro proposes a flexible approach to simulating celestial objects with sufficient fidelity to allow hardware-in-the-loop testing with flight software. Key innovations include star scene creation from star camera perspective, multiple LCOS projectors at high resolution and combinations of dynamics and calibration routines to cover the range of testing needs.BENEFIT:High fidelity sce ...