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NOTE: The Solicitations and topics listed on this site are copies from the various SBIR agency solicitations and are not necessarily the latest and most up-to-date. For this reason, you should visit the respective agency SBIR sites to read the official version of the solicitations and download the appropriate forms and rules.
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Focus Area 1: In-Space Propulsion Technologies
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024NASA isinterested in technologies for advanced in-space propulsion systems to reducetravel time, increase payload mass, reduce acquisition costs, reduce operationalcosts, and enable new science capabilities for exploration and sciencespacecraft. The future will require demanding propulsive performance andflexibility for more ambitious missions requiring high-duty cycles, morechallenging environmen ...
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Focus Area 2: Power, Energy and Storage
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024Power is a ubiquitous technology need across many NASA missions, and newtechnologies are sought to improve and/or enable the generation, storage, anddistribution of electrical power for both human and robotic missions. In spacepower, mission applications include planetary surface power, large-scalespacecraft prime power, and small-scale robotic probe power. Applicabletechnology development is soug ...
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Focus Area 3: Autonomous Systems for Space Exploration
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024The exploration ofspace requires advanced technologies that will better enable both humans androbotic spacecraft to maintain a sustained lunar presence, support Marsexploration, operate in deep space, and explore other destinations in our solarsystem. Examples of such missions include robotic platforms like the EuropaLander or crewed missions with extended periods of dormancy such as Gateway.Gatew ...
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Focus Area 4: Robotic Systems for Space Exploration
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024This focusarea includes the development of robotic systems and technologies (hardware andsoftware) that will enable and enhance future space exploration, science, andservice missions. In thecoming decades, robotic systems will continue to change the way space isexplored. Robots will beused in all mission phases: as independent explorers operating in environments too distant orhostile for humans, ...
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Focus Area 8: In-Situ Resource Utilization
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024In-Situ ResourceUtilization (ISRU) involves any hardware or operation that harnesses andutilizes ‘in-situ’ resources (natural and discarded) to create products andservices for robotic and human exploration. Local resources include ‘natural’resources found on extraterrestrial bodies such as water, solar wind-implantedvolatiles (hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, etc.), vast quantities of m ...
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Focus Area 9: Sensors, Detectors, and Instruments
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024NASA's ScienceMission Directorate (SMD), https://science.nasa.gov/ encompasses research in the areas ofAstrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Science. The NationalAcademies of Science has provided NASA with recently updated Decadal surveysthat are useful to identify technologies that are of interest to the abovescience divisions. Those documents are available at https://www.natio ...
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Focus Area 12: Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024The SBIR focusarea of Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) includes the suite of technologies foratmospheric entry as well as descent and landing on both atmospheric andnon-atmospheric bodies. EDL mission segments are used in both robotic planetaryscience missions and human exploration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit, and manytechnologies have an application to emerging commercial space capabilities ...
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Focus Area 15: Materials Research, Advanced Manufacturing, Structures, and Assembly
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024As NASA embarkson its mission for human exploration of the Moon as a step towards the humanmission to Mars, taking full advantage of the potential offered by new andexisting technologies will be critical to enabling sustainable Lunar and Marspresence. Manufacturing and construction approaches tailored to the Lunarenvironment will pave the way toward addressing challenges such as lowering thecost o ...
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Focus Area 16: Ground & Launch Processing
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024Ground processingtechnology development prepares the agency to test, process, launch, and recoverthe next generation of rockets and spacecraft in support of NASA's explorationobjectives by developing the necessary ground systems, infrastructure, andoperational approaches for terrestrial and off-planet surface systems.This topicseeks innovative concepts and solutions for both addressing long-term g ...
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Focus Area 18: Air Vehicle Technology
Release Date: 04-18-2023Open Date: 04-18-2023Due Date: 03-11-2024Close Date: 03-11-2024This focus area includes tools and technologies thatcontribute to both the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) and theTransformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) encompassing technologies inall six Strategic Thrusts within the NASA Aeronautics Mission Directorate(ARMD). AAVP develops the tools, technologies, and concepts that enable newgenerations of civil aircraft that are safer, more ene ...
STTRPhase INational Aeronautics and Space Administration