ThermAvant Receives Grants from NASA and the US Army
ThermAvant was recently awarded small business innovation research (SBIR) grants from both NASA and the US Army. Research and development is at the core of what ThermAvant does, and these SBIR grants allow the team to continue innovate solutions to next-generation challenges.
Learn more about each individual award:
ThermAvant received half of all grants awarded to Missouri businesses from NASA’s 2020 SBIR/STTR solicitation. The grants were awarded to do research in space technology and science. Below is information on individual awards.
In the science category, ThermAvant received funding to research a high performance cryogenic two-phase heat spreader, which will help NASA identify improvements to multistage low temperature spaceflight cryocoolers. Learn more about this innovative solution.
In the space technology category, ThermAvant received funding to research kilowatt-class energy conversion for small fission reactors. The winning proposal detailed plans to develop a high temperature heat rejection system for power generation.
ThermAvant also received funding in the science category for thermal control systems. The research proposal, Oscillating Heat Pipe Enhanced Thermal Wadi, aims to identify innovative approaches and techniques for lunar surface payload survival.
ThermAvant was awarded an innovation research grant as part of the US Army’s SBIR Program Phase I. ThermAvant will use the grant to develop compact thermal solutions through additive manufacturing techniques.
ThermAvant was one of 124 small businesses in the United States awarded a grant in NASA’s 2019 SBIR Program Phase II solicitation.
Thermavant will use the grant to focus on the development of leading edge skin for hypersonic aircrafts. ThermAvant previously established the feasibility of its proposed technology through an SBIR Phase I award. The SBIR Phase II award will help ThermAvant develop, demonstrate and deliver our technology to NASA to advance the organization’s priorities, including the Artemis program, whose goal is to land the first woman or next man on the moon by 2024.
Get more information about our new hypersonic undertaking.
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