Innovative Propulsion] Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Innovative Propulsion]
# 2215 bymonart@... on Nov. 15, 2001, 8:22 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
>From Dennis May:
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:37:15 -0600
From: Dennis May
Reply-To: Starship_Forum@yahoogroups.com
To: Starship_Forum@yahoogroups.com
I remember reading some year and a half ago that
NASA was funding SBIR [Small Business Innovative
Research] Grants for innovative space propulsion
systems. I haven't heard any follow-up on how
things are going or what systems received awards.
Has anyone heard anything?
Some which might be getting such money include:
The pulsed laser driven spinning mirrored top which
rides atop the beam on plasma "pops".
The small probe which will use solar plasma
pressure interacting with its own artificially
created plasma halo.
I used to evaluate SBIR proposals for the Air
Force but not in this area. The NASA search
for proposals seemed pretty far outside the
original SBIR intent, since innovative propulsion
systems for $50,000 seems like asking a
Lamborghini dealer to take $5 down and $5 a
month.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/ is one of the
sites discussing this topic.
Dennis May