Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: BLUEHALO LABS, LLC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2017-08-18 to 2022-06-27
Current total value of award: $1100476
Description: EI14042 ATA HAS DEVELOPED A PROTOTYPE VERSION OF THE COMPACT, LIGHTWEIGHT ISOLATION PLATFORM (CLIP), DELIVERED AS PART OF THE CLIP PHASE II AND PHASE II-X PROGRAMS. THE DEVICE PROVIDES 2-AXIS (TIP & TILT) STABILIZATION OF AN OPTICAL BENCH FOR A LARGE APERTURE LASER COMMUNICATIONS PAYLOAD. THE CLIP WAS DESIGNED, BUILT, AND TESTED AS PART OF THE PHASE II CONTRACT. A PHASE II-X ENHANCEMENT WAS INITIATED IN JUN 2015 IN WHICH ATA UPGRADED THE INERTIAL SENSORS AND RE-TESTED THE CLIP WITH A MASS SIMULATOR REPRESENTING ONE VERSION OF THE IROC TELESCOPE. ATA ALSO PROVIDED MODELING SUPPORT AND ANALYSIS AS PART OF THE PHASE II-X CONTRACT. THE CLIP IS A PROTOTYPE TECHNOLOGY, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY INTENDED TO PROVIDE ANGULAR VIBRATION ISOLATION TO THE NASA INTEGRATED RADIO AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (IROC) PROGRAM.