Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: ZIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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: 2017-10-01 to 2023-03-21
Current total value of award: $657250
Description: ADVANCED COMBUSTION VIA MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENT (ACME) IS A CHAMBER INSERT ASSEMBLY (CIA) DESIGNED TO OPERATE AS A SUB-RACK PAYLOAD IN THE NASA INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) COMBUSTION INTEGRATED RACK (CIR) FROM SEPTEMBER 2017 (ISS INCREMENT 53) THROUGH JULY 2020 (ISS INCREMENT 64). THE INSERT WILL FUNCTION AS AN EXPERIMENT PLATFORM FOR 5 GASEOUS FLOW COMBUSTION EXPERIMENTS (CLD FLAME, E-FIELD FLAMES, BRE, S-FLAME, AND FLAME DESIGN)..THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK EFFORT IS TO SUPPORTCONSOLE OPERATIONS FOR THE FIVE (5) ACME INVESTIGATIONS. SPECIFICALLY, THIS EFFORT WILL PROVIDE AN ACME PAYLOAD DEVELOPER (PD) CONSOLE OPERATOR TO OPERATE THE INSERT DURING TEST POINT OPERATIONS. THE EFFORT WILL INVOLVE PERIODIC MEETINGS WITH THE ACME SCIENCE TEAM IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND NEAR TERM SCIENCE OBJECTIVES AND TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR OPTIMIZING THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION TO MEET THOSE OBJECTIVES..THIS STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) ALSO INCLUDES THE DELIVERY OF FLIGHT HARDWARE THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS CRITICAL FLIGHT SPARES FOR SCIENCE. THE EFFORT INCLUDES BUILDING TWO (2) 14-MICRON THIN FIBER PYROMETRY ARRAYS AND TWO SETS OF TEN (10) IGNITER TIP ASSEMBLIES, TWO (2) IGNITER TIP HOLDERS, AND THREE (3) FLIGHT SPHERICAL BURNERS.