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: 2015-07-15 to 2023-03-31
Current total value of award: $14899465
Description: THE PURPOSE OF SAFFIRE IS TO CLOSE SPACECRAFT FIRE SAFETY KNOWLEDGE AND ENGINEERING GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH MATERIAL FLAMMABILITY, FIRE DETECTION, FIRE SUPPRESSION, AND POST-FIRE CLEAN-UP FOR NASA EXPLORATION VEHICLES. SAFFIRE-I, II, AND III WERE DEVELOPED TO INVESTIGATE LARGE-SCALE FLAME SPREAD AND MATERIAL FLAMMABILITY LIMITS IN LONG DURATION LOW-GRAVITY. SAFFIRE-IV, V, AND VI WILL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THESE PHENOMENA AS WELL AS ADDRESS ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES SUCH AS FLAME GROWTH/DYNAMICS, FIRE DETECTION, FIRE SUPPRESSION, POST-FIRE CLEANUP, POST-FIRE MONITORING AND FIRE BEHAVIOR MODELING.