Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
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: 2014-04-01 to 2017-01-31
Current total value of award: $3728434
Description: IGF  OT  IGF THIS DELIVERY ORDER WILL COVER THE FINAL ASSEMBLY, VERIFICATION, SHIPMENT, AND ON-ORBIT OPERATIONS FOR THE ZERO-BOIL-OFF TANK PROJECT (ZBOT).  THE ZBOT EXPERIMENT WILL BE OPERATED ONBOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) IN THE MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE GLOVEBOX.  IT IS A SMALL-SCALE SIMULANT-FLUID EXPERIMENT THAT WILL BE USED TO OBTAIN VALUABLE MICROGRAVITY EMPIRICAL DATA FOR CRYROGENIC STORAGE TANK PRESSURE CONTROL DESIGN AND ARCHIVAL SCIENCE DATA FOR MODEL VALIDATION.  IT WILL BE USED TO BUILD A SCIENCE BASE FOR FUTURE SPACE STORAGE TANK ENGINEERING EFFORTS BY ELUCIDATING THE ROLES OF THE VARIOUS INTERACTING TRANSPORT AND PHASE CHANGE PHENOMENA THAT IMPACT TANK PRESSURIZATION AND PRESSURE CONTROL IN VARIABLE GRAVITY.