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NASA's SBIR/STTR Programs

There are a number of ways for SBIR/STTR awardees to engage with the Flight Opportunities program and leverage flight tests to advance their technologies. 

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Space Foundry CEO and co-founder Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman (left) and CTO and co-founder Dr. Dennis Nordlund operate the company’s plasma jet printing of electronics experiment in microgravity on a parabolic flight in December 2021.
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NASA’s Flight Opportunities program can act as an “external investor” for SBIR/STTR Post Phase II activities that can benefit from flight testing through a commercial provider.

There may be other avenues for the program to support SBIR/STTR technologies through the range of award phases, and researchers are encouraged to creatively consider various cost-sharing pathways that can work in collaboration with Flight Opportunities.

The first step is to reach out to Flight Opportunities to discuss your technology.

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Access Flight Tests

Flight Opportunities offers several avenues for accessing flights on commercial vehicles in order to test and demonstrate promising space-based technologies.

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Commercial Flight Providers

When non-U.S. government researchers compete for funding through the Flight Opportunities program's TechFlights solicitation, they can propose to use any viable U.S.-based commercial provider. For U.S. government research, NASA has IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contracts with several flight services vendors.

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Community of Practice Webinars

Designed to distill and share the most important lessons learned by suborbital researchers, these webinars are chance to hear from subject matter experts on best practices for preparing for suborbital flight tests.

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We offer a wealth of information, including past newsletters, yearly reports, fact sheets, and archives of past solicitations.

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Technology Portfolio

The portfolio of suborbital flight testing payloads includes all payloads selected from the beginning of the program in October 2010.

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