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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
News
- BP MARDI GRAS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
(Dec. 2005) has set a new world record for
pipeline installation depth at 7300ft in the Gulf of Mexico.
Astro
Technology provides the monitoring system for BP at this record
depth.
- Holstein Deployment (June 2004)
- Holstein spar
export riser in deepwater Gulf of Mexico instrumented by
Astro Technology in touchdown zone (4400ft depth) and top
section to monitor strain, temperature, vibration, and fatigue.
- Established Space Act Agreement
(March 2004) with NASA.
- LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)
pipeline monitoring (Spring 2004) cryogenic temperature
monitoring during LNG plant operation.
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Publication
- Subsea Houston
- Real-Time Flow Assurance
Monitoring with Non-Intrusive Fiber Optic Technology, Offshore
Technology Conference, May 2005
- Ambient Pressure Insulated
LNG Pipeline for Subsea Environments, Offshore Technology
Conference, May 2005
- Real Time Subsea Monitoring and
Control Smart Field Solutions, Subsea Rio, June 2004
- Structural Properties
Measurements in Deepwater Oil and Gas Fields using an Advanced
Fiber- optic Sensor Monitoring System, SAMPE, April 2005
- Real-time Fatigue Monitoring of
Deepwater Drilling and Oil Production Risers Using Fiber-Optic
Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring Conference, Stanford,
September 2003
- Fiber-optic Sensor Technology
for Solid Rocket Motor Components, JANNAF, July 2001
- Fiber-optic Sensor Technology
for Solid Rocket Motors, JANNAF, March 2001
- Real-time Fatigue Monitoring of
Deepwater Risers Using Fiber-Optic Sensors, ASME, February 2000
- Real-time Structural Monitoring
Using Fiber-optic Sensors, JANNAF, 1999
- Russian Solid Rocket Motor
Demilitarization Safety Issues, JANNAF,1999
- Fiber-optic Sensors in Solid
Rocket Motors, JANNAF publication, Dec.1996
- Service Evaluation of
Kevlar/Epoxy Pressure Vessels, JANNAF, Dec.1996
- Fiber-optic Strain Sensors, US
Army Fiber Optic Workshop, MICOM, May 1996
- Structural Monitoring
Presentation
- Pipeline Journal
- Oil and Gas Journal,
July 25, 2005
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NASASpinoff2004
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PRESS RELEASE - SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
Astro Technology Inc. (ATI)
was chosen as one of 97 firms to receive a NASA Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract. Fiber-optic sensors
will be used to instrument the five-fingered robonaut hand designed
by NASA engineers. The hand will be used aboard the International
Space Station. This work, to be done at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space
Center, will be a follow-on to the completed NASA SBIR Phase I
contract awarded to ATI to apply fiber-optic sensor technology to
robots used onboard the Space Shuttle.
ATI is a woman-owned
engineering firm that provides mechanical testing and experimental
stress analysis support to the aerospace, petroleum, civil
engineering, and solid rocket motor (SRM) industries. In business
since 1994, ATI has been awarded three National Science Foundation
(NSF) contracts and one Department of Defense (DoD) contract to
utilize fiber-optic sensors in monitoring strain on bridges and in
SRM’s. ATI has subcontracted with Lockheed Martin on two DoD
(Defense Nuclear Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency)
contracts to demilitarize SRM’s in Russia. Commercially, ATI has
contracted with major oil companies to apply fiber-optic sensor
technology to evaluate fatigue on offshore drilling rigs. The
fiber-optic sensor technology ATI has developed is also ideally
suited for many areas, including high-speed data acquisition systems
for measuring strain and temperature in wind tunnel tests,
structural monitoring of aircraft (both on-ground and in-flight),
and sensors in automobiles.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) Program
1999 SBIR Phase II Press
Release
Michael Braukus,
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(Phone: 202/358-1979)
September 6, 2000
RELEASE: C00-i
NASA SELECTS PROPOSALS FOR
NEXT LEVEL OF RESEARCH
NASA has selected 110
promising research proposals from 97 firms in 27 states for
negotiation of Phase-2 contract awards for its Small Business
Innovation Research program. The total value of the awards is
expected to be more than $66 million.
A total of 267 proposals were
submitted by contractors completing Phase-1 projects as part of
their 1999 awards. All proposals were peer reviewed for both
technical merit and commercial potential.
Phase-2 continues development
of the most promising projects selected from the first phase of the
competition. Selection criteria include scientific and technical
merit, future importance and eventual value of the innovation to
NASA, company capabilities and commercial potential.
The goals of the SBIR program
are to stimulate technological innovation, increase the use of small
business (including women-owned and disadvantaged firms) in meeting
federal research and development needs, and increase private sector
commercialization of federally funded research results. Eight of the
companies being announced today are disadvantaged firms and twelve
are women-owned firms.
The NASA SBIR Program
Management Office is located at Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, with executive oversight by NASA's Office of
Aerospace Technology, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. Individual
SBIR projects are managed by NASA's field centers.
A listing of the selected
companies can be found on the internet at: http://sbir.nasa.gov |
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