Additive Innovations awarded NASA SBIR Phase I award for Low-Cost, Free-Form Optics using Silicon Carbide AM

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded Additive Innovations a SBIR Phase I award under its X-Ray Mirror Systems Technology topic to develop low-cost, free-form optics using silicon carbide additive manufacturing. Using Additive Innovations’ AM SiC product, the team will demonstrate the feasibility of using AM SiC as a substrate to produce complex free-form optics. At the end of the Phase I program, Additive Innovations will deliver 2 complex SiC optics for NASA’s evaluation.