Additive Innovations Awarded NASA SBIR Phase I Award for Low-Cost, Free-Form Optics using Additively Manufactured Silicon Carbide (AM SiC)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 7, 2024 — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 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 two complex SiC optics for NASA evaluation.