Hybrid-electric aircraft developer Ampaire has received $150,000 in funding from NASA for its High Efficiency Powertrain for Hybrid Aircraft (HEPHA) project, the company announced on December 9. The Phase 1 award from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program will help to fund the “sizing, architecture and other analytical studies” for Ampaire’s hybrid-electric powertrain over the next six months, the company said in a statement.
The California-based company hopes the Phase 1 award will be a prelude to a possible Phase 2 award, which would fund the installation and testing of Ampaire’s powertrain on a Cessna Skymaster testbed aircraft known as the ARPA-E Bird. The U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced research unit, ARPA-E (short for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), has previously used the Cessna Skymaster for research purposes.
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