Alex Ignatiev
Principal investigator.
Space
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2019First federal award
$2.1MFederal grants as PI6 awards
2Patents grantedLatest Jun 23, 2026
375Papers7,227 citations
Federal awards and patents by year
AwardsPatents
6 awards · $2.1M
| Date | Agency | Award | Amount | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2021 | NSF | SBIR Phase II SBIR Phase II: Protoflight Design and Validation of Molten Regolith Electrolysis Facility For Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization | $1.0M | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. |
| Feb 5, 2021 | DoD | STTR Phase I In-Space Manufacturing and Servicing of High Emissivity Coatings for Satellite Servicing and Spacecraft Life Extension Applications | $50K | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. with University of Houston |
| Nov 18, 2020 | DoD | STTR Phase I Pulse Power Based Additive Manufacturing of Functional Aircraft Parts from Refractory and Ceramic Materials | $150K | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. with University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| Aug 19, 2020 | NASA | SBIR Phase I In-Space Vacuum Deposition Joining | $125K | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. |
| Dec 12, 2019 | DoD | SBIR Phase I In-Salvo: In-Space Deposition of Optical Coatings for Directed Energy Defeat of Cruise Missiles | $50K | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. |
| Nov 6, 2019 | DoD | SBIR Phase II In-Silico: In-Space Deposition System for Dielectric Optical Coating Development | $700K | LUNAR RESOURCES, INC. |
3 patents as inventor
- US 12612690LUNAR RESOURCES, INC.Apr 28, 2026
- US 12662727LUNAR RESOURCES, INC.Jun 23, 2026
- US LUNAR RESOURCES, INC.—
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Peer ranks
Federal funding#330
Awards as PI#92
Patents#46
Companies
- LUNAR RESOURCES, INC.Linked by awards · Space
Research institutions
Federal awards through Oct 21, 2026 and patents through Oct 20, 2026. Awards come from NIH, NSF and other agency records that name a principal investigator; DoD and NASA contract awards do not, so they are not shown here. Researchers are matched by name and company.