SBIR/STTR Research Award
12U Agile Inspector CubeSat
Award amount
$149,797Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ExoTerra Resource, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-08-03
- Contract end date
- 2018-05-03
- UEI
- KG3LJWXMHJ25
- Solicitation number
- 2017.1
- Topic code
- AF171-074
Research abstract
ExoTerra's 12U Agile Inspector CubeSat uses technology developed for deep space NASA missions to enable transit from LEO to GEO by a 12U CubeSat. This enables an affordable mission that can improve the ability to observe objects in GEO by over an order of magnitude. The system uses an iodine electric propulsion system and high specific power solar arrays to provide over 6 km/s of delta V at the highest thrust to weight ratio available in the industry. This minimizes trip time through the Van Allen belts to reduce radiation levels and rapidly begin operations.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- SEP Upper Stage for Small Launch Vehicles
- SEP Upper Stage for Small Launch Vehicles
- HIGH POWER, HIGH DELTA V, 12U CUBESAT HOSTED PAYLOAD OPPORTUNITY
- AMBEC: Advanced Micro Brayton Energy Conversion
- Modular Xenon Micro Electric Propulsion System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Geosynchronous Roaming Reconnaissance and Inspector Spacecraft
- Geosynchronous Roaming Reconnaissance and Inspector Spacecraft
- Terrapin Agile Inspector Satellite
Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2021). Reported award amounts total $3,311,496. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense