SBIR/STTR Research Award
Speed Sensor for Planetary EDL: "SPRY"
Award amount
$739,196Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2017-04-14
- Contract end date
- 2019-04-13
- UEI
- K15KKHPFZ5T9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S4.01
Research abstract
The goal of these Phase I and Phase II efforts is to develop a micro atmospheric data sensor suitable for planetary entry, descent, and landing (EDL) maneuvers, in response to NASA?s SBIR topic S4.01, Planetary Entry Descent and Landing. Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) is proposing to develop a compact, rugged optical atmospheric data sensor capable of measuring free stream velocity during EDL; this sensor will use a novel microresonator approach as part of its light processing path, allowing unprecedented compactness and ruggedness. Phase I entailed the design and preliminary demonstration of the concept. A prototype atmospheric data sensor will be fabricated in Phase II and tested using a calibrated flow field.
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.
- Pigeon - An Urban Atmospheric LiDAR
- Egret - A LIDAR Sensor for Storm Water Monitoring
- PLUMESIGHT: LIDAR-Based Plume Classification
- PlumeSight: A machine learning based plume identification and classification method for LIDAR instrument data
- Miniaturized Nightglow Interferometer for Monitoring Emissions from a CubeSat
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra Compact Laser for 3D Imaging LIDAR
- Robust, Low SWAP Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing System
- Non-mechanical High-Resolution Low-SWaP Lidar
- An Enhanced Modular Terminal Descent Sensor for Landing on Planetary Bodies
- Ultra Compact Laser for 3D Imaging LIDAR
Research funding history
71 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2023). Reported award amounts total $22,024,167. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation