SBIR/STTR Research Award
Precision Spacecraft Instrumentation Booms
Award amount
$149,943Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- M.M.A. DESIGN LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-06-07
- Contract end date
- 2017-04-03
- UEI
- HJGNEC99TWV5
- Solicitation number
- 2016.1
- Topic code
- AF161-081
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: Various embodiments of deployable booms have been used for decades in space applications but few, if any, have been realizable for the smaller form factors inherent to SmallSat, MicroSat, and NanoSat platforms. With the foregoing in mind, MMA Design proposes to develop the Base Actuated Deployable Astro (BADA) Boom, which is a high-reliability truss boom that deploys from a 1U stowed volume to an overall length in excess of 10 meters.; BENEFIT: The BADA boom facilitates the implementation of mission-enabling components for small spacecraft such as scientific instruments, magnetometers, solar arrays, and even antennas.
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.
- In-Space Assembled Booms for Deployable Lidar Instruments
- A 4 Square Meter High Aspect Ratio X Band Antenna for Small Satellites
- Deployable Ku/Ka/W Tri-Band Cylindrical Parabolic Antenna
- Space Debris Engagement and De-Orbiting Device
- Improved Solar Cell Power for Cubesats
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
20 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2023). Reported award amounts total $11,235,796. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration