SBIR/STTR Research Award
Free-Flying Unmanned Robotic Spacecraft for Asteroid Resource Prospecting and Characterization
Award amount
$1,137,769Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Honeybee Robotics, Ltd.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-06-16
- Contract end date
- 2018-12-31
- UEI
- F7UHKQTEYHW8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- T4.02
Research abstract
In Phase 2 we will develop a fully integrated, autonomous free-flying robotic system based on a commercial SkyJib quadcopter, and demonstrate flying straight and level to a target location, acquisition of rock and regolith samples, and return to the point of origin.
The work plan for Phase 2 is as follows:
1. Completion of the Guidance, Navigation, Control, Vision, and Sample Acquisition subsystems.
2. Integration of all the payload elements at ERAU and system level check out
3. Demonstration of the entire system at NASA KSC
4. Field deployment at analog location
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.
- High Temperature Stirling Cooler
- Instrumented Bit for In-Situ Spectroscopy (IBISS)
- SLUSH: Europa Hybrid Deep Drill
- Europa Drum Sampler (EDuS)
- Universal Docking Interface for Free-Flying Robots
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Metal Production Away From Earth
- Planetary LEGO
- Regolith to Steel Powder, Oxygen & Water with Small Equipment
- Robotic Tool for Asteroid Resource Prospecting and Characterization
- Robotic ISRU Construction of Planetary Landing and Launch Pad
Research funding history
116 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2017). Reported award amounts total $36,289,766. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation