SBIR/STTR Research Award
Miniature Airborne Methane Sensor
Award amount
$124,611Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- KALSCOTT ENGINEERING, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-06-20
- Contract end date
- 2014-12-19
- UEI
- KNGUBRJ8WAD1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.07
Research abstract
KalScott Engineering, and the subcontractor, Princeton University propose the development and demonstration of compact and robust methane sensor for small Unmanned Aerial Systems (s-UAS) by synthesizing state-of-the-art, laser-based detection methods with the rapidly increasing s-UAS market. The overall goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate (via flight test) laser-based flight-weight methane sensors. In Phase I, the sensor will be built and lab-tested, followed by initial flight tests on KalScott's Cessna 210. In Phase II, a refined version of the sensor will be built, and flight tested, first on the Cessna, and then on a small UAS.
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.
- Multipurpose Autonomous Ground Vehicle for Airfield Operations
- Autonomous Ground Vehicles for Airfield Support
- Rapidly Deployable Unified Air Traffic Monitoring System
- Organic Airspace Monitoring System for Aerial Wildfire Response Operations
- Low SWaP-C RemoteID Device for UAS
Awards with the same topic code
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- Monolithic Chip-Integrated Absorption Spectrometer from 3-5 microns
- Coded Aperture Techniques for High-Throughput Imaging Spectroscopy
- Instrument for Airborne Measurement of Carbonyl Sulfide
Research funding history
57 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $18,451,949. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation