SBIR/STTR Research Award
Interferometric Tracker for CubeSats
Award amount
$149,783Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Optical Physics Company
- Proposal award date
- 2013-01-18
- Contract end date
- 2013-07-17
- UEI
- NNMCZN2CS7D9
- Solicitation number
- 2012.2
- Topic code
- N122-146
Research abstract
Optical Physics Company (OPC) is proposing to design, fabricate, test and deliver a payload package suitable for testing on a CubeSat. The payload"s design is based on OPC"s proven interferometric star tracker with demonstrated extraordinary accuracy in detecting and tracking many faint sources simultaneously in many different types of demanding missions. The Phase I effort will culminate in a Critical Design Review (CDR). The rapid technical progress is made possible by other past and ongoing work on this star tracker. During the Phase II effort, a prototype of the CubeSat payload will be built and demonstrated in a laboratory space environment.
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.
- Compact High Energy Laser Beam Director
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Compact High Energy Laser (HEL) Beam Director
- Non-linear Adaptive Optics
- Small Satellite System for Space Surveillance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- SkyLight Free-Space Optical Terminal for Cubesats
- Novel CubeSat Payloads for Naval Space Missions
- SeaCubeRadar Altimeter for CubeSats
- Interferometric Tracker for CubeSats
- Novel CubeSat Payloads for Naval Space Missions
Research funding history
70 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2021). Reported award amounts total $35,389,096. 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 Commerce, Department of Energy