SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optical Celestial Navigation System for High Mach High Altitude Operation
Award amount
$493,741Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Optical Physics Company
- Proposal award date
- 2013-01-03
- Contract end date
- 2013-10-03
- UEI
- NNMCZN2CS7D9
- Solicitation number
- 2008.1
- Topic code
- N08-073
Research abstract
During the Navy sponsored Phase II project (SBIR Contract N00014-09-C-0479) Optical Physics Company (OPC) built a miniaturized interferometric star tracker that operates in the near infrared region of the spectrum (MiST-IR). MIST-IR can detect the angular separation of stars very accurately. This accuracy enables MiST-IR to calculate a GPS independent celestial fix, i.e., latitude and longitude coordinates. The primary objective of this proposed Continuing Development (CD) project is to conduct high altitude ground testing of the key MiST-IR component.
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.
- Optical Celestial Navigation System for High Mach High Altitude Operation
- Optical Celestial Navigation System for High Mach High Altitude Operation
- Star Tracker Augmented Inertial Navigation System for High Altitude UAV
- High Mach, High Altitude Navigational Sensor
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