SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Performance UHF Antenna for Nano-satellites
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Space Micro Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-09-16
- Contract end date
- 2011-03-16
- UEI
- ED9EEK4ZRZG4
- Solicitation number
- 2010.1
- Topic code
- N101-105
Research abstract
The Space Micro team has design concepts fora high efficiency UHF antenna which has potential to meet Navy SPAWAR CubeSat/Nanosat future needs. Ability to work with the MUOS bandwidths will be demonstrated. Our approach will provide a conformal antenna subsystem in either 1U or 3U Cubesat dimensions with minimal atmospheric drag which will enable longer life missions for DoD than current University class Cubesats. Space Micro''s knowledge of space environmental effects (including radiation and atomic oxygen) enable us to simulate and demonstrate costings for antenna survivability. Working with MUOS prime contractor. Lockheed Martin, and other space primes will allow transition and early flight heritage prior to operational satellite application.
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.
- Optical communications in space enhanced with novel Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- High performance, AI-enabled, radiation hard, space computing platform for trusted autonomy
- Broadband Power Amplifier Hardware to Support RF Convergence
- Gimbal-less Free-Space Optical Communications Terminal with Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Compact Multi-sensor camera system with Artificial Intelligence with embedded AI for autonomous SSA/SDA
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High-Isolation Transmit and Receive Antenna System
- High Performance UHF Antenna for CubeSats and Nano-satellites
- Self-Orienting Low-Drag UHF Nanosatellite Antenna
- Self-Orienting Low-Drag UHF Nanosatellite Antenna
- High UHF Slot Antenna for Nano-Satellites
Research funding history
150 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2023). Reported award amounts total $58,449,422. 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 Homeland Security