SBIR/STTR Research Award
LEO Debris Tracking and Remediation Using Advanced Beam Control
Award amount
$149,984Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MZA ASSOCIATES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2025-08-26
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-27
- UEI
- YEG4AQRRQFC6
- Solicitation number
- SBIR 2025-I
- Topic code
- Z-EXPAND
Research abstract
A high level system design for detecting, tracking and delivering a pre-compensated pulsed laser beam to LEO debris will be developed. The system will employ Rayleigh and sodium guidestars and multiple adaptive optics loops with high resolution deformable mirrors. Analysis will be performed to establish technical requirements and assess expected performance and efficacy. Funding will support the necessary research, design, and analysis work. Target market are NASA LEO debris mitigation in particular, but may also include free-space optical communication with ground and satellite terminals, astronomy, and long-range imaging.
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.
- Suggestive Modular AI-based Real-Time (SMART) Battle Management
- Sensor Platform for Optical Tracking of Launches and Intelligent T&E (SPOTLITE)
- Fast Wavefront Sensing for Mitigating Aero-Optical Effects
- Bistatic Engagement Algorithms and Methodologies (BEAM) PH II
- Advanced Beam Control and Wave Slap Mitigation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Green Propellant Rapid Orbital Mobility Bus
- Compressor for In-Space Gas Transfer and Pressurization
- Extending Space Debris Tracking to Sub-10 cm Objects with Next-Generation Radar
- Clavius-S: Lunar Surface Sensor Payload for Orbital Object Detection
- Clean Orbital Robotic Arm - COBRA
Research funding history
120 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2025). Reported award amounts total $68,625,691. 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