SBIR/STTR Research Award
Extended Long Ranger
Award amount
$69,942Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- STAR TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH INC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-05-26
- Contract end date
- 2010-11-30
- UEI
- GBKQPX23P5J7
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- N093-223
Research abstract
Our innovation is a low-cost method for removing orbital debris. We propose to remove debris from medium and high Earth orbits, as well as from LEO, and do it much more cheaply than conventional rockets. Our approach uses a combination of propellantless and high-Isp propulsion and high-power solar arrays to drive a robotic vehicle with nets to capture debris objects and carry them to re-entry or to a safe storage orbit, all under positive ground control.
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.
- High-Altitude Morphing Aircraft (HAMAC) Flight Demonstrations
- High Altitude Morphing Aircraft (HAMAC)
- Active Multi-Winglets for Improved Aircraft Performance and Ride
- Mechanisms for Tether-Powered Space Vehicles
- Not Available
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Pulsar Signal Processing for Spacecraft PNT Applications
- High Priority, Large Orbital Debris Remover
- Low Cost Orbital Debris Capture Net and Solar Sail
- Azimuthal-Current Drive (ACD) Plasma Beam for Space Debris Mitigation
- Low Cost Orbital Debris Removal System
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2010). Reported award amounts total $2,616,075. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense