SBIR/STTR Research Award
Exploiting Commercial Microelectronics for Space Applications
Award amount
$749,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Space Micro Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-04-19
- Contract end date
- 2012-07-21
- UEI
- ED9EEK4ZRZG4
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- AF083-192
Research abstract
The Space Micro team will develop both radiation hardened optoelectronic interface chips with guaranteed radiation performance for DoD and NASA space programs. The data rates will be in excess of 10 Gbps for space optical transceivers. We will leverage commercial off the shelf (COTS) semiconductor processes with radiation hardening techniques. The final Phase II output is a miniature Space Hardened Optical Transceiver (SHOT) which embeds these devices. BENEFIT: The devices and subsystem evolving from this SBIR will enable use of optical communications in space with data rate up to and above 10 gbps. The availability of radiation hard components will allow long lifetime in orbit of grater than 10 years. Programs which will benefit are next generation DoD laser communications satellites such as TSAT follow on, Enhanced AEHF, and DARPA F6.
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.
- Exploiting Commercial Microelectronics for Space Applications
- New algorithmic hardening schemes and multi-bit error detection/correction to enable the use of commercially derived memories in space
- Exploiting Commercial Microelectronics for Space Applications
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