SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Miniature Optical Sensors for Space-Based Monitoring of the Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2010-09-15
- UEI
- DRYZNRMCBKL6
- Solicitation number
- 2007.1
- Topic code
- AF071-290
Research abstract
As the Air Force moves toward the deployment of many smaller satellites, it would be useful to develop smaller versions of SSUSI and GUVI imagers to take advantage of these multiple platforms, so that global measurements could become an operational reality. The goal of Phase II shall be to develop hardware and software for a low-cost, high sensitivity optical sensor to provide remote sensing of the ionosphere and/or upper atmosphere from space platforms. The name of the new instrument is GUVITO (Global Ultra-Violet Ionosphere-Thermosphere Observatory).
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.
- Low-latitude Scintillation Nowcasting and Forecasting
- Small TEnuous Plasma Heliophysics Electric field Instrument (STEPHEI)
- Compact All Sky Interferometric Doppler Imager (CASIDI)
- Dragster: An Ensemble Assimilative Model for Satellite Drag
- Dragster: An Ensemble Assimilative Model for Satellite Drag
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Ionospheric Monitor using a High-sensitivity Imager (AIM-HI)
- Advanced Miniature Optical Sensors for Space-Based Monitoring of the Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere
Research funding history
56 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2023). Reported award amounts total $18,884,787. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce