SBIR/STTR Research Award
Using a Bore Sight Camera as an AR&D Sensor
Award amount
$99,880Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Advanced Optical Systems, Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2008-02-01
- Contract end date
- 2008-07-31
- UEI
- VY8ANDKL5ZJ7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X2.01
Research abstract
Orion requires a rendezvous and docking sensor to provide relative navigation information during proximity operations and docking. In order to dock, the sensor must provide full six degree of freedom (6 DOF) relative position and relative attitude information at a rate sufficient for the rendezvous spacecraft guidance system to robustly control the docking maneuver. Orion faces critical weight issues that make inclusion of multiple sensors for AR&D unlikely in its baseline configuration. Locations for mounting the sensors external to the spacecraft are also critical issues. A bore sight camera however will be included in the design to furnish crew video data for the final docking maneuvers. Clever utilization of this existing Orion bore sight camera can provide a robust 6DoF capability with only the addition of vision processing software.
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.
- Advanced Vehicle Recovery System (AVRS)
- Semi-Autonomous, Reliable, Safe Recovery of the Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle (RMMV) in Various Sea States.
- Innovative Sensor Packaging and Testing
- Rapid Assembly and Alignment of Electro-Optical Sensor Payloads
- Innovative Sensor Packaging and Testing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- Alternative Fabrication Designs for Carbon-Carbon (C-C) Nozzle Extensions
- Seeing Sound - Image Analysis of the Lift-off Acoustic Field
- Design and Analysis of Metal-to-Composite Nozzle Extension Joints
- Free-Surface Modeling of Cryogenic Fluids Using a Higher-Order, Unstructured Grid Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) Method
Research funding history
44 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2015). Reported award amounts total $14,772,953. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration