SBIR/STTR Research Award
CONCEPT FOR NUCLEAR-RELATED ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL/INFRARED RADIANCE MEASUREMENTS PROGRAM (POLARS)
Award amount
$54,807Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Recipient company
- MISSION RESEARCH CORP.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- P55KJMU9G7Y6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A CONCEPT FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A SATELLITE-BASED OPTICAL-INFRARED DISTURBED ATMOSPHERE SIGNATURE PROGRAM IS PROPOSED. THE INITIAL CONCEPT IS FOR A POLAR-ORBITING OPTICAL-INFRARED ANALOG TO THE HILAT SATELLITE WHERE-IN A HIGH PROBABILITY OF AURORAL ACQUISITION IS ANTICIPATED. INITIAL TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES OF CRYOGENIC OPERATION AND EXPECTED LIFETIME ARE DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF THE IRAS SUCCESS. THE CONCEPT FOR CORRELATED EXPERIMENTS OF AIRCRAFT AND GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS OF AURORA AND/OR A CHEMICAL RELEASE ARE INTRODUCED AND INCLUDE STRUCTURE INFORMATION. THE DATA-BASE POTENTIAL OF SUCH A CONCEPT EXCEEDS THE TOTAL DATA PRESENTLY AVAILABLE TO DNA NWE ATMOSPHERIC-EFFECTS MODELLERS, AND REPRESENTS A MUCH BROADER STATISTICAL SAMPLING THAN ROCKET-BASED EXPERIMENTS.
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.
- VHF/UHF Endo-Clutter SAR Fiducial Marker
- Improved UHF Antenna
- Integrated EO and RF Aperature
- Exploitation of Bistatic Radar Features for the Multi-Layered UAV and Time Criti
- Sensor Technology for Anti-Submarine Warfare
Research funding history
304 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2003). Reported award amounts total $65,320,871. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Transportation