SBIR/STTR Research Award
Accelerating the development of the GEMS-PEARL Passive Microwave Sounding/Polarimetric Imaging Modular Payloads for SBEM
Award amount
$2,999,962Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ORBITAL MICRO SYSTEMS, INC. DBA Weather Stream
- Proposal award date
- 2025-01-15
- Contract end date
- 2027-01-14
- UEI
- JAU8M8UYCLB4
- Solicitation number
- 24.2
- Topic code
- SF242-D029
Research abstract
The GEMS-PEARL program is developing a modular family of passive microwave radiometer and polarimeter payloads that can integrated with a distributed constellation of satellites for the space based environmental monitoring mission area. This Phase II effort is focused on maturing the underlying hardware components of the GEMS-PEARL instruments to achieve TRL6 via environmental qualification of the hardware prototypes.
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.
- GEMS-PEARL OSVW Retrieval Demonstration
- Multi-Beam Passive Microwave Radiometer Design using Multi-Path Cross Correlation Radiometry
- SPECTral Radiative Transfer Unified Model (SPECTRUM) - Phase II Prototype
- SPECTRUM: a wide SPECTrum Radiative transfer Unified Model and algorithm development system
- Global Environmental Monitoring System - Passive and Exchangeable Advanced Radiometer for Low earth orbit (GEMS-PEARL)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Multi-Mission EO/IR Instrument Optical Assembly Prototype for Cloud Characterization, Theatre Weather Imagery and Wildfire Detection and Monitoring
- Swarm Radar Surveyor for Space Based Environmental Monitoring
- L-band Scanning Reflectarray Scatterometer for Multi-Functional Space-Based Environmental Monitoring
- Solving the SBEM Space Weather gaps via dense, global, low latency, GNSS RO electron density, scintillation , energetic charged particle, and cloud characterization observations on PlanetiQ microsatellites
- Millimeter wave hyperspectral radiometer receivers for next generation SBEM systems
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2026). Reported award amounts total $5,832,283. 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