SBIR/STTR Research Award
Extremely Low SWaP-C Space Magnetometer for LEO Satellite Attitude Determination
Award amount
$109,971Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PROTONEX LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-01-14
- Contract end date
- 2025-04-17
- UEI
- K82GMYAGGU66
- Solicitation number
- X24.E
- Topic code
- AFX24E-TPCSO1
Research abstract
All Space Vehicles require attitude feedback and magnetometers are key to providing it. The proposed Space Magnetometer leverages PNI Sensor’s COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) RM3100 magnetometer. The RM3100 is low SWaP-C and produced at scale by PNI at its headquarters in Santa Rosa, California. Unlike other commercially available magnetic sensors, the RM3100 magnetometer, which is based on a magneto-inductive sensing technology, has over 23 times greater resolution and 33 times less noise than comparable SWaP magnetometers. It is unparalleled in resolution and sensitivity for its power, mass, size, and large dynamic range. In addition to its extraordinary signal to noise, drift stability, and high resolution, the RM3100 has been verified to be extremely radiation tolerant, and as such, is already being used in a wide variety of Space applications.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- PNI Sensor Enhanced Pilot Locator Beacon for GPS Denied Environments
- Enhanced Magnetic Navigation for Aircraft
- Pilot and Aircrew Locator Beacon for Mission Operations in GPS-Contested Airspace with Adversary Obfuscation Capabilities
- Low SWaP-C M3100 Hardened Vector Magnetometer for Manned, Unmanned and Weapon Systems
- Tightly Coupled Integration of the Field Ops Remote Tracker (FORT) Inertial Tracking Module with a COTS GPS Receiver to create an extremely EW resilient Tracking Device
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Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2024–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,630,452. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense