SBIR/STTR Research Award
Responsive and Expansible System for Low-Speed, High Altitude Target Retrieval
Award amount
$2,999,888Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- SPACEWORKS ENTERPRISES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-28
- Contract end date
- 2025-08-27
- UEI
- F4J9NKV7M7T8
- Solicitation number
- 23.4
- Topic code
- HR0011SB20234XL-05
Research abstract
SpaceWorks has designed a capture and retrieval system for low-speed, high altitude systems. The envisioned operational capability consists of a new high-altitude aerial platform, a capture system, a puncture/destabilization element, and a recovery system for intact retrieval of the target payload. SpaceWorks proposes to further mature the design of the operational system and advance the associated technologies through various risk reduction activities and testing to rapidly provide an initial operational capability.
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.
- FuseBlox System for Robotically-Assisted Cryogenic Applications
- Advancing Scramjet Technologies for Interceptors
- Development of Constrained Robotic Truss System for On-Orbit Antenna Assembly
- FuseBlox System for Robotically-Assisted Cryogenic Applications
- 6-Degree-of-Freedom Multi-Fidelity Closed-Loop Trajectory Tool
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Strategically Timely Resource for Intercepting Payloads from Balloons Actively Looking at our Land (STRIPBALL)
- Compact System to Capture Aerial Payloads (C-CAP)
- Apprehension of High-altitude Aircraft and Balloons (AHAB)
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2025). Reported award amounts total $22,311,452. 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