SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
Award amount
$149,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-07-31
- Contract end date
- 2025-02-06
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- SBIR-2024-Phase 1
- Topic code
- Z1
Research abstract
This SBIR will develop optical wireless technology component technologies capable of long-range (0.1 to 20 km), scalable 100W to 5,000W of regulated power transfer with traceability to future Lunar and Mars missions. Particular attention is focused on meeting the environmental mission demands, securing high reliability, and improving overall power transfer efficiency relative to the state of the art.
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.
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. 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, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
Historical federal award activity, when published, is on that contractor profile. Matched by UEI only.
Agency intelligence
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAICS intelligence
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