SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reusable Space Debris Removal (SDR) System
Award amount
$74,502Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- OUTPOST TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2024-05-10
- Contract end date
- 2024-08-19
- UEI
- WTH6GSXPMZS9
- Solicitation number
- X24.5
- Topic code
- AFX245-PCSO2
Research abstract
Outpost is creating the world's first reusable satellites that will come back to Earth after mission completion and get refurbished for repeat missions such as space debris clean up. Ultimately this technology will reduce future space debris and contribute to the long term sustainability of human life in space while making the cost of a satellite mission up to 80% cheaper and 100% cleaner. Outpost will use this feasibility research and development study to determine if its Earth return satellite Ferry can provide targeted space debris clean up as near peer adversaries continue to create challenges in the space battle environment. ???????
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.
- Autonomous Paragliders for Martian Landings
- Outpost STRATFI RFP Response
- Orbital Earth Return Vehicle with Alt-GPS Landing Capabilities in Contested Environments
- STEEP - Shielding Technology for Exoatmospheric Experiments and Payloads
- Space GARAGE: Space Global Asset Resupply and Gear Enhancement
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Thermal Runaway Resistant Li ion Batteries
- Advanced Real-Time Flush Air Data System (FADS) for Blunt-Nosed Space Reentry Vehicles and Weapons
- Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion with Oxygen Resilience for Long Duration Operation in VLEO
- A Highly-Efficient and Scalable Conjunction Assessment Framework for On-Orbit Spacecraft Protection
- space Resource Automatic Scheduling mission Operations Requests (RASOR)
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2025). Reported award amounts total $25,116,774. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration