SBIR/STTR Research Award
Supernova Solar Energy Collection and Storage (SECS)
Award amount
$1,237,913Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PORTAL SPACE SYSTEMS INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-02-09
- Contract end date
- 2025-06-09
- UEI
- FAFTW73TEKL6
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
The intention of this proposal is to advance the technology readiness of Portal's Supernova spacecraft. This proposal will involve the design and fabrication of the solar energy collection and storage subsystems of the Flare propulsion system that propels the Supernova spacecraft. Specifically, the proposal's efforts involve research and development to prototype and mature these key systems with the intention of enabling a near-term in space demonstration of the Supernova space vehicle.
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.
- Scaled Supernova Spacecraft
- Solar Concentrator Development and Validation Testing for Advanced Spacecraft Maneuverability
- Flare Propulsion Qualification Testing for Enhanced Dynamic Space Operations
- Highly Mobile Space Vehicle for Space Domain Awareness
- High Delta-V Space Vehicle for Persistent Orbital Tracking and Rapidly Responsive Space Operations
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- Evitado TACFI
- AI for Adaptive 3D Infrastructure Design in Navy Engineering
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Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $50,660,075. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense