SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced X-ray Tomographic Inspection and Adversary Spacecraft Characterization
Award amount
$62,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- THINKORBITAL INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-12-15
- Contract end date
- 2024-03-15
- UEI
- JVNVLEJFNUH3
- Solicitation number
- X23.7
- Topic code
- AFX237-PCSO1
Research abstract
The characterization of satellites, both friendly and adversarial is currently limited to EO/IR mechanisms which enables easy avoidance/deception and has limited utility for fault identification of friendly satellites. ThinkOrbital proposes utilizing X-Rays that are generated by our proprietary electron beam technology coupled to precision measuring devices used in terrestrial industries such as security imaging, non-destructive inspection, and the medical field enables detailed imaging of the interior of spacecraft. Advanced signal processing can beĀused to generate detailed 3-D imagery of satellites.
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.
- ThinkPlatform: Modular In-Space Construction Powered by ThinkToolkit
- Orbital Staging of Assets
- ThinkOrbital TACFI
- Orbital Staging of Assets
- Penetration X-ray Inspection of Spacecraft
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- AI Enhanced Battle Damage Assessment and Ballistic Prediction for Medium Range UAS
- Accurate Drone Localization Using Lighthouse's Innovative Computer Vision-Based Airspace Management System and Integrated RF Sniffing
- QuickSAT/SHERLOCK, An AI Architecture For In Situ Vehicle Monitoring, Vehicle Health Management and Fault Detection
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,342,279. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration