SBIR/STTR Research Award
COAST Validation Flight As A Hosted Payload
Award amount
$4,499,825Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- GEOOPTICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-08-29
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-03
- UEI
- KJFPMM5FLW58
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- AF191-006
Research abstract
Under a current ONR grant, GeoOptics is developing a cubesat-based space radar called COAST (Cellular Ocean Altimetry/Scatterometry Technology) to measure sea surface topography, surface vector winds, soil moisture, snow and ice cover, and other surface properties. The current contract matured the COAST flight system design, including instruments and 12U spacecraft. under this SBIR we propose to build a COAST instrument package, including dual-frequency cubesat radar, microwave radiometer for calibrating water vapor, and GNSS precise orbit determination system, for a demonstration and validation flight as a hosted payload.
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.
- Swarm Radar Surveyor for Space Based Environmental Monitoring
- CICERO-X: Cubesat System for GNSS Radio Occultation and Ocean Reflections
- 6U CubeSat EO/IR Solutions for Operational Weather Demo
- A Pilot Weather Data Linker
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Cloud characterization with the Compact and Configurable Imaging system (CaCtI)
- Microwave Weather Imager in a Cubesat form - MWIC
- 6U CubeSat EO/IR Solutions for Operational Weather Demo
- CubeSat Sensor Package for Cloud and Weather Observations
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2025). Reported award amounts total $8,412,979. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce