SBIR/STTR Research Award
Asteria: Permanent Attachment of Supplementary Module to RSO
Award amount
$1,499,730Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- KALL MORRIS INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-21
- Contract end date
- 2024-10-21
- UEI
- DDLRDJ2PBS71
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
KMI’s Asteria module, the critical-function prototype constructed in Phase I, provides gecko adhesion for semi-permanent attachment to nearly any surface in orbit. The Asteria attachment utilizes gecko adhesion in a radial design for deployable permanent
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.
- Raw Resource Salvage and Shipment with Laelaps Autonomous Spacecraft
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
- Efficient Machine Vision Characterization of Unrecognized Tumbling Objects
- RSO Collection and Processing Station Optimization Analysis
- Permanent Attachment of Supplementary Module to RSO Analysis
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- On-orbit AI-driven Automation for Range Characterization Analysis
- Biomimetic System for Autonomous On-Orbit Capture
- Development of an analysis tool for automatic defect detection during on-orbit additive manufacturing process
- Nautilus Capture Mechanism Configuration: A Study to Compare Tolerances of Electrostatic and Gecko-like Adhesion of Spacecraft Docking System for Long-Duration Space Missions
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2023). Reported award amounts total $5,072,777. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense