SBIR/STTR Research Award
Characterization of plume-target interactions for safe rendezvous and detumbling of uncontrolled assets
Award amount
$1,497,235Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ATOMOS NUCLEAR AND SPACE CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-21
- Contract end date
- 2024-10-23
- UEI
- MK8KXNNB85D5
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
Servicing spacecraft typically use Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters to provide precision position and attitude control during rendezvous. The plumes from these thrusters can unintentionally impinge on surfaces of the target spacecraft, or they can
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.
- Evolved Propellant Transfer Interface - High Pressure Propellant Capable
- Verification of Third-Party Rendezvous with Refueling Tanker on 5DOF Validation Testbed
- Adaptation of on-board mission planner for semi-autonomous RPO operations and abort procedures
- A Novel Method for De-Tumbling Resident Space Objects with OTV Thruster Plumes
- Rendezvous with Charged LEO Satellite
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- 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
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2024). Reported award amounts total $5,381,576. 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