SBIR/STTR Research Award
10X Better Space Solar Power
Award amount
$70,853Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SOLESTIAL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-05-12
- Contract end date
- 2023-08-11
- UEI
- DBWMUS4BBNP1
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
50% of the entire cost to put a million-dollar satellite into orbit comes from the satellite’s solar panels. Even worse, these panels lose 10-15% efficiency each YEAR from radiation exposure. These Chinese manufactured solar panels put U.S. national secur
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.
- Multi-Orbital and Fast to Manufacture Solar Array Wing for Tactical Response Satellites
- Improving Solar Cell Protection and Efficiency with polymer downconverting coating
- Next Generation Silicon Based Solar Arrays for Space Stations and Other Permanent Space Infrastructure
- Next-Generation Silicon Based Solar Arrays for Space Stations and Other Permanent Space Infrastructure
- Improving Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency with LUVCONcoating
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of a Semi-autonomous Handheld Robotic Device to Enable Rapid Vascular Access By Non-specialists in Austere Environments
- Evitado TACFI
- AI for Adaptive 3D Infrastructure Design in Navy Engineering
- Smart Thermal Protection Systems for Hypersonics
- Sub-THz Reflectarrays: An Alternative Architecture for Enhanced Array Scaling with 3D Heterogeneous Integration for DoD ELGAR Use Cases
Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,024,850. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation