SBIR/STTR Research Award
Software and Sensor System for Autonomous Rendezvous Adaptive Docking Solution “ARADS”
Award amount
$74,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- EXPLORATION LABORATORIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-04-27
- Contract end date
- 2023-08-04
- UEI
- J9S9WV2SAFG6
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
ExLabs is developing its Arachne system as the next generation of spacecraft for RPO capture and redirection mission profiles for LEO debris mitigation, defense purposes, and station keeping, with long term pursuit of NEO Asteroid capture for return to Lu
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.
- Space Exploration Resource Vehicle for in-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (SERVSAM)
- Origami Solar Array - OSA
- Mechanical System for use with Super-Heavy Launch Vehicles for Autonomous Capture and Acquisition (ACQR) of Targets of up to 30m in diameter
- Mechanical System for use with Super-Heavy Launch Vehicles for Autonomous Capture and Acquisition (ACQR) of Targets of up to 30m in diameter
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
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,667,470. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense