SBIR/STTR Research Award

Solstar Space Company - Continuous Spacecraft System Communications

Award identifier 4271dd5902b5325d30e183e072c706c8eaaab5c6c04657364395598cd0c2af60Awarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$74,128

Program and phase

STTR · Phase I

Award year

2023

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Air Force
Recipient company
SOLSTAR SPACE COMPANY
Proposal award date
2022-11-04
Contract end date
2023-02-04
UEI
EKZQJNBP2J54
Solicitation number
X22.D
Topic code
X22D-OTCSO1

Research abstract

Solstar’s Critical Data Relay Wide Band (CritDR-WB), aka Slayton, is a modular device that easily integrates into a satellite prior to launch,  to provide wideband communications between that satellite and the ground, leveraging new commercial broadband satellite networks and newly available flat panel antennas to augment the current Space Force Satellite Control System (SPSCS). By using commercially-based Iridium/Telesat links, satellite constellation owners gain the ability to have near real time command and control over their vast fleet of orbital assets.  Slayton revolutionizes in orbit communications by essentially offering the first ever commercial “WiFi” in space.

Technology keywords

Not reported

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Research funding history

6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2025). Reported award amounts total $2,846,084. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II

Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

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