SBIR/STTR Research Award

Albedo - 10cm Imagery for Tactical ISR Missions

Award identifier 2221be5b36186c8b9658e49eb1cffcacecac9389baa13cea470b920907e17e82Awarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$74,503

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2023

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Air Force
Recipient company
ALBEDO SPACE CORP.
Proposal award date
2022-10-31
Contract end date
2023-02-04
UEI
C32VLDY1XUH3
Solicitation number
X22.4
Topic code
X224-OCSO1

Research abstract

Albedo is designing and building the first very low earth orbit (VLEO) constellation of twenty-four 10 cm GSD electro-optical + 2m thermal infrared (EO/TIR) satellites that will produce 9x the number of pixels over an area compared to today’s 30 cm best-in-class satellites from Maxar, and 25x the pixels from the more common 50cm resolution Planet Skysats.  The low cost, ubiquitously available (when at scale), and unclassified imagery will allow Air/Space Force ISR professionals a significant advantage identifying enemy military aircraft and vehicles and their movements. Higher resolution pixels provide the additional detail required for feature recognition to fingerprint a single military vehicle. With higher resolution and AI, timelines to identify military vehicles can decrease to less than 1% of the time needed for humans to perform the task unaided.  In addition, confidence in those AI or human detections can increase 30% or more with Albedo’s higher resolution.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2025). Reported award amounts total $2,673,624. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

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

Agencies: Department of Defense

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