SBIR/STTR Research Award

High Performance Satellite Platform for Next Generation Heavy Launch Vehicles

Award identifier e1e7b62a972ae08416cb0e7b0076cbb7963daff5228e4da87558ce0d7a43563aAwarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$74,899

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
K2 SPACE CORPORATION
Proposal award date
2022-10-31
Contract end date
2023-02-01
UEI
ZXRFDXLXU575
Solicitation number
X22.4
Topic code
X224-OCSO1

Research abstract

K2 Space is building high performance satellite platforms to leverage the capabilities of the next generation of heavy and super heavy space launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship.  The K2 Space platform utilizes proven technologies applied at an unprecedented scale to deliver far more payload mass, power, and propulsive capabilities than current spacecraft while reducing the cost by an order of magnitude, and greatly decreasing production and payload integration times. Our platform is not dependent on unproven or underdeveloped technologies. Instead, it builds on existing state-of-the art methods and materials from aerospace and related industries, integrating them in an innovative way - trading mass for cost - in order to build a satellite platform that provides unprecedented budgets for mass, volume, power, shielding, and propulsion, allowing engineers to rethink the design of every system to maximize for performance and cost.  The resulting standardized, modular architecture meets or exceeds any expected requirements, while reducing the cost by an order of magnitude (approximately 10x) and decreasing payload integration times by a factor of 8.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $28,788,236. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

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

Agencies: Department of Defense

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Department of Defense

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