SBIR/STTR Research Award
Large Additive Manufactured Smooth Astronomical Mirror
Award amount
$149,810Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- RELATIVE DYNAMICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-09-26
- Contract end date
- 2023-06-26
- UEI
- VZSNHL5NAJR3
- Solicitation number
- 22.A
- Topic code
- AF22A-T002
Research abstract
The Airforce is looking for high-quality, 3D printed, astronomical mirrors for use in telescopes supporting Space Domain Awareness. Due to the high cost associated with traditional manufacturing methods, such as diamond turning, additive manufacturing (A
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.
- High-Speed Photonic Integrated Analyzer for Unconditionally Entangled and Noise Squeezed Quantum States
- Balloon Lasercom Terminal
- Ground Optical Communication Array Terminal
- Metalens Near InfraRed Telescope
- Ground Optical Coherent Array Terminal
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Nanoscale Resolution Additive Manufacturing Platform
- Rapid Additive Mirror Processes (RAMP) Phase 2
- Additively Produced Telescope Mirrors Phase II
- Fabrication of Lightweight Mirrors for Ground-Based Telescopes via Commercial 3D Printing
- On-Demand Additive Manufacturing of Astronomical Mirrors
Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2025). Reported award amounts total $4,570,127. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense