SBIR/STTR Research Award
Enhanced Electrodynamic Tethers for High Altitude Deorbit Operations
Award amount
$249,994Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-23
- Contract end date
- 2023-01-23
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is partnering with Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) and Tethers Unlimited Inc. (TUI) to combine PSI’s patent-pending passive cathode coatings and devices developed for spacecraft electrostatic discharge mitigation with TUI’s flight-proven, TRL9, tether-based deorbit system. The synergy of these technologies will rapidly result in a passive high altitude electrodynamic tether deorbit system capable of deorbiting satellites in
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency