SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autonomous Rendezvous Proximity Operation (RPO) for OSAM
Award amount
$249,978Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Space Micro Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-11
- Contract end date
- 2023-01-11
- UEI
- ED9EEK4ZRZG4
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
Space Micro and Draper Labs have teamed with support from Altius Space, to propose Autonomous Rendezvous Proximity Operation (RPO) capabilities which enable many missions that can be offered to the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) market as desired in the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime contract opportunity. Many of these missions will require RPO. RPO Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) enables the concurrence of two resident space objects and subsequent mission activities in a safe, repeatable, and proven method.
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.
- Optical communications in space enhanced with novel Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- High performance, AI-enabled, radiation hard, space computing platform for trusted autonomy
- Broadband Power Amplifier Hardware to Support RF Convergence
- Gimbal-less Free-Space Optical Communications Terminal with Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Compact Multi-sensor camera system with Artificial Intelligence with embedded AI for autonomous SSA/SDA
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- On-orbit AI-driven Automation for Range Characterization Analysis
- Biomimetic System for Autonomous On-Orbit Capture
- Development of an analysis tool for automatic defect detection during on-orbit additive manufacturing process
- Nautilus Capture Mechanism Configuration: A Study to Compare Tolerances of Electrostatic and Gecko-like Adhesion of Spacecraft Docking System for Long-Duration Space Missions
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
Research funding history
150 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2023). Reported award amounts total $58,449,422. 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 Homeland Security