SBIR/STTR Research Award
Boom Assisted Rendezvous and Capture for Tumbling Targets
Award amount
$249,950Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ALTIUS SPACE MACHINES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-07-05
- Contract end date
- 2022-11-05
- UEI
- NQFFR1EKKZH1
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
Altius proposes development of a Boom Assisted Rendezvous and Capture robotic arm, in collaboration with Sandia National Labs and Opterus R&D, in a proposal focused on Track 2 of the Orbital Prime Solicitation. Altius Space Machines proposes to develop BA
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.
- Docking Anchoring and Towing Universal Match-plate (DATUM) for DoD Spacecraft
- ISA Simplifying Interconnect with Realtime Verification
- Sidelobe Interlink with ModPak for Bi-directional I/O Telecommunications
- MR CLAW: Magneto-Rheological Capture, Locomotion, Anchoring, and Workholding
- Reachbot Systems for OSAM Mobility (CrawlBot) and Anchoring (AnchorBot)
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
21 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2011–2023). Reported award amounts total $7,162,006. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense