SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lunar Network Optical Terminals (LNOT)
Award amount
$4,990,810Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-09-11
- Contract end date
- 2022-09-10
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_20_P2S
- Topic code
- Z20
Research abstract
This proposed SBIR builds upon Fibertek#39;s NASA-funded Laser Communications Terminal (CLCT) heritage to develop new ultra-low SWaP-C technology to create a CubeSat/SmallSat Lunar Network Optical Terminal (LNOT). The LNOT will offer similar capability to state of the art Lunar lasercom systems but at a fraction the size, mass, power and cost making the technology affordable and accessible to NASA and Commercial space lunar missions. The emphasis of this SBIR is to extend customize our terminal to include NASA and beyond GEO design features to support long range, beyond lunar, communication including direct to earth, intersatellite links (ISL), relay links. LNOT will be designed to be interoperable with NASA SCaN optical ground stations and flight terminals and to become nodes in NASArsquo;s network.
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.
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. 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 Energy, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
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Agency intelligence
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAICS intelligence
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