SBIR/STTR Research Award
Parametric VLF Loop Antenna
Award amount
$149,858Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- L'GARDE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-12-12
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-12
- UEI
- LEUWTPVHDXA8
- Solicitation number
- 19.3
- Topic code
- AF193-006
Research abstract
The objective of the proposed effort is to carryout the design to the PDR level of a large diameter thermally insensitive lightweight, compactable, deployable VLF loop space antenna in the 20m diameter aperture range. The key to achieving highly accurate, large antenna diameter with low mass, low stowed volume operating at high RF frequency is the use of the L.Garde elastomeric shape-memory composite (SMC) material for the loop antenna and the Opterus Deployable Retractable Boom (DRB). The prototype parametric VLF antenna will be developed through PDR level and after CDR during Phase II, it should be ready for an in-space flight experiments.
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.
- Bolt-On Capture Detumble Deorbit Device
- SOLSTICE Test Program
- Deployable Capture Device for Orbit Debris
- Lightweight and Low Stow Volume Solar Concentrator for Lunar Based In-Situ Resource Utilization
- Design Tool for Highly Accurate Shape and Structural Evaluation of Space Antennas and Structures made with Tailorable Composites - SMART
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Design Ready to Fly Parametric Antenna Prototype for Efficient Very Low Frequency (VLF) Wave Excitation in the Ionospheric/Space Plasma
- Design Ready to Fly Parametric Antenna Prototype for Efficient Very Low Frequency (VLF) Wave Excitation in the Ionospheric/Space Plasma
Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $21,901,140. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce