SBIR/STTR Research Award
SkyLight Free-Space Optical Terminal for Cubesats
Award amount
$2,499,986Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- SA PHOTONICS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-11-21
- Contract end date
- 2021-06-02
- UEI
- YNEBKYE8ZZN7
- Solicitation number
- 12.2
- Topic code
- N122-146
Research abstract
SA Photonics has developed our Skylight FSO terminal for cubesat and small-sat applications. Skylight is a fully integrated FSO system including all data processing, optical transmitters and receivers, and integrated beamsteering in a 1.5U form-factor meeting the SWaP of cubesat applications. In this Phase II program, we will upgrade the Skylight system based on new and improved design concepts, and develop and deliver two flight units to the Navy. This upgraded Skylight system has a unique architecture that is very robust to shock and vibration. SA Photonics will support satellite integration and support on-orbit operation of the FSO terminals.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Freeform Optics for Small Arms Fire Control
- Hardened, Optically-Based Temperature Characterization of Detonation Environments
- Trust and Situational Awareness in Augmented Reality Soldier Training
- Multimode-Coupled High-Frequency Photoreceiver
- High Fidelity Underwater Tracking System (UTS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Novel CubeSat Payloads for Naval Space Missions
- SeaCubeRadar Altimeter for CubeSats
- Interferometric Tracker for CubeSats
- Novel CubeSat Payloads for Naval Space Missions
- Novel CubeSat Payloads for Naval Space Missions
Research funding history
265 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2022). Reported award amounts total $116,820,259. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security
Contractor profile
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