SBIR/STTR Research Award
Technologies Enabling Distributed Spacecraft Missions (DSM)
Award amount
$749,799Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-13
- Contract end date
- 2021-08-12
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_18_P2
- Topic code
- Z8
Research abstract
This proposed SBIR will build on Fibertek#39;s NASA-funded Compact Laser Communications Terminal (CLCT) heritage to develop new ultra-low SWaP-c technology that can transform this unit into a Distributed Spacecraft Missions (DSM) capable laser communications terminal supporting small satellite intersatellite links (ISL) as well as deep space downlinks to Earth using relay satellites. This approach leverages previous NASA and commercial investments in the CLCT and can enable mission adoption within the next 5 years.This SBIR proposes to update the CLCT design for baseline DSM operational use to enable mesh networks by independently pointing three or more optical terminals on a single satellite and to develop a low SWaP serially concatenated pulse-position modulated (SCPPM
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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