SBIR/STTR Research Award
Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ORBIT FAB, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-02
- Contract end date
- 2020-08-02
- UEI
- K21RB9EGCKD5
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- AF192-001
Research abstract
Orbit Fab’s core technology is the RAFTI Fueling Port. This docking and fuel transfer interface was developed using the requirements gathered from 20 different end users. RAFTI replaces the fill/drain valves that satellites use today giving the flexibility to refuel assets in orbit for the same cost.
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.
- Development and On-Orbit Commissioning of Critical Systems for Proximity Operations and Future In-Space Refueling
- ESPA Port Refueling Module
- Dynamic Mobility Through On-Orbit Refueling
- Dynamic Mobility Through On-Orbit Refueling
- Active Docking Mechanism for On-Orbit Satellite Refueling
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Main Injector Development for Reusable Methane Rocket Engine
- Adaptive Neural Machine Translation Solution OCR Research and Domain-Adaptation Scaling Prototype
- ObsSIM Modeling & Simulation Support - AFLINX Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)
- The NPS Multi-band Sensor Suite
- FlightWave Edge-130 VTOL UAS TACFI
Research funding history
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2023). Reported award amounts total $20,971,931. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration