SBIR/STTR Research Award
Solid Propulsion Engineered for CubeSat Kinetic Operations (SPECK-Ops)
Award amount
$988,899Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- EXQUADRUM INC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-27
- Contract end date
- 2019-09-17
- UEI
- H369JK4TTZ24
- Solicitation number
- 2017.1
- Topic code
- SOCOM17-003
Research abstract
During the proposed Phase II research and development effort, the project team will develop and demonstrate the Solid Propellant Engine for Enhanced Delta-V (SPECK-Ops) to provide a responsive, high-thrust orbital maneuvering, propulsion capability to CubeSats. The system will be tested simulated space environments and subject to various space qualification tests. The resulting propulsion system would use safe, non-toxic propellant and would not be pressurized during launch.
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.
- ULTRA-VK Exoatmospheric Flight Test
- RAMEN-HPMOP for On Demand Microclimate Control
- Low-cost Objective Kinetic Interceptor DACS (LOKI DACS)
- DACS Verde (Low Cost Green Propellant)
- Electric Pulse Ignition Controllable SRM (EPICS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Innovative CubeSat Payloads for USSOCOM Space Missions
- CubeSat Laser Communications (CubeSat LaserCom)
- Solid Propulsion Engineered for CubeSat Kinetic Operations (SPECK-Ops)
- LinkStar, a high performance, secure, integrated flight computer and radio system for CubeSats
- Innovative CubeSat Payloads for USSOCOM Space Missions
Research funding history
71 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $34,293,675. 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 Agriculture, Department of Energy