This is a $124,829 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Santa Barbara, CA. The contract is for the development of a miniaturized 3D flash LIDAR sensor to enable safe autonomous landing and hazard avoidance capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in national airspace. This sensor technology is an extension of the 3D flash LIDAR used in NASA's ALHAT system for autonomous lunar...
Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., a small business for-profit organization, was awarded a $125,000 firm fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the design and development of an enhanced terrain relative radar altimeter/velocimeter sensor to support future planetary landing missions. This sensor will be an improvement over the Terminal Descent Sensor...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Herndon, Virginia. The $124,924 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a configurable, multi-beam, 1.5 micron Doppler LIDAR sensor enabled by high-speed non-mechanical beam steering. This new LIDAR technology is intended to provide enhanced performance and reduced size, weight, and power...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. for the development of a non-mechanical, high-resolution, low size, weight, and power (SWAP) LIDAR system. The objective is to create a compact LIDAR sensor that can provide real-time, high-resolution terrain mapping data to support future NASA planetary and asteroid/comet exploration missions using small autonomous space...
Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., a small business, was awarded a $749,315 firm-fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop a modular, small, high-performance Terrain Relative Terminal Descent Radar (TDR) for range and velocity sensing of planetary landing vehicles and proximity operations. The innovations include improvements to the size, weight, and reproducibility of the design, a modular architecture, and enhanced detection...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC for the development of a common configurable 3D Flash LIDAR sensor under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The goal is to advance the underlying Focal Plane Array (FPA) and laser technologies to enable a subsequent Phase II demonstration of the common Flash LIDAR sensor, which NASA has identified as a key technology for autonomous entry, descent,...
This is a $749,927 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. for the development of a non-mechanical 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. The objective is to build a compact LIDAR sensor that meets the size, weight, and power (SWAP) requirements of future planetary landers for NASA's space exploration missions. The LIDAR system will provide high-resolution terrain...
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of goods and provider of research and development services. The contract is valued at $754,999.00 and aims to advance the technology readiness level of 3D flash lidar technologies suitable for NASA mission requirements. This includes fabricating, characterizing, and testing a high-sensitivity InGaAs avalanche photodiode 3D...
This is a $129,991 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The contract is for the development of an ultra-compact, high-energy, high-repetition-rate, diode-pumped solid-state pulsed laser system operating in the 1500-1600 nanometer spectral band. This laser system is intended to support NASA's remote sensing, mapping, and...
This is a $122,910 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering services. The contract is for the development of a 2U CubeSat-based 3D imaging photon-counting LIDAR system capable of long-range (>100 km) topology and rendezvous sensing for NASA's upcoming asteroid, comet, and planetary exploration missions. The LIDAR system is designed to provide unprecedented performance at a fraction of the...