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Miniaturized Radiation Hardened Beam-Steerable GPS Receiver Front End

Award Information

Agency:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2012 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
104958 		Solicitation Year:
2010 		Solicitation Topic Code:
O4.02 		Solicitation Number:
Small Business Information
Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc.,
12834 Earhart Avenue Auburn, CA -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2012
Title: Miniaturized Radiation Hardened Beam-Steerable GPS Receiver Front End
Agency: NASA
Contract: NNX12CA35C
Award Amount: $749,923.00
 

Abstract:

Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) capability via GPS services are used by NASA for (1) real-time on-board autonomous navigation, (2) attitude determination and (3) earth science including sea height and climate monitoring. It is expected that over the next two decades approximately 95% of ALL space missions will operate within the GPS service envelope. GPS receivers will be "embedded" in most instruments and will require improved SWAP and increased sensitivity for improved tolerance from large interferers and/or ruggedness to multipath errors. The RFIC developed in this Phase II will have 4 coherent GPS receivers on a single silicon die which improves the SWaP metric over the existing solution by 30x. In addition to supporting beam steering capability, it'll provide interference tolerance and signal recovery in multipath environment, such as those during positioning of precision equipment on the International Space Station (ISS). The other NASA programs that will benefit from this device are:1. Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission2. Sexton GPS receiver for Xray Telescope on ISS.3. COSMIC IIA,B Missions4. Jason III Mission for OceanographyThe schedule in this proposal will have the delivery of the initial prototype samples made available to NASA in 12 months.Estimated TRL In: 3Estimated TRL Out: 4

Principal Investigator:

Michael Shaw
Principal Investigator
5308239786
mshaw@tahoerf.com

Business Contact:

Irshad Rasheed
Business Official
5308239786
irshad@tahoerf.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc.,
12834 Earhart Avenue Auburn, CA -

EIN/Tax ID: 320037166
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No