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SOLSTICE Test Program
Award Year: 2024
UEI: LEUWTPVHDXA8
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Congressional District: 45
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I

Awarding Agency
DOC
Branch: NOAA
Total Award Amount: $174,976
Contract Number: NA24OARX021G0029
Agency Tracking Number: 3217797
Solicitation Topic Code: 9.5
Solicitation Number: NOAA-OAR-TPO-2024-2008184
Abstract
L.Garde proposes the SOLSTICE test program to advance the Technology and Manufacturing Readiness Level (TRL & MRL) of its vectored solar sailcraft from 4 to 6 to provide a commercially viable solution to NOAA’s unmet requirements for solar wind data from 0.98AU to enable advanced solar storm warning. This test program advances the current NOAA/Aerospace Space Weather study with L.Garde to design the SOLSTICE vehicle and mission to sub-L1. During the proposed 6-month period of performance the L.Garde led team will build a full scale engineering test unit of the SOLSTICE vehicle based on the current study design for ground deployment testing and to serve as a manufacturing pathfinder for the subsequent commercial flight program. The SOLSTICE vehicle is capable of achieving and maintaining this duty station for a minimum 5-year mission. As a cost-effective platform, SOLSTICE expands upon NOAA’s Uncrewed Systems Strategy of collecting critical and time sensitive data from terrestrial aircraft and maritime systems by placing a UxS able to provide a new commercial solar wind data source at the edge of cislunar space.
Award Schedule
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2024
Solicitation Year -
2024
Award Year -
August 1, 2024
Award Start Date -
January 31, 2025
Award End Date
Principal Investigator
Name: Linden Bolisay
Phone: 7142590771
Email: linden_bolisay@lgarde.com
Business Contact
Name: Linden Bolisay
Phone: 7142590771
Email: linden_bolisay@lgarde.com
Research Institution
Name: N/A