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P-POD and RocketPod on Steroids

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: W31P4Q-07-C-0106
Agency Tracking Number: 06ST1-0097
Amount: $98,975.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: ST061-011
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-12-20
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-06-28
Small Business Information
398 W. Washington Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
United States
DUNS: 931006337
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Rex Ridenoure
 CEO
 (626) 798-2436
 rridenoure1@eclipticenterprises.com
Business Contact
 John Scully
Title: CFO
Phone: (626) 798-2436
Email: jscully1@eclipticenterprises.com
Research Institution
 CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO
 J Puig-Suari
 
Aerospace Engr. Department Cal Poly Stat
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
United States

 (805) 756-6479
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation (Pasadena, CA) and California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo, CA) will conduct exploratory and advanced development of a family of concepts enabling cost-effective, recurring opportunities for launching very small (<20 kg) `microsat' to `nanosat' to `picosat' secondary payloads on existing and emerging U.S. launch vehicles and spacecraft while also allowing for deployment and capable proximity operations of such systems around their host platforms once in space. The proposed effort starts with elements of the proven "P-POD" launch system for CubeSat-class (10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm; ~2 kg) space systems overseen at Cal Poly and elements of the novel RocketPodT CubeSat-class launch system invented (and now patented) by Ecliptic. RocketPod is derived from Ecliptic's very successful RocketCamT family of onboard video and imaging systems for use with rockets and spacecraft. We start with these concepts, refine them, and also scale up a bit, like "P-POD and RocketPod on steroids."

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