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Back to Company SearchAscendArc, Inc.
UEI: VRVVME77NKB5
Number of Employees: 14
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
SBIR/STTR Involvement
Year of first award: 2024
2
Phase I Awards
1
Phase II Awards
50%
Conversion Rate
$184,979
Phase I Dollars
$1,799,924
Phase II Dollars
$1,984,903
Total Awarded
Awards
Rapid, Scalable Narrowband Satellite Communications
Amount: $109,997 Topic: AFX24E-TPCSO1
The Department of the Air Force, DoD and American commercial entities have all identified the immediate need to rapidly scale our SATCOM capabilities and bandwidth to meet real-time requirements and match mounting threats from near-peer adversaries like China and Russia. With the AscendArc platform, warfighters are able to rapidly respond to increased data demands, increase satellite coverage and bandwidth all at a fraction of the cost. It has been demonstrated time and again that the current SATCOM solutions do not meet the current data demands of our military and weapon systems. As demonstrated in the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, Ukraine desperately needed a rapid solution for data exchange and their only option was Starlink, a bandwidth provider with issues of cost, coverage, reliability and redundancy. It is clear that if the United States were to enter a conflict with a near-peer adversary, current solutions would not be able to support the demand of a large scale military operation. With increasing reliance on narrowband applications, the DoD is actively seeking the next replacement for the MUOS satellite constellation.
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase I
2025
DOD
USAF
Rapid, Scaleable Geosynchronous Bandwidth
Amount: $74,982 Topic: AFX237-PCSO1
The Air Force, DoD and American commercial entities have all identified the immediate need to rapidly scale our SATCOM capabilities and bandwidth to meet real-time requirements and match mounting threats from near-peer adversaries like China and Russia. With the AscendArc platform, warfighters are able to rapidly respond to increased data demands, increase satellite coverage and bandwidth all at a fraction of the cost. It has been demonstrated time and again that the current SATCOM solutions do not meet the current data demands of our military and weapon systems. As demonstrated in the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, Ukraine desperately needed a rapid solution for data exchange and their only option was Starlink, a bandwidth provider with issues of cost, coverage, reliability and redundancy. It is clear that if the United States were to enter a conflict with a near-peer adversary, current solutions would not be able to support the demand of a large scale military operation. AscendArc manufactures bandwidth. Using a novel design, AscendArc has created a satellite which has a low production cost, low cost per launch, and flexible deployment, targeting multiple high value customers. With AscendArcÆs design, we are able to launch 30 satellites on a New Glenn or Starship rocket, allowing a flexible and responsive area of coverage, which enables redundant operations.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2024
DOD
USAF
Rapid, Scaleable Geosynchronous Communications
Amount: $1,799,924 Topic: AFX237-PCSO1
DoD and commercial communications satellite operators face the problem of high procurement costs, up to $1B for tradition MILCOM satellites, long lead times to field new capacity, ranging from 4 to 10 years, and vulnerability to technical and market disruption over their 10 to 15 year on-orbit lifespans. Operators face a high risk of obsolescence when investing up to a $1B in an asset that will still be in service 20 years after the start of procurement. In addition, DoD operators face the unique threat of jamming and physical destruction of satellites when key capabilities are concentrated in a small number of high value assets. AscendArc provides a low-incremental-cost, rapidly-deployed, high-bandwidth solution by applying volume production techniques and a unique configuration to the design of a small geostationary satellite. AscendArc replaces monolithic, high-cost geostationary satellites with scalable, resilient clusters of up to 30 AscendArc satellites and achieves bandwidth economics 10X better than any system in service today.
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase II
2024
DOD
USAF