Award Data

AtomBeam’s software is now in use over Inmarsat satellites with live customer data, reducing runtime data in real time by over 75%. No other software technology can, in real time, significantly reduce the size of the small messages generated by machines, such as tracking and telemetry, in real time.   AtomBeam is highly effective for files as small as five bytes. In contrast, compression typica ...

Mission need comes down to secure communications, C2, and data that maintains integrity throughout Tx/Rx pathways. This becomes n^2 more difficult as the n number of nodes in the space ground architecture increases. SpiderOak will adapt its commercial OrbitSecure suite to provide fully decentralized software-defined control and data planes with expert key management and strict policy enforcement. ...

Ragnarok's radiation-hardened (RH) reconfigurable Flight Computer (FC) for SmallSats sustains > 300 krads of TID and > 84 MeV-cm^2/mg SEE as a crucial part of the GN&C system that supports ADCS and C&DH using a Fault-Tolerant synthesizable processor. Using the latest 28nm technology, the RHFC consumes less power over SRAM-based FCs and operates faster than its predecessor. The radiation-hardened F ...

  The amount of unstructured data on missions is increasing every minute of every day. This is a huge challenge for the military and commercial companies - especially in the space community - where the data vastly exceeds the capacity limits of the communication systems that transmit the data to the ground. However, this big data challenge can be combated by developing next-gen space hardware spe ...

Polaris Semiconductor has pioneered a voltage regulator technology that can raise and lower DC voltage with zero electromagnetic interference (EMI), an extremely compact footprint and high efficiency. This overcomes long-standing pain-points associated with incumbent solutions based on switching regulators, including drawbacks associated with conducted and radiated EMI, high component count, large ...

K2 Space provides the ability to deploy a constellation of 4+ highly performant satellites of up to 1-ton payload each, on a single Starship launch.  K2 Space is building satellite platforms for the next generation of heavy and super heavy lift space launch vehicles exemplified by SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn by using a novel engineering approach of accepting higher mass in o ...

To effectively employ the CCS capability, Operators must project and be able to counteract target signal waveforms with the utmost precision. Adversary communication networks continue to increase in complexity and in their ability to thwart Electronic Warfare (EW) systems like CCS. Astrapi created physical-layer signal security called “Symbol Waveform Hopping” (SWH) based on novel symbol wavef ...

WildStar is developing a spacecraft with the world’s first ultra-high gain LEO VHF Antenna Array (LVAA), which with the addition of the proper electronics can be operated as a Leo VHF Electronically Steerable Array (LVESA). The E-Space VHF antenna array will have tremendous value for the Space Force as it will be the only system capable of communicating with very small low power StarTag devices ...

Traditional Space sensors provide single modality information which typically then need to be coregistered and integrated on the ground.  As the time of relevance shrinks significantly and processing moves to the forward edge onboard platforms to minimize the need to downlink large amounts of information back to a ground processing node, sensors that can collect and co-register multiple modalitie ...

Globally persistent, timely and continuous detection and tracking of missiles and hypersonic vehicles is necessary to protect our nation from these threats.  Because of advances in hypersonic vehicle technology, these threats are now more difficult to detect because of their high speed and unpredictable flight paths.  To address this urgent need, the Space Development Agency (SDA) has developed ...