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Microcosm, Inc. is proposing to complete the buildup of the suborbital rocket (SR-M) vehicle and launch this vehicle within twelve months of the authority to proceed. The suborbital rocket SR-M can carry up to a 2,400 pound payload. The SR-M offers considerable flexibility and performance while achieving low mission cost. Variations of the vehicle can be created to form the core of various mission ...

The proposed effort will design, build, and demonstrate a revolutionary and long overdue advancement to space communications. Through the use of native IP, Innoflight will introduce seamless networked communications through space vehicle links, ground stations, the mission operations center and end users. Our proposed solution includes a powerful link encoder, IP/HDLC, Type 1 HAIPE encryption, G ...

Efficient structures requiring low-volume and low-mass have an important role in future military and commercial missions especially in theatre of space. These structures can increase the peformance of applications requiring large apertures such as space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnasissance systems. These structures can also be efficient as inflatable, deployable target simulator ...

Mobility Air Force assets deployed in forward positions are vulnerable to enemy air defenses and require protection, typically provided by high-power standoff/support jammer aircraft loitering outside the range of enemy missiles while radiating high-power jamming waveforms at large region of enemy territory. However, the position of the jammer may be such that the jamming power is directed at the ...

HyPerComp, a premiere developer of innovative and highly scalable computational environments for time-domain electromagnetics, proposes to develop, demonstrate and deliver the next generation TEMPUS (Time-Domain EM Parallel Unstructured Simulator)environment to perform cost-effective and routine X-band to 20 GHz computations for full-scale targets with general materials to provide highly accurate ...

Deployable-Space-Systems (DSS) has developed an ultra-lightweight elastically self-deployable roll-out solar array (ROSA) that when combined with ultra-thin 33% IMM PV flexible blanket technologies can produce a near-term and low-risk solar array system that provides revolutionary performance in terms of high specific power (>500 W/kg BOL w/IMM), lightweight, high deployed-stiffness, high deployed ...

Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) have demonstrated themselves as a commercially viable technology. Recent technology developments have lead to a new class of commercial VCSELs designed for high power operation. Phase I feasibility testing has verified that these devices are favorable candidates for high power military applications. In this Project, Aerius Photonics will develop ...

This Phase-II SBIR proposal proposes the use of a new class of diamond-seeded solid-state material system for the manufacture of virtually all packaged intense heat-generating solid-state electronics in X-band and Ballistic Missile Defense radar components and systems. In this proposal wherein much preliminary (also MDA-funded) work has been demonstrated hitherto by the authors, Gallium Nitride-on ...

The development of an orbital Maneuvering and Transfer Vehicle (MTV) that can be safely manifested aboard the Space Shuttle and meet U.S. Air Force Space Test Program orbit transfer performance requirements is critical to launching secondary experimentalpayloads from Space Shuttle Hitchhiker Experiment Launch System (SHELS). The objective of this project is to develop a prototype MTV Propulsion M ...

High performance RF payloads have been identified as providing significant utility for applications on Nano Satellites and Cube Satellites in low earth orbits. In the Phase 1 study various CubeSat payloads were studied for utility. Various missions were identified as high payoff demonstrations for on orbit experiments. Conventionally orbital experiments would be tied to primary missions and we ...