SBIR-STTR Award

Rapid CubeSat Development
Award last edited on: 10/18/22

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$73,523
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
AF191-007
Principal Investigator
Bob Vogt

Company Information

MainStem LLC (AKA: Main Stem LLC~Racktop Federal Systems)

8170 Maple Lawn Boulevard Suite 180
Fulton, MD 20759
   (443) 276-6973
   info@racktopsystems.com
   www.blacklynx.tech
Location: Single
Congr. District: 03
County: Howard

Phase I

Contract Number: FA9453-19-P-0640
Start Date: 7/1/19    Completed: 7/1/20
Phase I year
2019
Phase I Amount
$73,523
BlackLynx Technologies is please to submit a proposal in response to AF191-007 Special Topic, Rapid CubeSat Development. Our company is well poised to address current schedule issues with CubeSat missions by focusing on time requirements associated with a) Mission Concept Development and Requirements Allocation, a significant portion of the Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE), and, b) hardware procurement, a combination of both NRE and Recurring Engineering (RE). Our approach to the study involves defining processes that make heavy use of our mission modelling expertise and tool set to reduce the concept design phase while constraining the problem to available hardware, thus reducing NRE across the program.BlackLynx also intends to show how more capable on-board processing, also referred to edge compute, could be leveraged to define very capable and expandable payload processing in order to further reduce NRE in both the spacecraft and payload designs.Furthermore, this on-board capability would alleviate downlink requirements and the need for high speed communications links during the mission. Streamlined communications results in streamlined frequency allocations. The following proposal will lay out the details of our approach and the impacts to a CubeSat development cycle.CubeSat Mission Definition,Mission ConceptDevelopment Streamlining,High Fidelity Mission Modelling,CAIV Trade Effectivity,ON-Board Processing Definition,General Purpose Hardware,High Performance Compute,Heterogeneous Compute Fabric

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