
Echo Time Distance Measurements for Nanosatellite ArraysAward last edited on: 1/23/2024
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NASA : ARCTotal Award Amount
$124,735Award Phase
1Solicitation Topic Code
S4.01Principal Investigator
Periklis E PapadopoulosCompany Information
American Academy of Aeronautics (AKA: American Academy Inc)
Location: Single
Congr. District: 00
County: Kent
Congr. District: 00
County: Kent
Phase I
Contract Number: NNX12CD28PStart Date: 2/23/2012 Completed: 8/23/2012
Phase I year
2012Phase I Amount
$124,735Potential NASA Commercial Applications:
(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) Synthetic apertures as used in radio astronomy and magnetometry are of interest to the scientific community. The military makes heavy use of synthetic apertures radar systems. Both the commercial communications industry and the military have interest in synthetic apertures as used in phased array communications antennas. Large-scale sensor arrays are of interest to the scientific community to measure and record physical phenomena such as solar disturbances and comet fly-by characterization.A significant reduction of equipment cost and deployment cost is achieved by allowing the vast majority of the satellites that compose a synthetic aperture (or sensor array) to be nanosatellites. Existing users of synthetic apertures and sensor arrays will find the value proposition of this cost reducing architecture compelling. The lower cost is also expected to make synthetic apertures (or sensor arrays) economically viable for new sets of applications.
Potential NON-NASA Commercial Applications:
(Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words) Synthetic apertures as used in radio astronomy and magnetometry are of interest to the scientific community. The military makes heavy use of synthetic apertures radar systems. Both the commercial communications industry and the military have interest in synthetic apertures as used in phased array communications antennas. Large-scale sensor arrays are of interest to the scientific community to measure and record physical phenomena such as solar disturbances and comet fly-by characterization.A significant reduction of equipment cost and deployment cost is achieved by allowing the vast majority of the satellites that compose a synthetic aperture (or sensor array) to be nanosatellites. Existing users of synthetic apertures and sensor arrays will find the value proposition of this cost reducing architecture compelling. The lower cost is also expected to make synthetic apertures (or sensor arrays) economically viable for new sets of applications.
Technology Taxonomy Mapping:
(NASA's technology taxonomy has been developed by the SBIR-STTR program to disseminate awareness of proposed and awarded R/R&D in the agency. It is a listing of over 100 technologies, sorted into broad categories, of interest to NASA.) Circuits (including ICs; for specific applications, see e.g., Communications, Networking & Signal Transport; Control & Monitoring, Sensors) Radio Relative Navigation (Interception, Docking, Formation Flying; see also Control & Monitoring; Planetary Navigation, Tracking, & Telemetry) Spacecraft Instrumentation & Astrionics (see also Communications; Control & Monitoring; Information Systems) Telescope Arrays
Phase II
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