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Precision Formation Alignment Navigation System
The Precision Formation Alignment Navigation System, or pFANtASY, is an integrated guidance and navigation subsystem for the acquisition and fine alignment of a dual spacecraft... -
Large-Area, UV-Optimized, Back-Illuminated Silicon Photomultiplier Arrays, Ph...
Large-area (3m2), UV-sensitive focal plane arrays are needed for observation of air showers from ultra-high energy cosmic rays (JEM-EUSO) as well as for visible-wavelength... -
Highly Scalable SiC UV Imager for Earth & Planetary Science, Phase II
Commercial silicon carbide (SiC)-based photonic sensors typically use p-i-n photodiode and reversed-biased Avalanche Photodiode (APD) detectors. These state-of-the-art SiC... -
Operationalizing SAR for agricultural decision support, Phase I
The innovation of Synthetic Aperture Radar for AGriculture (SARAG) is the operationalization and true integration of satellite radar remote sensing for agricultural monitoring... -
Development of the AMEGO Prototype Si Tracker Front End
Development of the front end electronics (FEE) for a prototype Si Tracker for AMEGO (All-sky Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Observatory; https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/amego/). AMEGO... -
Nanotechnology based X-ray Detectors for Space Observations, Phase I
X-Ray detector technologies that possess improved number of readout pixels, lower power, faster readout rates, greater quantum efficiency, and enhanced energy resolution are... -
Phase-mirror Enabled Efficient and On-demand Broadcast Technology for Space L...
We will develop an on-demand and real-time reconfigurable broadcast technology for near-Earth space laser communication envisioned by NASA. By using a programmable... -
Doppler Wind Lidar Measurements and Scalability to Space
Global measurements of wind speed and direction from Doppler wind lidars, if available, would significantly improve forecasting of severe weather events such as hurricanes,... -
Distributed Spacecraft Mission (DSM) Design Reference Framework and Testbed f...
Under a changing technological and economic environment, there is growing interest in implementing future NASA missions as Distributed Spacecraft Missions (DSM), particularly as... -
The First JFET-Based Silicon Carbide Active Pixel Sensor UV Imager, Phase II
Solar-blind ultraviolet (UV) imaging is needed in the fields of astronomy, national defense, and bio-chemistry. United Silicon Carbide, Inc. proposes to develop a monolithic,... -
Compact Laser for In-Situ Compositional Analysis, Phase II
In response to NASA's solicitation for light-weight and power efficient instruments that enable in situ compositional analysis, Q-Peak in partnership with the University of... -
Tapered Amplifiers for Cold-Atom Optical Systems (TACOS), Phase I
AOSense proposes to develop laser amplifier modules for cold-atom optical systems. The device would deliver > 1 W of optical power at 852 nm by fiber when paired with an... -
Photonic Lanterns for Optical Communications
We propose to investigate the use of photonic lanterns for free space optical communications. Photonic lanterns have the potential to provide a pathway to lowering the cost and... -
Miniaturized Magnetometers
We will develop miniaturized magnetometers for use on very resource-constrained missions. Specifically we will develop two types of magnetometers that will require significantly... -
Advanced Li batteries for terrestrial balloons, Phase I
For future advanced terrestrial balloon missions, NASA requires energy dense and power dense energy storage solutions significantly exceeding the performance of state of art Li... -
14-Decades Calibration in Airborne Detectors for Environmental Science (14DeC...
The 14-DeCADES SBIR leverages the results of a FY13 spontaneous IRAD and a subsequent successful Phase 1 SBIR which characterized and tested key elements that will lead to a... -
Stress Free Multilayer Coating for High Resolution X-ray Mirrors
Most of X-ray optics research and development in the US is to build a high resolution, large collecting area and light-weight optic, namely an soft X-ray mirror for the X-ray... -
X-ray Computed Tomography Image Quality Indicator (IQI) Development
Phase one of the program is to identify suitable x-ray Computed Tomography (CT) Image Quality Indicator (IQI) design(s) that can be used to adequately capture CT system... -
High Energy Laboratory Astrophysics using an X-Ray Microcalorimeter with an E...
"Since the summer of 2000 we have successfully deployed a high resolution x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer, based on the spaceflight XRS instrument, at the Electron Beam Ion... -
Widely Tunable Semiconductor Laser at 1650nm for Greenhouse Gas LIDAR Detecti...
In this program, Freedom Photonics is developing a low cost, semiconductor based widely tunable laser for multiple green gas detection. This laser source can be used in...
