XPLORE INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: J201-CSO1
XPLORE INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $49,970
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- J201-CSO1
- Solicitation
- 20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- WA
- Period
- 2020-03-09 → 2020-06-09
Description
Xplore is a privately-funded company building modular spacecraft to explore the inner solar system. The ‘Xcraft’ is Xplore’s first generation high performance ESPA-class vehicle. It utilizes electric propulsion, a 1.75 meter high-gain antenna, and a modular payload bay to fit mission specific instruments. Xplore’s approach to space exploration is to demonstrate existing PNT techniques and algorithmic solutions on its 2021 lunar mission that lay the foundation to establish a distributed set of commercial and government PNT nodes across cislunar space with every US launch.