ASTRANIS SPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF193-CSO1
ASTRANIS SPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $49,344
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF193-CSO1
- Solicitation
- DoD SBIR X19.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2019-12-12 → 2020-12-12
Description
Astranis Space Technologies Corp. (San Francisco, CA) dramatically lowers the cost and lead time of manufacturing and deploying telecommunication satellites, building an affordable and scalable global infrastructure. Their breakthrough satellite technology— MicroGEO—offers the United States Air Force a low-cost solution of flexible microsatellite bandwidth options. With some of the top engineers in the world for antenna design, signal processing, structures, and embedded software recruited from NASA and SpaceX, Astranis has quickly garnered the attention in the commercial new space industry attracting over $53M in venture capital financing by top-tier investors including the famed Andreessen Horowitz fund in Silicon Valley.