EXPLORATION LABORATORIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AFX235-CSO1
EXPLORATION LABORATORIES LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Defense in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $74,989. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code AFX235-CSO1 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $74,989
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AFX235-CSO1
- Solicitation
- X23.5
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2023-04-27 → 2023-08-04
Description
ExLabs is developing its Arachne system as the next generation of spacecraft for RPO capture and redirection mission profiles for LEO debris mitigation, defense purposes, and station keeping, with long term pursuit of NEO Asteroid capture for return to Lu