GEOOPTICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF191-006
GEOOPTICS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $74,954
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF191-006
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2019-06-10 → 2020-06-10
Description
GeoOptics operates the CICERO constellation of 6U cubesats for weather applications, delivering over 1,000 GNSS radio occultation (RO) profiles daily to customers. CICERO carries the advanced “Cion� GNSS-RO instrument, derived from TriG, developed by JPL for COSMIC-2. The Cion offers TriG performance in a cubesat package. Under this SBIR we will enhance the CICERO/Cion system to improve RO performance and add the ability to collect GNSS reflections (GNSS-R) from oceans, snow, ice and land. This will yield an extended “CICERO-X� addressing five of the eleven SBEM data gaps: Ionospheric density, equatorial ionospheric scintillation, tropical cyclone intensity, ocean surface vector winds, and soil moisture. We will study five specific CICERO upgrades that could be implemented in a protoflight CICERO-X spacecraft and be ready to launch within 15 months of study completion.