Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF141-106
Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $1,479,560 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code AF141-106 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,479,560
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF141-106
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- 2016-08-01 → 2018-07-31
Description
The 2011 launches of ORS-1and TacSat-4 have demonstrated the feasibility to rapidly deploy spacecraft. These successes and progress on the Modular Space Vehicle, along with standardization (Space Plug and Play Architecture) continue to show promise in a responsive space architecture focused on modularity and reconfigurability. There is a need to enhance the capability of small spacecraft to support this paradigm via miniaturized, high performance, and cost-effective components. Small, agile space companies can act as liasons between the commercial and space markets to leverage their strengths to ensure products are robust to the space environment, carry appropriate mission assurance and risk profiles, and can be delivered in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of conventional space components. Honeybee Robotics proposes to offer an attitude determination and control system tailored to nano-sat class spacecraft. This product will enhance and optimize a small spacecrafts attitude control capability at a fraction of the cost and lead time associated with conventional attitude control system designs.