SOLSTAR SPACE COMPANY — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: X22D-OTCSO1
SOLSTAR SPACE COMPANY — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I STTR 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 $74,128. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $74,128
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- X22D-OTCSO1
- Solicitation
- X22.D
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2022-11-04 → 2023-02-04
Description
Solstar’s Critical Data Relay Wide Band (CritDR-WB), aka Slayton, is a modular device that easily integrates into a satellite prior to launch, to provide wideband communications between that satellite and the ground, leveraging new commercial broadband satellite networks and newly available flat panel antennas to augment the current Space Force Satellite Control System (SPSCS). By using commercially-based Iridium/Telesat links, satellite constellation owners gain the ability to have near real time command and control over their vast fleet of orbital assets. Slayton revolutionizes in orbit communications by essentially offering the first ever commercial “WiFi” in space.