TETHERS UNLIMITED, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: TUI proposes to develop two novel technologies that will enable pico-satellites in LEO to
TETHERS UNLIMITED, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $98,400
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2012.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- WA
- Period
- 2012-09-05
Description
TUI proposes to develop two novel technologies that will enable pico-satellites in LEO to efficiently close the link with standard issue handheld radios on the ground. The first technology is a dual-band software-defined radio that will provide UHF SATCOM to soldiers on the ground and a unified S-band link for backhaul and spacecraft command and control. The second technology is a deployable antenna with a range-compensating radiation pattern designed to provide a uniform power density to the entire 60 degrees view of the Earth from a Nadir pointing LEO spacecraft. Together, these two component technologies will provide a high performance communications capability to the US Army"s dismounted soldiers.