Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: ASTROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY INC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2019-05-20 to 2023-04-30
Current total value of award: $7973959
Description: NASA RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT NRA DEVELOPMENT OF STAND-ALONE SENSOR FOR HIGH PRECISION PLANETARY LANDING WORK DELIVERS A TRL 9 TERRAIN RELATIVE NAVIGATION AND VISUAL VELOCIMETRY SENSOR TRN SENSOR PRODUCT BY DEMONSTRATING THE TRN SENSOR OPERATION ON A LUNAR LANDER MISSION.  SPECIFICALLY THE WORKS SEEKS TO DEVELOP A COMMERCIAL TERRAIN RELATIVE NAVIGATION (TRN) SYSTEM FOR LUNAR AND PLANETARY LANDERS. THIS SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE STAND-ALONE TRN AND VISUAL VELOCIMETRY VV SENSOR TRN SENSOR AND TWO CRITICAL TOOLS NEEDED TO PROVIDE TRN AS A MULTI MISSION COMMERCIAL PRODUCT A FAST, HIGH FIDELITY LUNAR SIMULATOR, AND AN ACCURATE LUNAR MAP GENERATOR. THE LOW-SWAP 2 U, 2.5 KG, 15 W PEAK PASSIVE-OPTICAL TRN SENSOR WILL ENABLE SPACECRAFT TO LAND PRECISELY WITHIN 100 METERS OF ANY ILLUMINATED DESTINATION ON MAPPED PLANETARY SURFACES, ENABLING A BROAD RANGE OF HIGH-IMPACT SCIENCE AND COMMERCIAL MISSIONS.