TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Low Burden Star Tracker (TOP2-265)

Notice ID:

T2P-ARC-00059

Department/Ind. Agency:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Sub-tier:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

All Dates/Times are:

(UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA

Updated Published Date:

(UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA

Original Published Date:

2020-10-29 17:21:00

Original Response Date:

Oct 29, 2021 05:00 pm EDT

Inactive Policy:

15 days after response date

Original Inactive Date:

Nov 13, 2021

Initiative:

• None***--***

Product Service Code:

9999 - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

NAICS Code:

927110 - Space Research and Technology

Original Set Aside:

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: A star tracker or similar navigation device is needed for a Small Spacecraft, to provide highly accurate attitude information and to determine location and velocity vectors. NASA has developed a novel technology, a star tracker, as part of its extremely low cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware project. It uses relatively low power, is highly accurate, and is relatively inexpensive, uses an iterative pattern matching approach to identify a star configuration and associated spatial viewing direction in a database that corresponds to an observed star configuration. Orientation of a star configuration is confirmed by comparison of measured angular differences with angular differences contained in a database. Star configurations viewed from a polyhedrron defined by two, three, four or more non-coincident planes can be used to estimate a three-dimensional viewing direction of the polyhedron. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA’s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-265 If you have any questions, please e-mail NASA’s Technology Transfer Program at Agency-Patent-Licensing@mail.nasa.gov with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this beta.SAM.gov notice and your preferred contact information. For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA’s Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.

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Primary Point of Contacts:

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program