Sidus Space to host MobLobSpace radar payload on LizzieSat for NASA debris tracking study

Sidus Space to host MobLobSpace radar payload on LizzieSat for NASA debris tracking study

Sidus Space Inc has been selected as a subcontractor to MobLobSpace Inc under a NASA Small Business Innovation Research award to support a mission concept hosting a space-based 4D radar system on the LizzieSat satellite platform for space domain awareness.

The six-month Phase I effort will concentrate on mission design and planning for integrating the radar payload with LizzieSat to deliver space domain awareness data services aimed at tracking orbital debris down to centimeter-scale objects.

Under the 173,000 dollar NASA SBIR award, MobLobSpace will design and mature an adaptive electronically scanned array radar as part of NASA's Space Sustainability Strategy activities. Sidus Space will define t