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SBIR Award will Advance Lunar Orbital Tracking Sensor

To be Deployed by Astrobotic on Commercial Lander Missions

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Tom Patton
Dec 09, 2025
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A NASA Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program Phase I award has been granted to Astrobotic to advance the development of Clavius-S (Cis-Lunar Automated Vision-based Identification of Unknown Satellites). The visible-band imaging sensor is designed to detect and track spacecraft real time in low lunar orbit from the Moon.

“As more spacecraft t…

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