Michigan Aerospace Corporation SBIR Phase I Award, August 2020

Michigan Aerospace Corporation proposes to model a remote-sensing instrument, based around a Fabry-Perot interferometer, for sensing thermospheric winds from anbsp;CubeSat-class satellite during this Phase I base effort. nbsp;This work will provide an important, relatively inexpensive and compact instrument option for measuring thermospheric winds, with implications for improving space weather observations and forecasts and improving the modeling of the solar/terrestrial interaction. nbsp;Michigan Aerospacersquo;s extensive experience with Fabry-Perot interferometers and sensor systems based on them, including for thermospheric sensing, will help pave the path towards this programrsquo;s success.