Saraniasat Inc. SBIR Phase I Award, June 2019

SaraniaSat is pleased to respond to the AF191-006 Special Topic requirement for Rapid development of technologies that address the ability to monitor or forecast terrestrial weather with the objective of providing improved global weather data and products. SaraniaSat team’s CLOUD6 6U CubeSat fully-integrated solution focusing on Cloud Characterization and Theater Weather Imagery. From a nominal 625km orbit height, CLOUD 6 will acquire an unprecedented 20 bands of visible and long wave infrared (LWIR) imagery using a novel “step and stareâ€Â approach for a nearly 1 second acquisition time for each of the 15 LWIR bands. The high spatial resolution (143m & 228m) combined with high-performance onboard computing using non-linear, weak-signal detection and sensor fusion algorithms will generate a number of cloud properties, moisture and aerosol characterization, ocean and land surface characterization data products with high spatial detail. CLOUD6 will rapidly provide actionable, first- and second-order data and information products to the warfighter on cloud characterization and theater weather imagery, and characterization of moisture and aerosol profiles, ocean and land surfaces. With many bands similar to those currently available from the GOES-16/-17 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), CLOUD6 will produce data products at microscale (battlefield) resolutions to address Air Force application needs.