INTERSTEL TECHNOLOGIES SELECTED FOR NASA STTR PHASE I CONTRACT

Honolulu, HI (June, 2020) - NASA announced the 57 small business company (SBC) – non-profit research institution (RI) teams that were selected to negotiate a contract with NASA for Phase I of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR). Interstel Technologies was the only SBC selected from Hawaii. Interstel™’s RI partner is the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). This was Interstel™’s first time to apply for a STTR award. The title of the winning proposal was “Cooperative Control and Localization of Multiple Spacecraft using a Multi-Agent Mission Operations System”. The Principal Investigator (PI) is Dr. Trevor C. Sorensen (CEO of Interstel Technologies, Inc.) and the RI-PI is Dr. Zhuoyuan Song (Department of Mechanical Engineering). The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was the NASA center overseeing the program and technical aspects of the contract.