Raleigh, North Carolina [September 28, 2023] – Anumá Aerospace Corporation, the leading
pioneer in partial-vacuum lift (PVL) technology, announced today that it has been awarded a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant to develop a persistently-elevated, gas-free, aerostatic sensor utility system (PEGASUS). Anumá’s technology supports NOAA’s focus on mitigating extreme events and cascading hazards with a solution for broadening the capture and availability of critical weather data.
“NOAA has identified the need for more actionable weather data to help mitigate extreme weather events and hazards,” said Diana Little, Co-Founder and CEO of Anumá Aerospace. “Anumá’s technology is intended to remain aloft indefinitely with an autonomous control system that navigates winds and air currents to remain within predefined geofence boundaries. This solution allows the capture of critically needed data not previously possible with other systems.”
PEGASUS will work like a data buoy in the sky, continuously collecting and transmitting weather data from the marine atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), making the data available to weather data consumers via a cloud-based application programming interface (API). PEGASUS will be built on Anumá Aerospace’s patented partial-vacuum lift (PVL) cell technology as the aerostatic lift component with onboard photovoltaic equipment and batteries to provide power to onboard systems, including weather data sensors, communications equipment, buoyancy control, and an autonomous control system.
NOAA’s SBIR program is a highly competitive, merit-based grant program that encourages small businesses in the U.S. to engage in research and development (R&D) to advance innovative and commercially viable products or services.
For more information, please fill out the contact form on our website, or get in touch with our media contact, Brittany Kearns.
Contact Information:
Name: Brittany Kearns
Phone: (572) 271-7211
Email: [email protected]
