RELATIVE DYNAMICS INC
Metalens-based near-infrared telescope system with carbon fiber composite athermalized structure for space missions
- Sector
- Aerospace
- Headquarters
- Laurel, MD
- Total capital
- $6.6M
- Federal grants
- $2.1M
- 6 awards · 2021–2025
- Rank in peer group#2 of 91
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $4.5M
- 14 awards · NASA, Defense, Commerce
- Rank in Aerospace#353 of 1335
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractCommerce · The Requirements Defined In The Statement Of Work (sow) Will Assure Noaa Can Perform Interference Monitoring Resulting From Sharing Radio-spectrum Used By Operational Meteorological Satellites Operations, Maintenance, And Software Sustainment Of The$2.1M
- Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
- Federal contractNASA · STTR Phase I High-speed Photonic Integrated Analyzer For Unconditionally Entangled And Noise Squeezed Quantum States$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · STTR Phase I High-speed Photonic Integrated Analyzer For Unconditionally Entangled And Noise Squeezed Quantum States$150K
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I - Balloon Lasercom Terminal$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · SBIR Phase I - Balloon Lasercom Terminal$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Communication Array Transceiver With Coherent Flys-eye Receiver$85K
Show 13 earlier federal awards
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Metalens Near InfraRed Telescope$149K
- Federal contractCommerce · The Purpose Of The Task Order Is To Satisfy The Minimum Guarantee In Accordance With 1352.216-75 Of The Idiq Contract.$250
- Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I To Investigate, Evaluate And Document Multiple Additive Manufacturing Methods To Produce A Nanometer-scale-optical-quality Curved Mirror.$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Relative Dynamics SBIR Phase I Effort$244K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Optical Telescope Pointing Milli-Arcsecond Control System$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Telescope Pointing Milli-arcsecond Control Syst$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Optical Communication Array Transceiver$750K
- Federal contractNASA · EO14042 SBIR Phase II Long-range Optical Telecommunications$835K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Optical Communication Terminal$749K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Communication Array Transceiver$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Ot : Support Engineer For The Lisa Laser Effort : 4200742357$250K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Communications Terminal$123K
- Federal contractNASA · Large Space Optics System Identification$125K
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Standing among 91 peers
Line = medianAerospace · Device
- Federal grants#2 · top 2%
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
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No granted patents are on record.
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Aerospace
- Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA-Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Special Conditions: AMAC Aerospace, The Boeing Company Model 747- 8 Airplane; Side-Facing SeatsFederal Aviation Administration
- Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous AmendmentsFederal Aviation Administration
- Operating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International AirportFederal Aviation Administration
- Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia AirportFederal Aviation Administration
- Special Conditions: Honeywell Aerospace US LLC, Dassault Aviation Model Falcon 900EX Airplane; Electronic System Security Protection From Unauthorized External AccessFederal Aviation Administration
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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