SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- PLANETARY ENTRY DESCENT AND LANDING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS
- Notice Date
- 1/10/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ14ZBH012L
- Response Due
- 4/11/2014
- Archive Date
- 1/10/2015
- Point of Contact
- Mark A. Dillard, Lead Partnership Development Office Integration, Phone 281-244-8460, Fax 281-483-4146, Email mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov - Dana Altmon-Cary, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-8228, Fax 281-483-4066, Email dana.altmon-cary-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Mark A. Dillard
(mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) is seeking parties interested in collaborative development and mature technologies required for NASAs future missions and to enhance life on Earth. JSC is looking to partner on the development of broadly applicable technologies as a means to accelerate technology development and strengthen commercialization of federally-funded research and development. Purpose: NASA JSC seeks parties interested in co-developing technology associated with planetary entry, descent, and landing (EDL) system architectures applicable or extensible to human Mars missions. Advancing these technologies will be of benefit to any entity that desires an entry, descent and landing capability. Technology: The technologies sought could be applicable to any facet of the EDL scenario, such as aero capture, atmospheric entry, supersonic/subsonic deceleration, or terminal landing. The technologies should contribute to enabling a high mass planetary landing mission by providing attributes of low mass, constrained volume for launch vehicle compatibility, reduced entry heating, low sensitivity to dispersions and system failures, and/or pinpoint landing. Evidence of the applicability and benefit to an overall feasible architecture for EDL is required. Viable methodologies for test and validation of the technology should be considered. Comparative evaluations with current or alternate EDL architecture concepts for effectiveness in reducing mission risks are also desirable. R&D Status: The current planetary EDL systems for robotic exploration missions typically involve a system of rigid circular aero shell entry vehicles, parachutes, propulsive deceleration, and/or airbags. However, these systems lose effectiveness or feasibility when scaled to the size required for human missions or extremely large payloads. As an example, the Mars Science Laboratory successfully placed approximately 1 metric ton of payload on the surface of Mars, whereas a human Mars mission would likely require a landed payload mass of 40 metric tons or possibly greater. Intellectual Property (IP): Automated, Real-Time Targeting and Guidance (ARTGUID) Software for Lunar-Descent and Precision Landing Autonomous Precision Landing Navigation (APLNav) System Orion Guidance, Navigation, and Control Flight Software Detailed information for the above mentioned technologies furnished upon request. This co-development project may produce new IP that could be jointly owned by NASA and the partner or may become the property of the partner. This announcement is not to be construed as a Request for Proposal and is not a commitment by the government, nor will the government pay for any information provided. Since this is an Announcement, no evaluation letters or results will be issued to the respondents. Please submit the attached Statement of Interest Form to Mark Dillard To view all Co-Development and Partnering Opportunities with the NASA Johnson Space Center please visit our website http://1.usa.gov/1bL99AF
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