MODIFICATION
A -- ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION UMBRELLA FOR PARTNERSHIPS (ARM-UP) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Synopsis
- Notice Date
- 9/22/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNH16ZCQ002K
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Michele Gates, Phone: 202-358-1048
- E-Mail Address
-
hq-armup-baa@mail.nasa.gov
(hq-armup-baa@mail.nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the Asteroid Redirect Mission Umbrella for Partnerships (ARM-UP) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on September 6, 2016. The ARM is part of NASA's plan to advance the technologies, capabilities, and spaceflight experience needed for continuing human exploration. Although ARM is primarily a capability demonstration mission, there exist significant opportunities to advance our knowledge of small bodies in the synergistic areas of science, planetary defense, asteroidal resources utilization, and other technology demonstrations. ARM is comprised of two mission segments: a robotic segment, or Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM), and a crewed segment, or Asteroid Redirect Crewed Mission (ARCM). Current plans are for the ARRM to be launched in late 2021 with the ARCM conducted using an Orion capsule launched on a Space Launch System vehicle in 2026. ARRM will survey and characterize the asteroid surface, identify and select an appropriate asteroid boulder, capture the boulder, ascend with the boulder secured, conduct a slow push planetary defense demonstration and return with the boulder to lunar orbit, support safe crew operations with the ARCM, and leave the asteroid in a stable lunar orbit. The reference target asteroid for ARM is 2008 EV5. ARCM operations are expected in 2026 during which astronauts arriving on an Orion spacecraft will select, extract, contain and return to Earth samples from the primordial multi-ton mass for future study. These samples will contain far more asteroid material than has ever been returned by a space mission, which could open new scientific discoveries about the formation of our solar system, the origin of life on Earth, and help determine the potential for use of asteroid resources. ARM is managed within the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) in partnership with the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and Science Mission Directorate (SMD). NASA intends to seek proposals in research areas to include, but not limited to: partner-provided investigations through systems/payloads to be hosted on the ARRM; collaboration through an Investigation Team to support definition of additional mission investigations; studies to define mission partnership opportunities toward NASA's planned crewed mission to the multi-ton asteroid boulder; and opportunities for access and experimentation at the asteroid boulder after the crewed mission. The ARM-UP umbrella BAA will remain open until August 2018, with additional opportunities announced as appendices with their own applicable requirements and milestones. The intent is that awards resulting from this BAA will enable partnerships within the U.S. and internationally for enabling broader benefits from ARM. This BAA anticipates that capabilities and technologies developed through these partnerships will also provide significant commercial, scientific, exploration technology/capability and/or planetary defense applications beyond ARM. The umbrella BAA is available at: http://go.nasa.gov/2bVnWC2. The first two Appendices were released simultaneously with the umbrella BAA and are available on the BAA Web page. The duration of awards will vary depending upon the complexity of the studies or development effort. NASA hosted a virtual industry forum Sept. 14, 2016, to provide more information about the BAA. Details on the forum are available at: www.nasa.gov/feature/asteroid-redirect-mission-virtual-industry-day. Submission information, participant eligibility, additional topic information and specific evaluation criteria for the solicitation will be identified in the BAA and Appendices.
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