SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- CARA SOFTWARE TOOLS SATELLITE CONJUCTION ASSESSMENT AND RISK ANALYSIS
- Notice Date
- 5/16/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.M, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- CARASOFTWARETOOLS
- Archive Date
- 6/15/2017
- Point of Contact
- Marissa Herron,
- E-Mail Address
-
cara-government-only@lists.hq.nasa.gov
(cara-government-only@lists.hq.nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA's Conjunction Assessment and Risk Analysis (CARA) provides support to NASA's earth orbiting missions. The mission set includes over 65 missions, some of which are international joint missions. The majority of the missions are located in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), but support is also provided for satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO). The missions have unique needs for consideration in the CARA process, such as location constraints related to their science mission objectives and their location within a constellation. A mission's propulsive maneuverability or non-maneuverability capabilities must also be taken into account. These can include fuel limitations, propulsive performance expectations, as well as the time to react through a low thrust or differential drag capability. NASA is currently using government developed software. This software is used to identify and assess the risk of a given close approach event. Reports are delivered multiple times a day that provide an awareness of what conjunctions may exist. These reports include the time of closest approach, the probability of collision (Pc), the miss distance, conjunction plane plots, Pc and miss distance history, orbit coverage, and other means for evaluating the risk. Software tools are then used to develop a risk mitigation plan for high risk conjunctions. Some of the tools that NASA currently uses include predictions of potential tracking opportunities, assessment of the risk due to atmospheric mis-modeling, visualization tools, ephemerides' conversion tools, the Wald Test, 3D Pc, etc. NASA CARA recognizes that industry's satellite collision avoidance capabilities are growing and desires an awareness of what capabilities exist. NASA CARA is requesting information on what software tools industry has available for satellite conjunction assessment and risk analysis purposes. Responses can include software tools that perform the above-mentioned capabilities as well as additional capabilities. Please send responses and questions to cara-government-only@lists.hq.nasa.gov
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