NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771

99 -- COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT FOR SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS POC Thomas S. Russell, Contracting Officer, 301-286-2885. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is engaged in a re-engineering study to determine the feasibility of using commercial spacecraft for scientific missions to decrease both the acquisition and development lead-times. The purpose of this notice is to gather information from industry related to the commercial availability and development of low cost, derivative satellites which may be applicable to future NASA missions. GSFC is considering the technical feasibility, cost, and schedule implications for using existing designs, or modifying existing or planned, commercial spacecraft. GSFC welcomes any information submitted by interested parties in response to this request. Specifically, please respond to the following: 1. What are the existing capabilities of your commercial spacecraft? (Include payload mass supportable and ELVS designed for). Other capabilities such as the following, as applicable, would be helpful: total power/power available to payload; total memory/memory available to payload; total downlink rate/DLR available to P/L @ min/max orbit altitudes; uplink command storage; point/hold capability; consumable life time; range of operating orbit apogee/perigee inclination; radiation tolerance; total dose/SEU immunity design life/MTBF 2. What missions and applications have your spacecraft supported? 3. What is the price of your spacecraft? 4. Can NASA modify your standard bus? At what point(s) in the production line could we do so? Provide any associated price impact. 5. What data rights can the Government obtain? 6. How many spacecraft have you sold, over what time period, and to whom (including government agencies)? 7. How many spacecraft do you build annually? 8. What is the maximum number of spacecraft you could build annually? 9. How many of your commercial spacecraft have been launched? How many are operating successfully? 10. Identify a point of technical contact including: name, position, telephone number, address, and e-mail address. 11. Provide a copy of your standard commercial spacecraft contract terms and conditions. 12. Provide a schedule showing lead-time data from receipt of order to delivery of the spacecraft broken down by discrete events within your production line. 13. Provide information on any inventory of buses or modules you maintain that are available for immediate delivery. 14.Provide implementation concepts, or any insights you wish to offer that might allow NASA to initiate funding instrument(s) for rapid acquisition, delivery, and modification of a commercial spacecraft for scientific use. For further information, please contact Mr. Tom Russell (301)286-2885 or e-mail (Thomas.S.Russell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov). Please submit the requested information by October 7, 1996. Information submitted separate and apart from commercial brochures will be treated as proposal data pursuant to the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) 18-52.215-72 (DEC 1984). GSFC looks forward to industry's participation in our re-engineering effort and will acknowledge receipt of any information submitted. The purpose of this effort is to survey industry's capabilities as the first step in a process re-engineering effort. It is not a request for proposal and should not be construed as a commitment by the Government. Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/web/solicita. (0250)

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