This is a federal contract awarded by NASA Ames Research Center to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to perform the Phase A definition effort for the ARCUS X-ray grating spectroscopy explorer mission. The $25,707,536.72 contract will fund detailed mission planning, risk assessment, and preparation of a Concept Study Report to be submitted to the Explorers Program Office. Key subcontractors include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pennsylvania State University...
This is a $181,743 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to Orbital Sciences LLC, a for-profit manufacturer of aerospace, defense, and space systems products and services. The contract supports the PRAXYS (Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-Ray Sources) proposal, which involves conducting scientific investigations and developing instruments to study polarized X-ray emissions from celestial bodies like neutron star-black hole binary systems and star...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Orbital Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract, valued at $249,997.00, is for Orbital Sciences to provide resources and skills to perform and manage tasks related to the FOXSI ground station and spacecraft systems design as part of the FOXSI Phase A Concept Definition under the 2016 Small Explorer Announcement of Opportunity #NNH16ZDA005O....
This is a $48,207,104.68 cost-plus-award-fee contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Asrc Aerospace Corp, an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. The contract is for engineering design and fabrication services to support the Project Management and Engineering Directorate at NASA Ames. It is an 8(a) sole source set-aside contract with an ultimate completion date of September 10, 2013. Asrc...
This federal contract award is for the procurement of Ordinance Arming Relay Assembly (OARA), 1073-4407-001 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract was awarded to Orbital Sciences LLC, a division of Northrop Grumman Corporation, under a firm fixed-price purchase order with a potential value of $107,500.00. The contract has a completion date of August 12, 2019. Orbital Sciences LLC is a provider of launch vehicles, targets and decoys,...
This federal contract award is for the Advanced X-Ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Phase A study, a civilian space program managed by the Goddard Space Center. The $745,840 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of the defense and aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026 and was awarded on February 4, 2025 with no set-aside designation, indicating open competition....
This is a $8,201,270.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Orbital Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems LLC. The contract supports the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), which is responsible for developing crosscutting, pioneering new technologies and capabilities needed by the agency to achieve its current and future missions. The contract has an...
This federal contract award to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a division of the Smithsonian Institution, is focused on developing alignment techniques for x-ray gratings to achieve Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 for an x-ray spectrometer system. The objective is to establish a stable optical channel flight design and alignment procedures, assembling the system with surrogate and prototype optics, and subjecting it to environmental testing to validate performance. This $150,002.11...
This federal contract award, valued at $29,366.59, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The contract supports a 45 kilosecond NuSTAR observation and 40 kilosecond XMM-Newton observation of the radio-loud active galactic nucleus 3C 223. The objective is to search for absorption variability...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18K0094, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (ASTRA), doing business as Orion Space Solutions, a small business. The $1,937,235.05 grant is for a CubeSat mission to study the underlying causes and evolution of ionospheric plasma structures, which is relevant to the NASA Heliophysics Roadmap. The mission will utilize a 6U CubeSat platform with sensors to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center awarded a Definitive, Firm Fixed Price contract to Orbital Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, for support of the ARCUS X-ray grating spectroscopy explorer mission. The contract, valued at $550,037.00, covers the integration and environmental testing of the ARCUS observatory, which consists of an X-ray telescope provided by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and a spacecraft provided by Orbital Sciences. The ARCUS mission is managed by NASA Ames Research Center, with the Principal Investigator located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. This contract does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion on June 30, 2019.