Definitive Contract 80LARC21CA007

This $6,564,200.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Astrobotic Technology Inc. by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to design, prototype, and test a lunar vertical solar array technology (LVSAT) system. The LVSAT system is designed to provide 10 kilowatts of electrical power and be robotically deployable on the lunar surface, particularly at the South Pole, to support NASA's planned lunar landing and base missions beginning in 2024. The contract was awarded under NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Game Changing Development (GCD) program, which focuses on maturing critical technologies between Technology Readiness Levels 3-6. The contract has a base period of up to 12 months for system design and analysis, with an optional 24-month period for prototype hardware build and test. There was no set-aside used for this competitive award.