This is a $11,239,704.14 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by NASA Headquarters to Nanoracks, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct a feasibility study on repurposing rocket upper stages as habitats for the International Space Station (ISS) and long-duration deep space exploration. The study aims to develop an evolvable, modular architecture and mature the design of an integrated deep space habitation system that could potentially be co-manifested as a payload on...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order contract to Bigelow Space One LLC, a for-profit organization, for the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) project. The contract has a potential value of $150,000.00 and a completion date of November 12, 2020. The BEAM project involves the delivery of the specified product, with the place of performance located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. This contract does not have a...
This federal contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation, is part of the NEXTSTEP-2 program to develop and refine Gateway habitation concepts, leading to the design, development, test, and evaluation (DDT&E) and delivery of a U.S. habitation module to NASA. The $48,581,124.84 firm-fixed-price contract has an ultimate completion date of December 5, 2025. It is not a set-aside award. As a major defense and aerospace contractor,...
This federal contract award from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is to Sierra Space Corp for the NEXTSTEP-2 study to evaluate mission architecture, system interfaces, and subsystem component design for future habitation systems in cislunar space. The contract, valued at nearly $26 million, focuses on developing a full-size ground prototype unit for initial habitation capabilities with extensibility for in-space transit. It will also establish plans and cost estimates for further...
This is a $1,950,180.80 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Lockheed Martin Corporation for the NextSTEP Broad Agency Agreement (BAA). The work involves the design, integration, and test of NASA strategic knowledge gap-focused payloads and products for the Skyfire CubeSat, which will launch on the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) of the Space Launch System (SLS). The contract also covers mission operations and data delivery specific to strategic knowledge gap objectives following the...
<p>This is a firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to MDA Systems Inc. for "NEXTSTEP2 APPENDIX R: LUNAR LOGISTICS AND MOBILITY STUDIES." The contract has a ceiling value of $360,000.00 and a period of performance ending on April 29, 2026. This contract is not set aside for any specific business type. The work will be performed in Houston, TX.</p>
This is a $1,936,515,111.00 definitive contract awarded by NASA's Johnson Space Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a major aerospace and defense contractor. The contract is part of the NEXTSTEP NRA (Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships) program, which aims to evolve existing systems like the Cygnus spacecraft to support more distant space destinations. The contract has a performance period through May 31, 2029 and involves defining an Exploration Augmentation...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc., a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies Corporation. The contract is for a one-year base effort with potential follow-on phases, with a ceiling value of $14,275,780.00. The contract supports NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NEXTSTEP) program and seeks concepts and technology investigations for an initial habitation capability in cislunar space, with potential...
This contract was awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to The Boeing Company to develop a simple, low-cost Exploration Augmentation Module (EAM) that can be used to test various technologies and evolve into a long-duration crew support system for Cislunar and Mars exploration. The $31,769,599 firm-fixed-price contract is part of NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program, which aims to stimulate the commercial space industry and leverage commercial...
This is a firm-fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a leading global security and aerospace company. The contract, valued at $979,976.00, is for a study on the commercialization of low Earth orbit (LEO). It is not set aside for any specific business type. The contract was awarded in response to a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) seeking industry input on enabling the commercialization of...