Landsat 9 observatory management support purpose, objective, and background of work to be performed the landsat 9 L9 mission is the successor mission to landsat data continuity mission ldcm renamed…

This is a delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract, valued at $1,312,433.77, supports the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite mission. The Landsat 9 observatory will continue the Landsat program's 50-year legacy of providing multispectral satellite imagery of the global land surface. The contract covers observatory management support, including instrument development, spacecraft bus fabrication, integration, testing, launch support, and operations. The Landsat 9 mission objective is to extend the ability to detect and quantify changes on the Earth's surface. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.

Landsat 9 observatory management support purpose, objective, and background of work to be performed the landsat 9 L9 mission is the successor mission to landsat data continuity mission ldcm renamed landsat 8 after commissioning in may 2013. Landsat satellites have continuously acquired multispectral images of the global land surface since the launch of landsat 1 in 1972. The landsat data archive constitutes the longest continuous moderate-resolution record of the global land surface as viewed from space. The landsat 9 mission objective is to extend the ability to detect and quantitatively characterize changes on the global land surface at a scale where natural and human-induced causes of change can be detected and differentiated. Once operational, data acquisition, reporting, operations, and archival will be accomplished at the U.S. Geological survey (USGS) earth resources observation systems eros facility in south dakota where the current data is managed. The L9 observatory instrument suite consists of two mature instruments, which are near-copies of the instruments flown on landsat 8. They are the operational land imager OLI and the thermal infrared sensor tirs. These instruments will be designated OLI 2 and tirs 2 for landsat 9, and the tirs 2 instrument will be upgraded to risk class b tirs is class c on landsat 8. The OLI 2 will be built by ball aerospace technology corporation batc of boulder, CO. The tirs 2 is being developed as a gsfc in-house effort. The L9 spacecraft bus will be built by orbital ATK in gilbert, AZ. L9 instrument development activities are well underway, with both instruments past CDR. The L9 spacecraft bus is being built by orbital ATK in gilbert, AZ, under a rapid spacecraft development office-III delivery order awarded in october 2016. Orbital ATK is also responsible for instrument integration, observatory-level testing, launch site support, and operations support. The targeted landsat 9 launch readiness date (LRD) is currently december 2020 the purpose of this task IT to support managing the development of the landsat 9 spacecraft and observatory. 3. Description of work to be performed: 3.1. The contractor shall provide system engineering and technical management support to observatory management activities. This includes: integrated baseline establishment and maintenance, status assessment and reporting of cost, schedule and technical performance identification, assessment, and management of issues and risks, and estimation of project cost/schedule impacts providing project control support, including budget and schedule development, execution and tracking, and project management preparations for internal and external reporting, reviews, and milestone activities providing technical and programmatic oversight/insight into spacecraft/observatory development contractor technical progress and status, schedule, and risks assessing performance of the spacecraft/observatory development contractor including assessment of performance against payment milestone criteria supporting evaluation of change proposal materials related to existing procurements supporting review of spacecraft/observatory contractor deliverable documents and materials planning and preparations for project and observatory life cycle milestone reviews and key decision meetings providing spacecraft/observatory technical and system engineering support including mission concept development, requirements development and management, design solution evaluation and trades analyses, interface management, spacecraft and observatory integration and testing, launch vehicle integration, verification and validation, risk management, technical data and configuration management, technical reviews, requirements compliance, software engineering management, operations readiness/testing, mission assurance, pre- and post-launch calibration, and technical oversight/insight assisting the L9 observatory manager