This is a delivery order under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) indefinite delivery contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intuitive Machines, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract has a ceiling value of $86,520,100.00 and a period of performance through June 30, 2026. Under this delivery order, Intuitive Machines will provide payloads and conduct research investigations on the surface of the Moon. This leverages...
This contract award is for the Polar Resource Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) lunar surface payload delivery task order under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. The $62,522,606 firm-fixed-price delivery order was awarded to Intuitive Machines, LLC, a leading space exploration company, by NASA's Johnson Space Center. Intuitive Machines will transport science payloads and research investigations to the lunar South Pole under this task order, which has an ultimate completion...
Luna Innovations Incorporated was awarded a $125,000.00 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop an optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) system-on-chip using heterogeneous silicon photonics. This lightweight, rugged, and miniature system is intended to enable OFDR-based structural health monitoring (SHM) sensing applications in space, where size and weight constraints are critical. The innovation...
This is a firm fixed price delivery order awarded to Drivendata, Inc. under the $175 million NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The $100,000 task order is for Drivendata to provide AI assistants for NASA through a crowdsourcing challenge. The work will be performed in Denver, Colorado and has an ultimate completion date of December 20, 2023. This is a competitive award with no set-aside designation. Drivendata is a for-profit organization...
This is a $40,595,337 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Langley Research Center to Intuitive Machines, LLC, a Houston-based space exploration company. The contract is for the development and demonstration of a small robotic hopper that can provide access to extreme lunar surface environments and locations of interest as a secondary payload from the Nova-C lander. This contract falls under the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate's (STMD) Game Changing Technologies and...
This is a $33,760,094.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) for the Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII). The contract does not have a set-aside designation. APL, a university-affiliated research center, will provide engineering, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, and other research and development services under this contract to advance...
This is a delivery order awarded under the Aerospace Research, Development and Engineering Support (ARDES) II contract held by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center. The $836,115.00 task order is for a Lunar 3rd Generation Partnership Project / Fifth Generation (3GPP/5G) Pre-Phase A Study, which supports research and development efforts related to lunar communications and 5G technology. The work is being...
The U.S. Johnson Space Center has awarded a $1,145,029.45 firm-fixed-price delivery order contract to Lunar Outpost Inc., a small business specializing in autonomous robotic systems and advanced space technologies. This contract, which is part of the larger Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) with a $4.6 billion ceiling, is for the pre-priced evaluation of NASA mission requirements assessment. The contract has a performance period through...
Astrobotic Technology Inc., doing business as Astrobotic, has been awarded a $49,999.99 firm fixed price delivery order against the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) master contract to conduct an Enhanced Landing and Mobility Study for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center. Performance will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a completion date of June 19, 2019. No set-aside designation was...
This is a firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded to Crowdplat, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, under the NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center. The $85,000 delivery order, titled "IMPROVING LUNAR MAP RESOLUTION," is for crowdsourcing services to support NASA's lunar mapping research and development efforts. The NOIS2 IDIQ, a...