This is a $81,611,288 cost-reimbursement contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to the University of California, Berkeley for the development and operation of the Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) space-based heliophysics instrument. The contract was issued under the 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity program, an omnibus solicitation for modest space science investigations that advance NASA's heliophysics objectives. The University of...
Astrotech Space Operations, LLC, doing business as Astrotech Space Operations and a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation, has been awarded a $580,633 firm fixed price delivery order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center to provide East Coast commercial payload processing services in support of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hot flow and propellant testing. Place of performance will be in Titusville, Florida. The order was awarded against NASA's...
This federal contract award to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, is for CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATION (CALIPSO) SUSTAINING ENGINEERING PAYLOAD ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES. The $2,079,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center in providing payload engineering services for the CALIPSO satellite mission, which is focused on Earth...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center awarded a $405,150 firm fixed price delivery order to Maxar Space LLC to provide post-gateway launch flight operations support. The contract will be performed in Palo Alto, California over a three-month period concluding in May 2021. As a division of Maxar Space LLC, the prime contractor will support NASA's ongoing efforts to enable safe and reliable access to low-Earth orbit and beyond through its Gateway program. No...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a component of the Department of Commerce, to Astrotech Space Operations, LLC, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for payload processing services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) mission. The contract has a potential value of $4,305,688.00 and was awarded on May 1, 2017, with a completion date of March 10, 2018. Astrotech Space...
This federal contract award, valued at $42,426,645.00, was issued by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to prime contractor General Atomics for the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) ARGOS Mission. The contract is a delivery order under the HoPS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. The work will be performed in San Diego, California and does not have a set-aside designation. Major subcontractors include NTS Technical Systems, LLC, Surrey Satellite...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AK45G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the agency) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is for the development of a dual-channel photometer called COMPASS, which leverages prior technology developments in areas such as thin film reflective coatings, compact electronics packaging, and heritage photometric detectors. The $519,341.73 contract...
This is a $2,488,397.00 firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) to Planet Labs Inc., doing business as Cosmogia. The contract is for Task 2 of the "OTHER FUNCTIONS" program, specifically an "EXTENDED COASTAL IMAGERY DEMO". The contract is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside and has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2017. Planet Labs, a leading provider of global satellite imagery and...
This is a $3,061,672.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the Jet Propulsion Lab, a civilian agency under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the prime contractor. The order is for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission operations phase E, which extends the mission to monitor changes in Earth's gravity field and provide data supporting climate research. The order was awarded on October...
This federal contract award, valued at $3,265,567.00, was issued by NASA's Goddard Space Center to the University of Illinois for the development of the Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) instrument. GLIDE is intended to reveal the global dynamics of the Earth's exosphere using Lyman-alpha imagers on a spacecraft. The prime contractor, the University of Illinois, has subcontracted work to Computational Physics, Inc., Trustees of Boston University, and the University of...