VCLS Demo 2 - DRFP Questions and Responses.pdf

This document provides details on a pre-solicitation notice for the Venture Class Launch Service Demo 2 opportunity. NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Service Program seeks to award multiple contracts to demonstrate a launch capability by June 2022 through one of two mission options. Mission One involves a dedicated CubeSat launch delivering a 30 kg payload to a 500 km orbit between 40-60 degrees of inclination. Mission Two provides launch services for two CubeSat constellations, with a 75 kg payload to a 550 km Sun-Synchronous orbit under Constellation A and a second 20 kg payload under Constellation B to the same orbit but with a minimum 10 degree plane change. The anticipated release of the draft RFP is within two weeks, and an industry day will be held virtually on July 7, 2020 to discuss the requirement. Responses to this pre-solicitation notice are voluntary and will not constitute a commitment or solicitation by the government. This is expected to be a small business set-aside with a size standard of 1,500 employees under NAICS code 481212.