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NASA Center Capabilities Ames Research Center

Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

Name: Sally Cahill

Title: Ames HLS POC

Email: sally.a.cahill@nasa.gov

Secondary POC

Name: David Mauro

Title: Ames HLS POC alt.

Email: david.mauro@nasa.gov

Ames for Artemis Phase 1: Lunar Surface by 2024

List of some Enabling Capabilities

2019-24 LunarCOTS concepts

Lunar science enabled by

SSERVI

HLS Engineering

Risk Assessment 2024 VMS

Training & Flt

Control Dev for

Lunar Lander

Ultra Hi-Fi

Lunar Lander

Surface

Simulator

• Orion Launch Abort

Simulations

• SLS & Orion Wind

Tunnel Tests and aero-database generation

• Cross Program

Data Systems

Entry Tech & Arcjet Test

Gateway CubeSat Grand

Challenges Autonomy for Artemis Program

(Gateway & HLS) - SW V&V, Caution & Warning, AI Ops

Human-

System

Integration for Artemis

Program

2022 VIPER Prospecting Rover Mission (SMD)2019-24 CLPS Instruments (SMD)

Ames Research Center Human Landing System Capabilities

The VMS is a safe and cost-effective environment for:

HLS Development

• Rapid implementation and evaluation of candidate HLS designs

• Flight control, guidance, displays, and procedure development for HLS manual control per requirements for Crewed Space Systems (NASA HEOMD-003)

• Design and evaluation of potential in-flight crew training vehicles

HLS Testing and Certification

• Develop certification packages for human-in-the-loop usability as required by NASA HEOMD-003

• May be offered as GFE to industry partners for operational testing, evaluation, and certification

HLS Training and On-going Development

• The VMS is the most operationally realistic ground-based crew training platform available today

• Allows rapid exposure and training capability for a wide range of nominal and off-nominal situations

• May be used for continuous HLS development and crew training as in the Space Shuttle program3

• Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) for HLS Development, Testing, Certification, and

Training

Flight simulator with large-amplitude, independent six degree-of-freedom motion capability that is uniquely suited to realistically recreating the flight dynamics of HLS. (https://aviationsystems.arc.nasa.gov/facilities/vms/index.shtml)

Intelligent Systems Division (https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/)

Automation and Autonomy:

• Autonomous operations to reduce flight controller and crew workload during crewed missions, and to reduce flight controller workload during dormant periods

• Advanced Planning & Scheduling technologies

• ISS flight-proven technologies (Autonomous Mission Operations, Playbook, etc.)

• In-Vehicle Robotics (IVR) for crew assist and uninhabited operations

Software Verification and Validation Tools:

• Statistical testing to identify safe region of operations for autonomous systems

• Adaptive stress testing, turning AI on AI to find corner cases in testing

• V&V results integrated into comprehensive semi-automated assurance cases for certification

Systems Health Management:

• Real-time monitoring with diagnostics & prognostics

• Caution and warning and fault response during crewed missions

• Situational awareness and responsive during dormant periods

• Resilience and physics-based modeling

• Human Factors

• Human Systems Integration Architecture

• For increasingly Earth-independent contingency management

• Vibration assessment impact on human visuo-motor performance

• 3-axis of motion vibration chair mounted on human-rated centrifuge

• Wearable bio-sensors

• Wireless assessment of full-range of psychophysiological metrics

• Formal training and teaming (crew resource management)

• Just-in-time-training methods/technologies and crew resource management

• Integrated Mission Information Systems (also known as Cross Program Data Systems)

• Low-cost, highly adaptable/expandable integrated information systems architecture for managing engineering and safety data across the mission life-cycle

• Engineering Risk Assessment (ERA) (https://www.nas.nasa.gov/projects/era.html)

ERA extends traditional probabilistic risk assessment techniques through the explicit inclusion of physics-of-failure and dynamic system modeling. The result is a set of rapid turn around tools/models which provide quantitative, risk metrics for uses such as:

• Ensuring crew safety though awareness of risk implications of Risk-informed decision making for investment choices

• design decisions throughout the project lifecycle

• Risk-informed decision making for investment choices

• Requirement scoping, validation, and verification5

Human Systems Integration Division (https://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/)

ERA Tools are currently used throughout the life cycle of NASA spaceflight projects.

• Advanced Material Development & Arc Jet Testing for HLS

• The Ames Entry Systems & Technology Division is a leader in high temperature materials engineering. (https://go.usa.gov/xtA3r)

• Thermal Protection Materials Branch design & analysis capabilities (https://go.usa.gov/xtA3U)

• High temperature ceramic materials development and characterization, e.g., nozzle throats

• Advanced conformal, high-strength composites for thermal protection

• In-situ instrumentation of complex composites for accurate health monitoring (thermal, aerodynamic, etc.)

• Thermophysics Facilities Branch test capabilities (https://go.usa.gov/xtA3d)

• Interaction Heating Facility (IHF) 60MW arc jet for high heat flux, long duration (> 1hr) testing of large models

• Panel Test Facility (PTF) provides test capability for acreage heating on panels up to 16”x16” and angles of -5°to 8°

• Aerothermodynamics Branch analysis capabilities (https://go.usa.gov/xtA37)

• Convective and radiative heat transfer estimation for hypersonic flow environments

• Simulation and interpretation of arc jet test environments

• Free flight aerodynamic stability characterization via simulation and experiment

NASA Center Capabilities Armstrong Flight Research Center

Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

John W. Kelly

Space Projects and Partnerships Deputy Branch Chief

John.w.kelly@nasa.gov

Secondary POC

Jennifer Cole

Programs and Projects Deputy Director

Jennifer.h.cole@nasa.gov

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What Does Armstrong Really Do?

• Armstrong has facilities and requisite expertise to conceive, design, analyze, fabricate, integrate, maintain, and conduct disciplinary research, flight research, and flight test on modified or unique research vehicles and systems

• Armstrong’s strength is in integration of developmental systems – integration of systems into a vehicle (fundamental aero type work) or of vehicles into a system (unmanned aircraft system [UAS] in the National Airspace System [NAS])

- Combination of engineering, operations, and safety skills inherent in workforce and flexible/lean processes to manage risk down to an acceptable level

• While majority of work is aircraft-based, the same skills are also applied to non-aircraft work (vehicle integrated propulsion research, ground test, Orion Pad Abort [PA]-1 integration, Orion Ascent Abort [AA]-2 developmental flight instrumentation (DFI) development and integration, X-43, lifting bodies, Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, etc.)

• Technical staff is experienced with various aircraft types, flight regimes, systems – not restricted to a certain class of aircraft

- Same people to work subsonic, supersonic, hypersonic systems

Capabilities and Core Competencies

Engineering Research

• Airframe/power-plant maintenance, avionics technicians, experimental modification/fabrication, flight systems qualification, experimental test pilots, test operations planning

• Systems engineering and integration (SE&I), aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, flight controls, subsystems, instrumentation

Facility Capability

• Experimental and testbed aircraft

• Unmanned aircraft systems

• Earth science and infrared astronomy platforms

• Real-time engineering simulation

Range and Test Facilities

• Dryden Aeronautical Test Range (DATR)

• Research Aircraft Integration Facility (RAIF)

• Flight Loads Laboratory (FLL)

• Building 703 SOFIA/Airborne Science Operations

Atmospheric Flight Research

• Partnership, program/project development

• Mission, research, flight test objectives development

• Airworthiness certification, ground/flight/range safety

• Technology, systems development/integration/test

• Mission control, range operations

Facility Capability

Support Aircraft and Maintenance Organization (SAMO)

Support aeronautics research and science missions; provide versatile aircraft to meet requirements for pilot proficiency, safety chase, photography, video, and research flights in dual-capacity roles

Dryden Aeronautical Test Range (DATR) Capabilities

Safely monitor and control aeronautics research and science flight activities; provide real-time acquisition and reduction of flight research telemetry and radar data, video tracking, and effective voice communications to flight and ground crews (includes

ISS/Soyuz VHF support)

Simulation Laboratory

Test simulation-supported software and hardware to develop, integrate, and validate highly complex aeronautics research aircraft and low Earth orbit vehicles

Flight Loads Laboratory (FLL)

Provide high temperature and structural testing – mechanical, thermal, structural dynamic, mass properties – of large-scale structures to simulate subsonic through hypersonic flight conditions

AFRC Program and Project Space Activities

Flight Opportunities Program (FOP)

FOP is a Flight Service Provider for testing NASA lunar technologies that require relevant-environment testing

• STMD-Chartered program managed at AFRC

• Match promising space technologies to commercial flight platforms contracted through FOP

• Can expand this service offering through on-ramp of commercial flight providers

Lunar-Lander Trainer Study

• AFRC tasked in May 2008 to evaluate concepts for

Free-Flying Lunar Lander Training Vehicles (LLTVs)

• Report delivered on 16 Oct 2008; study results included:

– Training objectives and preliminary vehicle requirements

– Scoring criteria against which to grade LLTV concepts

– Peer-reviewed by 4 Apollo moonwalkers, 2 Shuttle commanders

– Consensus of study was that a free-flying trainer is required

Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS)

• Support STMD/TDM Cryo-Fluid Management Portfolio

Project - FOSS-based instrumentation for temperature and liquid level sensing; applies to ISRU Liquefaction effort

• FOSS will fly on Atlas V to measure temperatures on Low-

Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID), and strain and temperature on subsequent EDL missions

• AFRC/JPL activity to explore tactile sensor for rover wheel

Testing Lunar and Mars Approach and Landing Sensors at NASA Armstrong

NASA Armstrong F-18 Testing

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Landing Radar

Flight Opportunities Program

Masten Xombie Testing

Vision Landing System (VLS) for Perseverance Mars Rover

Test of Autonomous Landing and

Hazard Avoidance Technology

(ALHAT) LIDAR

Opportunities for Testing on Flight Opportunities

Program Flight Providers

Masten Rocket

VTVL Vehicles

NASA National Campaign

Tests of Urban Air Mobility

Simulated Instrument Flight

Rule Approach and Landings

World View and

Raven Balloons

(100K ft Altitude

Capability)

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UP Aerospace

Sounding

Rocket

NASA Center Capabilities John H. Glenn Research Center

Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

Paul F. Senick

Code MSX/Exploration Systems Office paul.f.senick@nasa.gov

Secondary POC

Josh Freeh

Code MS/Exploration Systems joshua.e.freeh@nasa.gov

Power Systems: Production, Distribution, & Management

– Energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells, solar, nuclear)

– Advanced modular power management and distribution systems

– Power system analysis & modeling

Space Propulsion & Cryogenic Fluids Management

• Acquisition and transfer of fluids under reduced gravity

• Active and passive cryogenic thermal control

• Propellant liquefaction In-Situ Resource Utilization: “Living off the Land”

• Excavation and

Surface Technologies: Landers, Rovers, and Habitats

– Development of high traction innovative wheels for rovers

– Dust tolerant seals & mechanisms

– Materials & structures development for extreme environments

Advanced Communications &

Intelligent Systems

– Autonomous & cognitive communication systems and intelligent controls

– Sensors for extreme environments

Payload Operations

2024 and Beyond: Glenn Lunar Technology

Zero Gravity

Research

Facility

Stirling

Research

Lab

Glenn Research Center Facilities:

Simulated

Lunar Operations

(SLOPE) Lab

World-class facilities to verify cutting-edge technologies in the areas of aeronautics and space exploration.

Cleveland, Ohio Lewis Field contains more than 150 buildings supporting work across 6 core competencies

Propulsion and Power

Labs https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/ https://www.nasa.gov/glennvirtualtours

Creek Road

Cryogenic

Complex

ISRU

Lunar

Regolith

Testbed https://www.nasa.gov/specials/slope360/ https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/ https://www.nasa.gov/glennvirtualtours

Most Powerful

Reverberant

Acoustic Test

Facility (RATF)

Highest capacity

Mechanical

Vibration Facility

(MVF)

Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility (Plum Brook):

Largest space simulation vacuum chamber

Delivering one-of-a-kind environmental testing capability in Sandusky, Ohio

Space Environments

Complex The World’s Largest Space

Environmental Simulation

Chamber https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/spf/

Upper-stage

In-Space

Propulsion

Facility (ISP) https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/isp/ 8 https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/spf/

Glenn Research Center - Power Systems

NASA Glenn is ushering in the next generation of technologies for power generation, energy conversion and storage and power systems by studying and developing solar power generation, batteries, fuel cells, and modular power management and distribution architectures. NASA Glenn engineers have extensive expertise in the integration of each of the respective technologies into end-to-end systems, and have the facilities required for the testing, verification, and validation of those end-to-end systems

Core expertise includes solar power generation, batteries, fuel cells, regenerative fuel cells, thermal energy conversion for radioisotopes and fission reactors, power electronics and power management and distribution.

• Extensive capabilities in power system analysis and modeling

• Development of power generation capabilities include the development of solar cells, solar arrays, primary fuel cells, radioisotope power systems, fission power systems, and associated thermal systems.

• Development of energy storage capabilities consist of research and development for batteries and regenerative fuel cells.

• Development of electric power distribution capabilities include the regulation of power generation and storage systems; the delivering of both low- and high-voltage generated power to users; the developing of modular power architectures for crew-tended systems; the providing of conditioned power to a wide variety of loads; and the automatic controls to facilitate the management of power systems.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-power-energy-storage-and-conversion https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/research-and-engineering/thermal-energy-conversion/rps-program/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-power-energy-storage-and-conversion

Glenn Research Center – Space Propulsion & Cryogenic Fluids Management

NASA Glenn provides innovations in propellant management and chemical, electric and nuclear propulsion technology that are a critical part of the Agency’s mission to take astronauts into deep space. NASA Glenn provides the expertise needed for research, conceptual design, analysis, technology development, ground testing, and flight system development for space propulsion applications.

Core expertise includes propellants, chemical propulsion, solar electric propulsion; nuclear propulsion, cryogenic fluids management (handling, characterization, storage, delivery, demonstration and flight packages); and development of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) technologies and capabilities.

• NASA’s lead for electric propulsion and power, NASA Glenn leads the development of electric propulsion from early-phase research through flight systems development and technology transfer to enable commercialization.

• Expertise in cryogenic, liquid and gaseous propellants - including LOX/LCH4, LOX/LH2, LOX/RP-1, NTO/MMH and green propellant engines

• NASA co-lead for Cryogenic Fluid Management with expertise in the analytical modeling, design, development and testing of cryogenic components, sub-systems and their integration into aerospace systems; experience in the area of liquefaction, densified and gelled cryogenic propellants.

• Co-leads in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for the Agency to enable future prospecting and harnessing natural resources found in space, specifically technology development for resource acquisition including oxygen from lunar regolith, excavation, and water from permanently shadowed craters as examples https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-space-propulsion-and-cryogenic-fluids-management https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-space-propulsion-and-cryogenic-fluids-management

Glenn Research Center – Materials & Structures for Extreme Environments

NASA Glenn Materials and Structures Technologies provide game changing solutions that enable the development of reliable, long-life aerospace systems subjected to extreme environments encountered in propulsion and power, planetary entry, planetary surface operations, and deep space operations.

Core expertise includes materials modeling, discovery and development; novel space mechanisms; tribology;

structures design, dynamics and shock modeling; environmental coatings; environmental and thermal barrier seals;

terramechanics; environmental testing

• Development of novel Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) spring tire for planetary surface mobility that enables faster rover speeds as well as superior traction capabilities

Reinventing the Wheel (nasa.gov)

• Extensive wheel & rover traction and durability test facilities https://www.nasa.gov/specials/slope360/#

• Development of dust tolerant seals for environmental static and dynamic applications

• Development of advanced magnetic drive systems that are dust tolerant, lubricant free, and long life due to non-contacting nature of mechanism

• Significant expertise of space environmental effects on material properties

• Development of novel SMA-based mechanisms that minimize need for sliding & moving parts.

• Extensive tools and capabilities to model, simulate, & test materials and systems under relevant environments https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/research-and-engineering/materials-structures-extreme-environments/ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/wheels/ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/slope360/ https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/research-and-engineering/materials-structures-extreme-environments/

Glenn Research Center – Advanced Communications & Intelligent Systems

NASA Glenn Communication and Intelligent Systems enables orders-of magnitude increases in mission data transfer and provides continuous, cost-effective, and secure high data-rate communications

Core expertise includes advanced antennas, power amplifiers, integrated radiofrequency & optical terminals, software-defined radios, cognitive/autonomous communications systems, and networking for high-data-rate communications

• Directs and conducts research and engineering development in fields of advanced communications and intelligent systems technologies for applications in current and future aeronautics and space systems.

• Extensive tools and capabilities to model, simulate, & emulate communication system architectures and analyze performance

• Exploitation of new radiofrequency spectrum and maximizing data throughput on existing spectrum allocations are continuous endeavors.

• Development of intelligent controls, smart micro-and nano-sensors, and harsh environment electronics.

• Development of sensors and electronics for extreme environments include a combination of high temperatures, complex gaseous atmospheres ranging from oxidizing to reducing, high pressures, cryogenic temperatures, and space radiation.

• Demonstrated expertise in the development of flight computer algorithms to support mission and fault management for human space flight systems including the detection and diagnosis of off-nominal conditions (e.g., abort, caution & warning, safing, redundancy management).

• https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-communications-technology-and-development https://www.nasa.gov/content/glenn-expertise-communications-technology-and-development

NASA Center Capabilities Goddard Space Flight Center

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Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

Name: Mark Lupisella

Title: Exploration Integration Manager

Email: Mark.L.Lupisella@nasa.gov

Alternate POC

Name: Neal Barthelme

Title: Acting Chief, Commercialization, Innovation, and Synergies Office

Email: Neal.F.Barthelme@nasa.gov

Overview

• Mission, flight and ground systems definition, development, implementation and operation

• End-to-end mission architecture, system, subsystem, component developments and infusion and launch (e.g. Wallops Flight Facility)

• End-to-end lunar sensor and instrument systems engineering, design, build, delivery, management and science operations support.

• Engineering disciplines include systems engineering, mission systems engineering, electrical, mechanical/thermal, sensors/instruments, communications, flight dynamics, software, contamination, radiation effects, human systems integration, etc.

• Science support includes lunar surface, environment & landing site characterization, uncrewed robotic operations, end-to-end space weather capability, ionizing radiation, space geodesy, and science payload integration and operation

• Facilities & infrastructure include labs & simulation (including mission & architecture design, environmental testing, independent verification & validation, and sample analysis), mission operations, communications, flight dynamics, spacecraft servicing and refueling

EEE Parts – Military, Automotive & Commercial

• Innovative evaluation strategies: determining suitability of automotive and commercial parts for space flight applications.

• Selection, procurement, risk analysis of EEE parts for building space flight hardware.

Avionics, Software, Servicing, EEEE (Electrical, Electronic, Electro-magnetic, and Electro-optical) Parts & Radiation

Radiation Effects & Analysis: The GSFC Radiation Effects and Analysis Group (REAG) assesses the effects of the natural space radiation environment on electronic components, materials, and related technologies. utilizes both in-house and external facilities.

Fiber Optics and Photonics

• Design, manufacturing, testing, failure analysis, and integration of spaceflight fiber optics & optoelectronics.

• Dedicated cleanroom facilities for manufacturing and testing

• Received Patent in 2018 for new method of processing RF information.

Modular Unified Space Technology Avionics for Next Generation Missions (MUSTANG): Architecture providing a suite of electronic modules that can implement highly reliable and reconfigurable avionics systems.

SpaceCube: Intelligent multi-purpose avionics system that system incorporates several miniaturized electronic cards that allow mission developers to mix-and-match 1U (10 cm × 10 cm) cards to build payloads for mission-specific, onboard-processing needs.

Core Flight Software: An open source, human-rated reusable flight software architecture and system, including numerous flight software applications. Being used on many missions within and outside of NASA, including Gateway. NASA Software of the Year for

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>25 yrs Expertise in Robotics, Servicing, and Tool Development

• Mission planning, simulation, and execution of >40 in-flight servicing tasks

• Rapid and successful development of >190 astronaut and robotic tools in support of Hubble Space Telescope, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

EVA servicing mission, NASA’s Return-to-Flight tool suite, ISS robotic servicing technology demonstrations and OSAM-1

• Expertise in adapting, ruggedizing and qualifying COTS hardware and scientific instrumentation for the space environment such as the GSFC provided ISS Robotic External Leak Locator (RELL) that has successfully located external fluid leaks on ISS

• Extensive experience & proven methods to establish modular hardware interfaces for robotic & crew servicing to extend operational lifetimes

• Current work includes developing a common crew handling package for astronaut deployed instruments

• Existing ground facilities for robotic and testbed demonstration, verification, and validation

Shane Kimbrough with RELL

Understanding & Monitoring the Lunar & Space Environment

Sensor & Instrument Development

• GSFC is among the most experienced technology development and flight build organizations for potential lunar & space instruments, including IR spectrometers, cameras, mass specs, XRF, particle and dust sensors, microwave, neutron gamma ray spectrometers, mapping lidars, magnetometers and the thermal, power, packaging and communications to needed to hold and operate instruments.

• These instruments that can operate successfully in the harsh lunar & space environment and serve to identify hazards for human exploration, identify resources for future utilization, and advance scientific understanding.

• In-situ and remote sensing of key space weather and environmental indicators (e.g. electrons, neutrons, protons, electric and magnetic fields)

• High heritage miniaturized sensors to help provide knowledge of the space environment, including dose risk to astronauts

• Cryogenic systems

Instrument Sensor Examples

• Particle and field instruments to characterize the lunar space environment (e.g HERMES)

• Infrared and raman spectrometers, multi-wavelength lasers, and imagers map the surface mineralogy

• Mass spectrometers search for volatiles & with specialized ionization techniques analyze trace heavy elements & conduct in-situ chronology

• X-ray fluorescence and gamma ray spectrometers analyze elemental composition at and below the surface

• Many of these instruments are miniaturized for eventual use by astronauts on the lunar surface and in space

• Customizable Astronaut handheld and placed instrument packages

• GSFC has expertise in small scale regolith and sample handling systems

Operating in the harsh lunar and space environment

• Sophisticated models and laboratory studies enable an understanding of the dust, plasma, and radiation environment and how to deal with these challenges

• Advanced cryogenic systems with specialized materials selection and realistic test facilities enable operation in a highly variable thermal environment

• A specialized platform has been designed to survive the lunar night and communicate either directly to Earth or to an orbiting asses

• GSFC has expertise in monitoring of the space weather environment, modeling, and anomaly assessment, e.g. Moon to Mars Space

Weather Office and Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)

• Night survival lunar sensor package for CLPS and LTV (based on Lunar Environmental Monitoring System)

Communications, Navigation, Flight Dynamics

Autonomous Navigation, Guidance and Control:

Onboard, autonomous software integrates and controls spacecraft guidance, navigation and control hardware and software.

Lunar GPS/GNSS Receiver: Enables autonomous navigation and timing for cislunar space

• Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Navigator GPS system uses sidelobe (weak) signal acquisition/tracking and onboard Kalman filter.

• Receiver has set records for highest and fastest GPS receiver operations to date. Currently operating halfway to moon.

• NavCube is Next generation Navigator receiver based on heritage Navigator which adds dual frequency and is GNSS-upgradable via SpaceCube reprogrammable flight computer

X-Ray Navigation: Use of X-ray emitting millisecond pulsars as celestial clocks to perform onboard absolute navigation and timing anywhere in the Solar

System and beyond to km-level or better

• Scalable detector design demonstrated as part of the Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-rays Astrophysics mission.

• Technology includes the XNAV Laboratory Testbed (XLT), which provides a software and hardware test capability. The hardware-in-the-loop mode provides modulated X-ray output to stimulate a detector analogous to a GPS signal simulator, enabling a test-as-you-fly.

LIDARS for Landing & Proximity Operations

• GSFC HD Lidar - Hazard Detection lidar for precision landing: Goddard

Reconfigurable Solid-state Scanning LiDAR (GRISSLi) - enables prox ops;

Small All-range Lidar (SALI) – Lidar Imager for lunar surface and small body landings

Image Analysis

• The Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool (GIANT) is a high-fidelity software suite for performing precision optical navigation. Allows for rapid design of imaging plans with respect to surface modelling.

• Leadership roles on NASA lunar surface map and imaging processing and navigation tool projects.

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• Near Space Network : Orchestrates communications services for missions in low Earth orbit up to two million kilometers away by assessing mission requirements and fulfilling service requests through government and commercial assets.

• LunaNet Communications and Networking: Seamless transport and delivery of data across diverse surface, orbiting relay and direct-to-earth assets. Data within the network are dynamically prioritized to provide critical information at the fingertips of the astronaut.

• LunaSAR: Search and Rescue capabilities for Lunar Surface, based on international SAR messaging standards and surface operations experience. Flexible architecture allows beacon integration into vendor suit systems, enabling emergency location capability and astronaut health signaling supporting commercial users

Mission Engineering, Science, & Facilities

• Mission Design Lab, Instrument Design Lab, Architecture Design Lab for rapid design and advanced concept development using multiple platforms (e.g. CLPS)

• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Mission design, operations center, scientific analysis, and data applications for human exploration

• Lunar surface properties, environment, dust, plasma, exosphere, landing site selection & characterization, base camp planning, traverse planning

• Remote sensing databases for lunar science, including imaging, geology and data processing capabilities

• Communications Engineering and Network Center: End-to-end communication services & facilities infrastructure

• Search & Rescue: Capabilities being developed for Orion and will be adopted by Commercial Crew providers. Beacons delivered to the Orion for astronaut’s life preserver.

• Site Planning and Design: Evaluating future landing sites and developing base camp designs, including applying Human System Integration expertise

• Science Systems Engineering: Integrating science and systems development

• Astronaut, engineer, and flight controller science training: Providing expertise for how science is conducted in the field

• Surface rover instrument operations: Expertise from Mars missions

• Space Science Mission Operations: Provides operations for planetary, heliophysics, and astrophysics missions

• Robotics and Servicing: State-of-the-art robotic technologies for in-space servicing and reduction of operating costs

• Instrument Detector Development Lab: Highly advanced semiconductor fabrication activity that enables development for MEMS and nanotechnology

• Sciences and Exploration Laboratories: Sample laboratories to conduct rapid sample analyses, helping validate the utility of human landing sites and surface operations

• Space Weather Computational and Instrumentation Infrastructure: Improving characterization and modeling of events and risks through research and the CCMC

• Moon to Mars Environment Office: Provides space environment situational awareness

• Clean Room & Engineering Technology Capabilities: One of the largest cleanrooms in the world; Integration and Testing complex provides end-to-end engineering

• Independent Verification and Validation Center provides systems and software engineering functions to improve safety and reliability of missions

• Wallops Flight Facility: Provides safe, rapid and cost-effective access to space for technology demonstrations and maturation of precursor science

• Flight Dynamics Facility: HSF orbit determination and acquisition data; Back-up support for Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base and JSC

• Formation Flying Test Bed: Provides environment and simulators to test hardware and software for in-situ flight dynamics

Kodiak Laser for the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and

Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission

NASA Center Capabilities:

Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility

Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC: Linda Ham linda.j.ham@nasa.gov

Secondary POC: Lisa Hammond lisa.y.Hammond@nasa.gov

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Mission Operations and Training

Space Vehicle Systems Design, Development

Simulation and Testing Mission Architecture and

System Engineering & Integration

JSC Comprehensive Capabilities for Human Spaceflight

Enabling Human Capabilities

For JSC partnering and capability details visit, https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/partnerships/JSC-Partnership-Gateway

Experienced in mission-level multi-program systems engineering and integration of human and vehicle systems. Capabilities span mission architecture, vehicle systems and design, simulation and testing, enabling human capabilities, and mission operations and training to integrate unique solutions for human spaceflight.

Mission Architecture

• End-to-end mission performance assessments

• Beyond LEO Architecture Parametric Sizing Tool

• Lunar transfer analysis and trajectory development

• Trajectory Optimization

• Mission planning expertise

• Mission modeling

• Vehicle sizing

Systems Engineering and Integration

• Strong, effective vehicle-level and systems SE&I

• Uniquely qualified to tailor standards/processes to achieve appropriate rigor in prototypes, development hardware or spaceflight applications

• Standards application and requirements development

• DDT&E at spacecraft, system and component level

• Certification & human rating

• Demonstrated experience delivering of flight items leveraging specific domain capabilities for customers

• Large scale, fully tested, verified and qualified systems

• Spaceflight certified components

• Inline analysis and simulation products, including IV&V https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/partnerships/JSC-Partnership-Gateway

Design and development of space vehicle systems that integrate aeroscience & flight mechanics; power & propulsion; software, robotics, & simulation; structural; avionics system expertise; and crew & thermal expertise for crewed and uncrewed vehicles.

Propulsion, Power, & Fuel

Cells

Crew & Thermal Systems

Human Health & Performance

Mission Operations &

Training

Lunar Design Aspects

• Lunar crew module and systems

• Flight operations

• Human systems integration display development

• Autonomy/Class A Core Flight Software

• Precision Landing and Hazard Avoidance

• Intra-vehicular robotics/remote ops

• RPOD integrated solutions

• Probabilistic Risk Assessment

• Optimized exploration-class medical capabilities

• Integrated avionics and software backbone compatibility

• Dust characterizations and mitigation

• Light weight hatch and docking system DDT&E

• ECLSS/thermal optimization

• Test validated propulsion systems models

• Crew emergency response equipment

• Robust, thermal runaway resistant battery design

• Glass/Windows database

• High reliability pyrotechnic separation systems

Safety & Mission AssuranceAvionics

S/W, Robotics & Simulation

Aeroscience & Flight Mechanics

Structural Engineering

JSC Space Vehicle Systems -

Design & Development

JSC Simulation and Testing Development of high-fidelity, real-time, human/hardware-in-the loop engineering simulations/models/tests. Software development expertise for flight/ground systems, embedded and integrated software, and quality engineering/assurance.

Human-in-the-Loop Simulations

• Human Vacuum/Thermal Chamber Testing

• Active Response Gravity Offset System (Argos)

• Manual Control of Vehicles

• Mock-up Development

• Underwater & Surface Systems Analog

• Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA)

• Planetary exploration training for the crew

Simulation

• Rarefied Gas Dynamics (RGD)

• Integrated Power, Avionics, and Software test bed

• Systems Engineering Simulator

Environmental Testing

• Random vibe w/ high G & high force

• Radiant Heat Test Facility

• EMI test chambers

• Acoustics Environment Analysis

• Operational Environment Lighting Analysis

• Lunar Environment chamber with soil

System Testing

• Battery screening/abuse testing

• Power quality & storable cryogenic testing

• Tunable beam & pyro shock testing

• Dynamics & Control of large structure

• Precision Landing & Hazard Avoidance

• Optical Navigation, Terrain Relative Navigation

• Electronics design & comm testing

• Antenna modeling & test

• 6 DOF Dynamic Docking Systems Testing

• Mechanical and electrical part testing, failure analysis

• Hypervelocity impact testing (MMOD) for shielding

• Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Testing

Hazardous Testing

• NASA-STD-6001 Flight Acceptance Standard Tests (FAST):

• Upward Flammability, Materials Odor & Offgas

Toxicity, Heated Promoted Combustion, LOX/GOX

Mech Impact, Hypergolic Material Compatibility

• Rocket Propulsion Test & Eval: In-Space Propulsion Systems, Hypergolic Propellants, LOX/Methane, Small SRM’s

• Decontamination & Refurbishment of Flight Components

• O2 Compatibility Assessments, Component/Material

Testing & Hazards Evaluation

• Propellant & Aerospace Fluids Testing & Energetic

Hazards Evaluation

• Pressure Vessel Destructive Testing, Analysis, Qual & NDE

• Training Courses:

• COPV Damage Detection, Blast & Frag, Hypergol Systems, H2 Handling, FAST Familiarization, Totally Encapsulating Suit Boot Camp, Fire Hazards in O2 Systems, O2 Systems Ops & Maintenance

Enabling Human Capabilities Experienced in integrating human systems into mission architecture and vehicle systems. Capabilities include expertise in human health and performance, EVA, and exploration sciences.

• Provides subject matter expertise on vehicle certification requirements interpretation and provides verification methods assistance for all human rating space flight requirements:

• HSI Plans and Processes

• Human System Requirements and Verification plans

• Human Factors Engineering

• Crew Task Analysis

• Crew Worksite Analysis

• Human Error Analysis

Human Health and Performance Extravehicular Activity (EVA)

• External Interface definition, requirements, and integration

(hatches, ladders, handrails, worksite interfaces, lighting)

• Internal interface definition and support (power, water, communication)

• Evaluation of preliminary module concepts (physical or VR), including support for engineering and crewed evaluations and simulations

• Refinement of operations concepts for use of module to perform EVA and EVA servicing

• Support for analog testing (Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Active Response Gravity Offset System, VR sims)

• Assurance and certification of EVA hardware

• Safety and reliability controls for EVA operations

Exploration Science

• Science Mission Planning

• Lunar sample handling, containment, contamination control, physical and chemical properties, and dust

• Sample curation (cold curation building capacity)

• Lunar science expertise (sample science, remote sensing, planetary science, analytical instruments)

• Human science expertise

• Landing site characterization

• Geotechnical properties characterization

• Traverse planning

• Image analysis expertise (photogrammetry)

• Planetary exploration training for crew

• Review and applicability of human system standards, tailoring of verification plans, technical guidance and test facilities spanning a wide set of expertise:

• Vehicle Acceleration and Velocity Models Analysis (Occupant Protection)

• Manual Control of Vehicles

• Toxicology and Contamination Control Plans

• Radiation Monitoring, Protection and Exposure

Analysis

• Decompression Sickness Mitigations

• Lunar Dust Exposure Management and Mitigations

• Acoustics Environment Analysis

• Operational Environment Lighting Analysis

• Human Centered Design and Space Habitability

Architecture

• Environmental Monitoring (surfaces, air, water)

• Crew Health and Nutrition Systems

Mission Operations & Training JSC provides mission planning, training, and mission execution for all of NASAs human space flight missions. JSC has extensive experience coordinating and integrating both international and commercial partners.

Mission planning, Training, and Mission Execution

Design For Operations – Incorporating human space flight experience into the design process helps provide an efficient, operable vehicle design.

• power/data channelization

• flight software integration

• bus loss & load sheds

• loss of attitude control

• Manual Operations

• Overrides

• “Fly As Is” Assessments

• ops workaround solutions

Mission & Training Facilities – Mission control and training facilities are the hub for human space flight operations.

Mission Control

• Control & Customer

Support Room

• Network access

Space Vehicle Mockup Facility

• High Bay for Full Size

Mockups

• Crew Training

• Development & Testing

Astronaut Training Facility

• High Fidelity Space Craft

Simulators

• Integrated Systems

Training

Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory

• One of the worlds largest pools

• Crew Training

• Hardware verification

Rapid Prototype Lab (RPL) - Development of vehicle displays and astronaut interface prototypes for quick deployment. This capability is imbedded into the crew office providing direct crew feedback and experience into the crew interface development process.

Aircraft Operations – Aircraft Operations at JSC provides unique capabilities to support large volume critical cargo transport as well as high altitude, high fidelity, imagery and sensing capabilities

Super Guppy

• Supports payloads up to 24” in diameter and 45000 lbs

• Potentially saving cost and schedule

WB-57 – High Altitude Platform

• Support scientific research

• Launch & test support

• Advanced Technology development

• Operations concept definition

• Requirements integration

• Operations product development

• flight design& mission analysis

• Curriculum development

• Flight controller Training

• Instructor Training

• Astronaut Training

• Real-time Operations

NASA Center Capabilities Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

Name: Wayne Lee

Title: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, HLS Program Area Manager

Email: Wayne.J.Lee@jpl.nasa.gov

Secondary POC

Name: David Eisenman

Title: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, HLS Collaboration Manager

Email: David.J.Eisenman@jpl.nasa.gov

JPL Mission Design and Navigation

• Cutting-Edge Capabilities

– Dynamic modeling for complex systems

– Processing conventional tracking data and spacecraft sensor data

– Innovative mission design and trajectory analysis

– High-fidelity orbit determination and flight path control

Mars EDL

Earth Return

• JPL Provides End-to-End Capability for Deep-Space Mission Design and Navigation for NASA and International Partners

• > 50 years of experience in developing and operating deep-space / lunar missions

• State-of-the-art software for in-depth mission design and precision navigation

GRAIL

Lunar Gravity Mission

• Key Mission Analysis & Operations Expertise

– Launch and Initial Acquisition

– Flyby, Encounter, Orbit Insertion, Formation Flying

– Power-Descent-Initiation (PDI) & DDL/EDL

– Earth Return/Re-entry

– Low Thrust & Low Energy Trajectories

– Onboard Autonomous Navigation

JPL Landing Systems, and Safe and Precise Landing

JPL Landing Radar, and Landing Plume Flow and Regolith Analysis Capabilities

JPL Deep Space Communications, and Deep Space Network (DSN) Uniques Capabilities

JPL Environmental Monitoring, and Other Technological

NASA Center Capabilities Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Center Points of Contact:

Primary POC

Khoa Vo khoa.a.vo@nasa.gov

Secondary POC

Jaime Gomez

Jaime.d.Gomez@nasa.gov mailto:khoa.a.vo@nasa.gov mailto:Jaime.d.Gomez@nasa.gov

GROUND PROCESSING AND LAUNCH OPERATIONS

As the world’s premier multi-user spaceport, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center offers world class expertise and capabilities in support of commercial companies performing risk mitigation, manufacturing, ground processing, and launch operations.

The unique spaceport offers highly technically skilled professionals, spaceport integration, full security, logistics, transportation and a vast successful history in innovative scientific research, technology development, spacecraft and vehicle processing, and launch operations. KSC can provide consultation and support (facilities and Subject

Matter Experts) for various phases of ground processing including:

• Cross mission architecture risk reduction

• Element arrival, transportation, inspection and testing

• Mission integration and testing

• Hazardous offline processing and servicing

• Hardware closeouts and final inspection

• Encapsulation and transportation to launch vehicle integration site

• Launch services

• Launch vehicle integration, testing and rollout to pad

• Launch pad processing

• Launch countdown simulation and training

• Command and control systems

• Flight Readiness Reviews (FRRs)

KSC Capabilities Document Link https://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/-/media/KSC%20Partnerships/KHB-1863_KscCapabilities-Basic.ashx?la=en&hash=C69D26110A365F325B15D6489C1322BB

Exploration Technology

Granular Mechanics, Regolith Operations, and

ISRU

• Regolith characterization

• Dust-tolerant mechanisms

• Plume-surface interaction

• Robotics for surface systems

• Excavation technologies

• Construction and 3D printing with regolith

• Trash to gas

• ISRU technologies for living off the land

Cryogenics Technologies

• Thermal insulation systems and novel materials

• Energy-efficient technologies for space launch and exploration

• Advanced propellant transfer systems

• Multilayer Insulation (MLI) performance testing

• Zero boil off and propellant densification and liquefaction

• Energy-efficient storage and control of cryofuels

• Portable propellant loading systems

• Technologies for autonomous cryogenic loading operations

Electrostatics and Dust Mitigation

• Technologies that leverage electrostatics to solve problems. Filtering dust from air or repelling dust off surfaces using electrostatic forces

• Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) to clear dust off multiple materials and flight hardware

• Technologies to protect flight hardware and launch equipment from electrostatic discharges https://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/-/media/KSC%20Partnerships/KHB-1863_KscCapabilities-Basic.ashx?la=en&hash=C69D26110A365F325B15D6489C1322BB

Engineering & Testing Capabilities

Expertise in launch vehicles and payload processing provides risk mitigation solutions for future space missions.

• Hypergolic and cryogenic propellants Subject Matter Expertise

• Ground test and vehicle emulator operations

• Testing and laboratory capabilities support

• Vehicle flight analysis

• Modeling and simulation

• Software development

• Lunar instruments development

• Materials and processes

Optical Window Testing

Contamination Inspection

Lunar Instruments Orion/Gateway

Emulator

Hypergols Operations

Hydrogen Sensors configured for Testing

Launch Equipment Test Facility https://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/-/media/KSC%20Partnerships/KHB-1863_KscCapabilities-Basic.ashx?la=en&hash=C69D26110A365F325B15D6489C1322BB

Infrastructure and Logistics Capabilities

Facilities and Infrastructure

• Launch operations and communications

• Clean rooms

• Firing rooms

• Hazardous payload processing facilities including the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) and Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF)

• Non-hazardous payload processing facilities including the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF)

• Assembly, manufacturing, integration, and operations support facilities including the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and the Rotational, Processing and Surge Facility

(RPSF)

• Launch and Landing Facility (LLF)*

Logistics and Transportation Services

The technical expertise in logistics services includes maintenance planning, supply support, handling, transportation, technical documentation, and test equipment for operations and maintenance of ground and flight hardware.

• Storage, handling and servicing/de-servicing expertise

• Transportation services by rail, air, road and sea transportation methods including lifting and handling

• Large combined warehouse space in several facilities, some of which are environmentally controlled

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Laboratories

• Advanced Imaging and Analysis Laboratory (AIAL)

• Animal Care Laboratory

• Applied Chemistry Laboratory (ACL)

• Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU)

• Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

• Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratory

• Chemical Sampling and Analysis Laboratory

• Chemistry and Life Sciences Laboratory

• Commercial Launch Control Center

• Precision Cleaning & Component Refurbishment

• Chemical Analysis (Propellants and Fuels)

• Cryogenics Test Laboratory (CTL)

• Customer Avionics Interface Development and Analysis Laboratory

• Design Visualization

• Electrical Development Laboratory (EDL)

• Electromagnetic Laboratory (EML)

• Electrostatics & Surface Physics Laboratory (ESPL)

• Environmental Microbiology Laboratory

• Fiber Optics and Communications Laboratory

• Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Laboratory (GMRO)

• Launch Equipment Test Facility (LETF)

• Materials Analysis Laboratory (MAL)

• Mechanical and Environmental Testing Laboratory (METL)

• Metrology Laboratory

• Microgravity Simulation Support Facility (MSSF)

• Non-Destructive Evaluation Laboratory (NDE)

• Precision Measurement/Alignment Lab (PMA)

• Prototype Development Laboratory (PDL)

• Research Mission Support Laboratory

• ISS Offline Payload Laboratories

• Standards and Calibration Laboratories

• Vibration Test Laboratory (VTL)…