Helio Boom POD Lunar FINAL.pdf

Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) for

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Lunar Instrument Concepts

Spaceflight Boom

March 2024

1 INTRODUCTION/SCOPE

This proposal opportunity is in anticipation of several possible responses to NASA ROSES 2024 program element appendices: Stand Alone Landing Site Agnostic Payloads and Research

Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (SALSA/PRISM) and Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV).

NASA GSFC is developing instrument concepts requiring booms to be proposed for these calls.

This partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner(s) to:

• Develop the boom concept for the initial proposal submission.

• Provide information, graphics and text on the boom for the proposal as appropriate.

• Oversee (including building, integrating, and testing) the complete flight boom system if awarded.

The proposed missions are currently in pre-Phase A. This phase ends with proposals that will be due 3 months after the program element is released. If any proposal is selected for implementation, the mission will proceed into Phase A, per NASA Procedural Requirement

(NPR) 7120.8A (e.g. http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/main_lib.html). The following schedule should be used as a basis for responses to this opportunity:

Partnership Opportunity Document released March 1, 2024

Responses due April 3, 2024

Partner Selection announced ~April 15, 2024

AO Released ~March 2024

Proposal submittal in response to AO ~June 2024

Selection(s) Announced ~Oct 2024

Launch Readiness date ~Oct 2028

More detailed dates should be available in the final program element for each instrument concept.

Total cost and cost fidelity are important issues for the proposal. The cost cap for this program element is yet to be finalized, and is expected to be ~ $8M w $2M for reserves. Proposed cost shall include the boom development,testing and boom to instrument integration support.

Reserves will be held at the Project level and not with the partner.

There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission to the program element. Funding will be available for subsequent phases should the candidate mission concept be competitively down-selected to move into the next phase. These proposals are expected to be single-step.

Upon selection, GSFC may discuss with the partner a further tailoring of roles proposed by respondents in the best interests of the proposal.

2 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

GSFC is including multiple boom concepts in this POD. GSFC will select zero to two different partners for these instrument concepts.

Instrument A is seeking proposals for a coilable boom or similar construction to meet these requirements for upcoming SALSA and LTV opportunities:

1. between 1.5m and 3m long, deployed

2. support a ~4 kg end mass (including harnesses) that is ~16 cm in diameter

3. minimum deployed frequency of 5 Hz

4. magnetically “clean” and electrically conductive

5. deployed mass/length of <100grams/meter

6. one-time deployable in lunar gravity

7. max stowed height of 15 cm including all hardware

8. capable of surviving typical launch loads

9. quantity: min 1, max 2 flight, min 0 max 1 ETU

10. currently at Technology Readiness Level of 6 or higher

11. (LTV concept only, not required for SALSA concept) human safety compatible for deployment on astronaut operated vehicles

3 PRE-PROPOSAL SUPPORT

It is expected that the selected POD respondent will provide support using their own resources to help develop the required proposal elements in response to the program element. The selected

POD respondent is expected to aid the proposal team in the development/production of the required proposal content as well as supporting parts of the proposal production.

The POD respondent will:

• Help develop the boom concept for the initial proposal submission

• Provide detailed cost estimate for the proposal

• Provide information, graphics and text on the boom for the proposal as appropriate.

• Write or assist in the writing of portions of the proposal relevant to their responsibilities

• Will coordinate with the PI and other proposal team members to help define requirements, interfaces, system architecture, to identify study topics, and to predict flight performance.

4 PHASE A SUPPORT

If the concept is selected for development and launch (Phases A-F), the partner will be responsible for the design and development of the boom and integration support. The partner will receive funding to conduct these tasks as described in the proposal. The period of performance for this interval is expected to last approximately 4 years, starting late 2024.

5 POD RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS, FORMAT, AND CONTENT

Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC Point of Contact (POC) with a Notice Of

Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent). This Notice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allows the GSFC team to provide answers to questions from potential partners. Notice of Interest shall be sent to the POC via email with ‘Notice of

Interest’ in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an email address to send further information.

GSFC POCs: E. J. Summerlin, errol.summerlin@nasa.gov, and Gerry Daelemans, gerard.j.daelemans@nasa.gov

All questions and answers will be made available to all those who respond to the Notice of

Interest. The identity of the source of the questions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain information unique to a respondent’s proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identified as such.

An electronic PDF document response to the POD shall be sent to the POC, due no later than 5 p.m. ET on April 3rd, 2024. Questions about this POD should also be directed to the POC.

Following receipt of responses, NASA/GSFC will contact each POD respondent to set up teleconferences for oral presentation and questions and answers. The timeline of these teleconferences is expected to be the 1-2 weeks after the response deadline date.

Partnership selection(s) is expected to be made one week week after final presentations. NASA

GSFC reserves the option to NOT select any teaming partners for any/all concepts covered under this POD offering based on materials received.

The respondent shall:

1. Demonstrate understanding of the boom under consideration:

a. Means of addressing all technical requirements as currently specified.

b. Highlight any particularly critical or challenging areas for the design and implementation of the boom.

c. Identify available design and modeling capabilities required to support development of the boom deployment system and what level of experience in similar systems important personnel have.

2. Provide any ideas or input related to the boom challenge, which may help us in our decision, including recommended potential study topics.

3. Discuss whether the boom is self-supporting in the deployed configuration in a 1G environment and identify the GSE used for ground deployment testing and GSFC-based testing needs.

4. Discuss skills needed, and ideas on what level of conceptual design and important analysis and trade studies might be needed.

5. Identify fabrication and testing facilities that will be required to support development and test of the boom deployment system, both as a subsystem and during Instrument I&T.

6. Identify which missions your organization have successfully supported in this capacity and provide customer reference POCs.

a. Provide information on recent similar flight assemblies designed and delivered and how that experience is applicable to the boom. Basic information on scope of work, and how well the fielded system met the requirements (cost and technical) as well as how well have they met the proposed schedules.

7. Provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate and schedule for the scope of the design, fabrication, and testing of the boom. The respondent shall not be held to this cost or schedule, but it will serve as a consideration during the partnership evaluation.

Responses shall be provided in a slide format (e.g. Powerpoint) and each response may be up to

10 slides. Excluded from the page count are the cover letter, title pages, table of contents, and acronym list. Partners may attach additional appendices that further describe their capabilities, although GSFC is under no obligation to include the contents of such appendices in the evaluation of the offer package. Additional appendices may be in a separate document.

The entire offer package, including any cover letter, title pages, and other supporting material, shall be provided as PDF files delivered to the POC.

Responses will be treated as proprietary information and controlled as such.

All respondents to this POD will be offered a debrief after final selection.

6 EVALUATION FACTORS AND CRITERIA

Evaluations will be performed independently for each mission concept. The evaluation team will use the following factors in selection and award:

1. Technical Approach (35%). Offerors will be evaluated on their ability to meet the technical requirements given in Section 2. This includes demonstrated understanding of the requirements and proposed approach to meet those requirements.

2. Cost (30%). Offerors will be evaluated on their overall cost and on the reasonableness of cost and schedule estimates.

3. Relevant Experience and Past Performance (35%). Special emphasis will be given to demonstrated experience with similar missions.

7 ACRONYMS

AO Announcement of Opportunity

ET Eastern Time

FY Fiscal Year

GSE Ground Support Equipment

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center

I & T Integration & Test

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NLT No Later Than

NPR NASA Procedural Requirement

PDF Portable Document Format

PI Principal Investigator

POC Point of Contact

POD Partnership Opportunity Document

ROM Rough Order of Magnitude

RY Real Year

TBD To Be Determined