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Statement of Work

Space NG (firefly) EDU Unit

A. Background/History of Requirement:

NASA requires flight-representative vision and AI compute hardware to support development, integration, and test. Software development and hardware-in-the-loop testing cannot proceed with commercial-grade surrogate hardware, as the target flight configuration must be exercised to validate camera interfaces, compute performance, and vision navigation software behavior prior to flight unit integration. A dual-camera stereo configuration is required to support stereo depth estimation and perception development. Procuring an Engineering Development Unit early reduces integration risk and prevents late-cycle rework by allowing software to be developed against flight-identical hardware. No existing owned asset meets this requirement.

Firefly Aerospace (formerly Space-ng) is the sole manufacturer and source of the Sol3 vision system; no substitute provides interface or software compatibility with the planned flight configuration.

B. Description of item(s) to be purchased:

Firefly Aerospace Sol3 Engineering Development Unit (EDU) hardware, as follows:

• Qty 1 — Sol3 Base Unit, EDU build

• Qty 1 — Sol3 C-mount Camera Module, EDU build (IMX565 sensor, C-11 lens, RGB)

• Qty 1 — Sol3 C-mount Camera Module, EDU build (IMX565 sensor, C-11 lens, Monochrome)

• Qty 1 — Sol3 Camera Harness, EDU build (2 ft baseline)

C. Requirements Specifications:

All hardware shall be furnished in the EDU build class — flight-grade parts and chemfilmed aluminum finish, identical to flight units except that flight acceptance testing is not performed — and shall meet or exceed:

• Base Unit compute: 8-core ARM Cortex CPU; GPU/NPU providing 15 TOPS; 8 GB RAM; 1 TB storage

• Base Unit I/O: 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet; 2× RS-422; 2× auxiliary 12 V power outputs; isolated 5 V trigger input

• Base Unit power/mass: 24–40 VDC input; <3 W idle, 30 W maximum; <0.75 kg; 19.8 × 10.2 × 5.0 cm

• Camera capacity: Support for up to 12 camera modules, 6 operating simultaneously; two (2) modules populated under this order

• Inertial: Four 6-DoF chip-scale IMUs integrated in the Base Unit; one 6-DoF IMU per camera module

• Camera modules: Sony IMX565 sensor, 12.4 MP; one RGB and one monochrome; global shutter; 8–12 bit depth; >30 FPS at full ROI in 10-bit mode; up to 6 Gbps per module; 0.8–2 W per module; 6.5 × 4.8 ×

4.2 cm

• Optics: Flight C-mount C-11 lens on each module — 11° horizontal / 8° vertical field of view, F/4.0 minimum to F/22 maximum

• Cabling: Camera harness configured for a 2 ft stereo baseline; single 24 AWG coax per module carrying both power and data

• Software: Sol3 SDK with network command/telemetry API, containerized custom application support, and image simulation/injection for hardware-in-the-loop testing

3. Period of Performance:

Delivery shall be at the earliest date available from the vendor. Vendor shall provide the soonest achievable delivery date with quotation, and delivery shall be completed within that quoted timeframe after receipt of order (ARO). Warranty per manufacturer's standard terms from date of acceptance.