STPSat 7 RFI Ltr (003).pdf

Industry Market Research – Request for Information

The DoD Space Test Program is conducting an industry market research on bus availability and bus manufacturing capability. We are interested in your company’s bus capabilities to host a notional set of payloads to a LEO orbit. The notional payloads are listed in the table below.

Please provide the specifications of your busses, manufacturing timeline from contract award to delivery, and rough order of magnitude cost for the busses that could notionally carry these payloads. Also, please indicate which payloads could be carried by each of your busses. We would appreciate your timely response.

P ay lo ad

A p o ge e (k m

A p o ge e( km

V ar ia n ce

P er ig ee km

P er ig ee km

V ar ia n ce

In cl in at io n d eg

P o w er

W

L x

W x

H cm

To ta l M as s (k g)

P o in ti n g

R eq u ir em en ts

Payload #1 400 +/- 50 km 400 +/- 50 km 0-90 10 see note 1 none required

Payload #2 400 +/- 50 km 400 +/- 50 km 0-90 10 see note 1 none required

Payload #3 428 +/- 100 km 428 +/- 100 km 20-100 50 20x20x5 8 Nadir

Payload #4 500 +/- 200 km 500 +/- 200 km 40 22 35x20x35 30 Zenith

Payload #5 500 +/- 200 km 500 +/- 200 km 40 22 35x20x35 30 Zenith

Payload #6 500 +/- 200 km 500 +/- 200 km 40 22 35x20x35 30 Zenith

Payload #7 650 +/- 50 km 650 +/- 50 km 98.1 70 110x100x140 175 side to side +/- 35deg fore and aft 20 deg

Note: The notional experiment is a Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) Single Board Computer (SBC)