Award of Space Science & Technology Evaluation Facility – First Flight (SSTEF-1)
Awarded Award Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 80LARC21CA009
- Agency
- Langley Research Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Awarded
- to Alpha Space Test And Research Alliance, LLC
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Contract number
- 80LARC21CA009 Federal contract award
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- PSC
- AR13 Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research And Supporting Activities; Experimental Development
- Place of performance
- Houston, Texas 77058, United States
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About this opportunity
Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC was awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at $22,099,122 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center. Under this contract, Alpha Space will develop the Space Science & Technology Evaluation Facility-First Flight to provide a general-purpose lunar testbed for power, data services and experiment testing at the lunar surface. Work will be conducted over two phases, with the first culminating in a ground demonstration of a fully qualified test facility and the second involving an integrated flight demonstration on a lunar lander mission within a 36-month period.
Notice text
A firm fixed price contract was awarded to Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC (Alpha Space) on August 11th, 2021, for a $22,099,122 effort after being selected under the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) NASA Research Announcement (NRA) 80HQTR20NOA01, entitled "Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Tipping Point Technologies" (SpaceTech-REDDI-2020), under Topic #2, Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative Technology Demonstration.
The NASA STMD mission is to address key research and technology challenges that will advance revolutionary capabilities for both NASA exploration mission challenges and national needs, and also address the market challenges associated with providing state-of-the-art commercial space products and services. The Tipping Point Appendix sought U.S. industry-led proposals for space technology demonstration projects to enable public-private partnerships to accelerate co-development of key capabilities for missions beyond low Earth orbit that would enable the return of humans to the moon for long-term exploration and utilization.
Under this effort, Alpha Space will develop a Space Science & Technology Evaluation Facility-First Flight (SSTEF-1) for a general-purpose lunar testbed providing power and data services to individual experiments/payloads for testing at the lunar surface. The work is divided into two phases: Phase 1 (base) is for the design, development, test, and evaluation (DDT&E) of the SSTEF-1 facility; it culminates with a ground demonstration of a fully flight qualified, Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 8 SSTEF-1 system. Phase 2 is a flight demonstration on a lunar payload delivery service lander with third party flight experiments integrated and tested on the Moon. The result of Phase 2 is a TRL9 SSTEF-1 design, TRL9 Lunar Testing as a Service and, potentially, TRL9 technologies resulting from the integrated third-party flight experiments.
Awarded contract 80LARC21CA009 to Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC for 22099122.00 on 2021-08-11.
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