Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: THE BOEING COMPANY
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2013-08-08 to 2016-10-12
Current total value of award: $1020511.23
Description: TASK ORDER STATEMENT OF WORK SOW  TASK TITLE BOEING LCAT ARC JET TEST IN SUPPORT OF FLEXIBLE TPS EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND THE HYPERSONIC INFLATABLE AERODYNAMIC DECELERATOR HIAD PROJECT IS A TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT EFFORT INVESTIGATING THE VIABILITY AND SURVIVABILITY OF INFLATABLE AERODYNAMIC DECELERATORS AT FLIGHT RELEVANT ENVIRONMENTS FOR APPLICATION TO FUTURE PLANETARY ENTRY SPACECRAFT  IN ORDER TO EVALUATE A FLEXIBLE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS FTPS WHICH IS THE HEAT SHIELD FOR THE HIAD THE FTPS MUST BE SUBJECTED TO FLIGHT RELEVANT HEATING  PRESSURES AND SHEARING ENVIRONMENTS EXPERIENCED DURING REENTRY AND SHOW MARGINED PERFORMANCE AND SURVIVAL  IN SUPPORT OF THE HIAD PROJECTS FLEXIBLE SYSTEMS TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AREA THE NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER LARC ENGINEERING GROUP IS MODELING TESTING AND VERIFYING MODELING OF FTPS LAYUPS IN FLIGHT RELEVANT REACTIVE FLOW ENVIRONMENTS IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A MODELING PARADIGM AND A MORE EFFECTIVE MARGIN POLICY FOR INFLATABLE AND RIGID REENTRY SYSTEMS  SPECIFIC NASA PROVIDED SPECIMENS MADE UP OF VARIOUS LAYUP COMBINATIONS OF ADVANCED FLEXIBLE MATERIALS ARE MODELED AND TESTED IN FLIGHT RELEVANT CONDITIONS FOR MODEL VERIFICATION AND MARGIN MATURATION   THIS EFFORT BUILDS UPON TESTING ALREADY CONDUCTED AT THE LCAT UNDER BOEINGS SMAAART CONTRACT NNL10AA05B TASK ORDER NNL11AD16T ENTITLED BOEING LCAT ARC JET TEST IN SUPPORT OF FLEXIBLE TPS EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT  UNDER NNL11AD16T HUNDREDS OF  FTPS SAMPLES HAVE BEEN EVALUATED AT SEVERAL CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST ESTABLISHING A BASIS FOR THE CRITICAL ADVANCEMENT OF THE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT OF THE INFLATABLE REENTRY VEHICLE EXPERIMENT IRVE 3 IN JULY 2012 AND ADVANCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF FTPS  THE TESTING DESCRIBED BY THIS SOW WILL CONTINUE THIS CRUCIAL ADVANCEMENT BY BUILDING UPON THE DATABASE OF RESULTS ALREADY OBTAINED  FURTHER TESTING IS NEEDED TO COMPARE MORE ADVANCED MATERIALS AND LAYUPS WITH PREVIOUSLY TESTED COUPONS AND TO EXTEND THE HEAT FLUX AND PRESSURE TEST RANGE SIMULATING HARSHER ATMOSPHERIC REENTRY FLIGHT ENVIRONMENTS SCOPE OBJECTIVES THE SCOPE OF THIS TASK ORDER IS TO EVALUATE FTPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT COMPARABLE OR HARSHER SIMULATED ATMOSPHERIC REENTRY FLIGHT CONDITIONS AND RIGID DEPLOYABLE TPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT MUCH HARSHER SIMULATED ATMOSPHERIC REENTRY FLIGHT CONDITIONS  FTPS MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS WILL BE TESTED UTILIZING THE LCAT FACILITY FOR 12 WEEKS OF TOTAL TEST TIME AT FOUR SPECIFIC TEST CONDITIONS WHICH SIMULATE RELEVANT TEST ENVIRONMENTS  THE FIRST TWO TEST CONDITIONS GIVEN IN OBJECTIVES 1 AND 2 BELOW WERE DEVELOPED UNDER TASK ORDER NNL11AD16T  NEW MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS WILL BE COMPARED AT THESE CONDITIONS  THE REMAINING TWO TEST CONDITIONS ARE NEW TEST REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED IN OBJECTIVES 3 AND 4 BELOW TO EXTEND THE RANGE OF THE CURRENT MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS DATA BASE THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS TASK ARE AS FOLLOWS OBJECTIVE ONE  EVALUATION OF FTPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT FLIGHT LIKE CONDITIONS SIMULATING A HEAT FLUX ENTRY CONDITION SQUARE PULSE OR MISSION PROFILE IN STAGNATION OR SHEAR OF 50 W CM2 HEAT FLUX BETWEEN 17 AND 50 W CM2 PRESSURE BETWEEN 1 7 AND 10KPA OBJECTIVE TWO  EVALUATION OF FTPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT FLIGHT LIKE CONDITIONS SIMULATING A HEAT FLUX ENTRY CONDITION SQUARE PULSE OR MISSION PROFILE IN STAGNATION OR SHEAR OF 50 W CM2HEAT FLUX 50 W CM2 PRESSURE 6KPA OBJECTIVE THREE  EVALUATION OF FTPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT FLIGHT LIKE CONDITIONS SIMULATING A HEAT FLUX ENTRY CONDITION SQUARE PULSE OR MISSION PROFILE IN STAGNATION OR SHEAR OF 75 W CM2 HEAT FLUX 75W CM2 PRESSURE 10KPA OBJECTIVE FOUR EVALUATION OF FTPS LAYUPS AND MATERIALS AT FLIGHT LIKE CONDITIONS SIMULATING A HEAT FLUX ENTRY CONDITION SQUARE PULSE IN STAGNATION OF 130 W CM2 HEAT FLUX 130 W CM2 PRESSURE BETWEEN 6 AND 12K