Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
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: 2018-03-16 to 2022-02-11
Current total value of award: $134121585
Description: JOHNS HOPKINS APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY (JHU/APL) WILL PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR THE DRAGONFLY MISSION. DRAGONFLY IS A PROPOSED NEW FRONTIERS MISSION TO SEND A RELOCATABLE LANDER TO SATURN'S MOON TITAN. APL WILL FUND ITS TECHNICAL PARTNERS AND NON-GOVERNMENT SCIENCE TEAM COINVESTIGATORS THROUGH SUBCONTRACTS. ALL EFFORT BY NASA CENTER PARTNERS (GSFC, AMES, LANGLEY, AND JPL) WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH INTER-AGENCY TRANSFERS. THE PRIMARY FOCUS ON THE WORK IS THE INITIATION OF THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF THE DRAGONFLY SPACECRAFT, INITIATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROUND SYSTEM, CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS (DRAGMET, DRAGNS, DRAGONCAM, AND DRAMS/DRACO), INITIATION OF DEVELOPMENT OF DETAILED MISSION DESIGN PLAN AND INITIATION OF WORK TOWARDS ACHIEVING NEPA COMPLIANCE AND LAUNCH APPROVAL.