Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
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: 2015-09-25 to 2017-04-30
Current total value of award: $274834
Description: EVALUATION OF COMMERCIALIZATION BARRIERS FOR SUBORBITAL REUSABLE AND SMALL SATELLITE LAUNCH SYSTEMS  TO FACILITATE EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OF EMERGING SUBORBITAL REUSABLE AND SMALL SATELLITE LAUNCH SYSTEMS, THE FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM (FOP)IS TASKING THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION TO PROVIDE EXPERTISE AND ASSISTANCE WITH ASSESSING MARKET AND TECHNOLOGY BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OF SUBORBITAL FLIGHT VEHICLES AND SMALL SATELLITES LAUNCH SYSTEMS RELEVANT TO THE SPACE TECHNOLOGY MISSION DIRECTORATE (STMD) INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITH U.S. INDUSTRY.  THE FOP IS ATTEMPTING TO HELP FOSTER A SUSTAINABLE SUBORBITAL MARKET BY FACILITATING ACCESS TO NEAR SPACE FOR A VARIETY OF USERS THROUGH THE U.S. COMMERCIAL REUSABLE SUBORBITAL INDUSTRY.  THE NASA FOP OFFICE HAS UTILIZED THE CONTRACT WITH THE THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION (AEROSPACE) TO SUPPORT IT IN AWARDING EFFORTS TO DEVELOP THE SUBORBITAL MARKET.  NASA AWARDED THE SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING, EVALUATION AND TEST SERVICES (SEETS) CONTRACT (NNJ11HB94C) TO AEROSPACE IN APRIL 2011 AS AN AGENCY INDEFINITE QUANTITY INDEFINITE DELIVERY (IDIQ) CONTRACT THAT IS ADMINISTERED BY THE NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER (JSC).  MOST OF THE PREVIOUS TASK ORDERS ISSUED TO AEROSPACE BY THE NASA ARMSTRONG FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER (AFRC) WERE TO DEVELOP A MODEL BASED ON THE ECO-PHYSICS OF LAUNCH, FOR CHARACTERIZING MARKET DEMAND FOR SUBORBITAL REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES (SRLVS) TO GAIN MARKET INSIGHT.  THE MODEL BECAME AN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT DECISION TOOL THAT WAS USED BY NASA FOP TO EVALUATE FLIGHT PROVIDER PROPOSALS.  THIS TASK ORDER CONTINUES THE USE OF AEROSPACE TO SUPPORT FOP IN ADVANCING THE SUBORBITAL AND ORBITAL MARKET.