Sources Sought Notice RPOCVI

Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture

(RPOC) VI

This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) outlines the requirements to provide engineering support services (research, analysis, design, development, integration, verification, test, evaluation, and operations support) supporting Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C), system engineering, and Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Capture (RPOC) activities. The Contractor shall provide engineering support in projects and technical areas, including but not limited to those below in support of the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) and other NASA centers: •

Human Spaceflight Support and Related Exploration Initiatives

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Technology Development, Support, and Research

The scope of these tasks encompasses the program architecture definition, analysis and development, as well as the entire spacecraft definition and development process, including requirements development, concept development, technology development, system design, system and vehicle evaluation, system and vehicle test, verification, integration, and operations support. Examples of tasks to support these systems include but are not limited to: the development of analysis tools, including modeling of space vehicles, vehicle subsystems, dynamics, and environment in a high-fidelity simulation environment, and development of tools to support command and monitoring analysis including high fidelity graphics and user interfaces. The structure of the SOW should not be construed as defining a required organizational configuration. Specific tasks will be authorized on task orders. NASA will provide computational resources for vehicle software assessments and other software required for the effort onsite at NASA, and/or virtually, through a network server account. Contractor personnel may be required to travel to participate in major reviews and technical interchange meetings for many of these tasks. This travel may be both domestic and international. Details of expected travel will be provided in task orders.

HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT SUPPORT AND RELATED EXPLORATION INITIATIVES

LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SUSTAINING SUPPORT

The Contractor shall support NASA’s efforts in GN&C areas related to flight readiness certification and real-time mission evaluation of International Space Station (ISS) Visiting Vehicles, U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs), and CLD Visiting Vehicles (VV). Analysis of the visiting vehicles, destinations, trajectories, and operations