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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| BRADFORD SPACE AND ECAPS PROPOSES DEVELOPING AND TESTING A LOW COST VERSION OF THE ECAPS 22N HIGH PERFORMANCE GREEN PROPULSION (HPGP ) THRUSTER, THE 22N GP, WHICH IS HIGHLY SUITABLE FOR SMALL SPACECRAFT PLANETARY MISSIONS AND COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMEN | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $52,500 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jan 11, 2021 | Jan 11, 2021 | Sep 1, 2023 | ||
| RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAPPER INSTRUMENT | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $250,000 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | AJ44 | Sep 30, 2020 | Sep 30, 2020 | Sep 30, 2022 | ||
| GOALS WE PROPOSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTROKIT.ORG, AN ONLINE PRESENCE THAT PROVIDES SERVICES FOR BROWSING ASTEROID DATA AND TOOLS THAT SUPPORT ANALYSIS OF ASTEROID ASTROMETRY, PHOTOMETRY, AND SPECTROSCOPY. ASTROKIT WILL BE A SET OF FREE SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT EMPOWER CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO EXPLORE ASTEROIDS AND USE SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND THEM. THE ASTROMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ALLOW USERS TO UPLOAD IMAGES, AUTOMATICALLY LOCATE THEIR POSITION IN THE SKY, AND MARK KNOWN CELESTIAL OBJECTS IN IMAGES WITH CIRCLES AND LABELS. IT WILL IDENTIFY MOVING OBJECTS BY OVERLAYING SEQUENTIAL IMAGES, A TECHNIQUE KNOWN AS STACKING AND BLINKING. THE TOOLKIT WILL INCLUDE BATCH-UPLOAD AND API SUPPORT FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE PHOTOMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT INPUT FROM THE ASTROMETRY PROCESS AND ESTIMATE THE MAGNITUDE OF OBJECTS IN SKY IMAGERY USING REFERENCE STARS FROM STANDARD CATALOGS. IT WILL SUPPORT BATCH-UPLOAD AND AN API FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE LIGHT CURVE TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT PHOTOMETRIC VALUES AND DISPLAY INTERACTIVE LIGHT CURVES BASED ON THIS DATA. USERS WILL BE ABLE TO ADJUST THE INPUTS AND TUNE THEIR DERIVED LIGHT CURVES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE SPIN PERIOD OF AN ASTEROID. THE SITE WILL MAKE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD THE ASTROMETRIC, PHOTOMETRIC, AND LIGHT CURVE DATA, AS WELL AS A GRAPH OF OUTPUT. ASTROKIT WILL PROVIDE A VISUAL INTERFACE FOR PAST RESULTS THAT HAVE BEEN MARKED PUBLIC BY USERS, ALONGSIDE OFFICIAL DATA FROM NASA JPL AND THE MINOR PLANET CENTER WITH A FOCUS ON NEAR EARTH OBJECTS (NEOS) AND POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS (PHAS). USERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEARCH AND SELECT SPECIFIC ASTEROIDS FOR REFERENCE, AS WELL AS TEXT-BASED SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKLY PULL INFORMATION FROM A DATABASE OF NEARLY 700,000 ASTEROIDS. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $84,324 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Oct 18, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 | Apr 11, 2018 | ||
| THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PREREQUISITES FOR LARGE-SCALE ECONOMIC USE OF SPACE RESOURCES ARE: IN-SPACE MANUFACTURE OF PROPELLANTS FROM NONTERRESTRIAL BODIES, AND IN-SPACE MANUFACTURE OF HEAT SHIELDS FOR LOW-COST CAPTURE OF MATERIALS INTO EARTH ORBIT. THE FORMER HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF RECENT NIAC INVESTIGATIONS. THE LATTER WOULD EXPAND BY A FACTOR OF 30 TO 100 TIME THE NUMBER OF ASTEROIDS FROM WHICH RESOURCES COULD BE RETURNED COST-EFFECTIVELY TO EARTH ORBIT. WITH VASTLY LARGER POPULATIONS FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE, RETURN OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE MUCH MORE FREQUENT AND TARGETS CAN BE SELECTED WHERE OPERATIONS WOULD BE HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, NOT MERELY SUFFICIENT. THE FEEDSTOCKS FOR MANUFACTURE OF LIFE-SUPPORT MATERIALS AND PROPELLANTS ARE FOUND ON C-TYPE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS, WHICH HAVE HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF HYDROGEN, CARBON, NITROGEN, OXYGEN AND SULFUR. THE TOTAL ABUNDANCE OF READILY EXTRACTABLE (HCNOS) VOLATILES IN THE CI CHONDRITIC METEORITE PARENT BODIES (C ASTEROIDS) IS ROUGHLY 40% OF THE TOTAL METEORITE MASS. FURTHER, THE RESIDUE FROM EXTRACTION OF VOLATILES INCLUDES A MIX OF METALLIC IRON (10% OF TOTAL MASS), IRON OXIDE AND IRON SULPHIDES (20% AS FE) PLUS 1% NI AND ~0.1% CO. WE PROPOSE TO USE MICROWAVE HEATING TO 1) EXPEDITE SELECTIVE RELEASE OF H2O VAPOR FROM HEATED C ASTEROID SOLIDS, AND 2) SINTER HIGHLY OUTGASSED REFRACTORY ASTEROIDAL MATERIAL TO MAKE HEAT SHIELDS FOR AEROCAPTURE AT EARTH RETURN. WE WILL STUDY BOTH PROCESSES EXPERIMENTALLY USING C-TYPE ASTEROID SIMULANT MADE BY DEEP SPACE INDUSTRIES UNDER CONTRACT WITH NASA, AND STUDY THE LOGISTICS OF RETRIEVAL OF ASTEROID MATERIALS TO EARTH ORBIT USING THESE AEROBRAKES. THE RESULT WILL BE A UNIQUELY PROPELLANT-RICH DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION ARCHITECTURE WITH FASTER TIMETABLES ENABLED BY THE GREATER ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MARGINS ALLOWED BY ABUNDANT PROPELLANT. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $83,320 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Oct 18, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 | Feb 8, 2018 | ||
| THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PREREQUISITES FOR LARGE-SCALE ECONOMIC USE OF SPACE RESOURCES ARE: IN-SPACE MANUFACTURE OF PROPELLANTS FROM NONTERRESTRIAL BODIES, AND IN-SPACE MANUFACTURE OF HEAT SHIELDS FOR LOW-COST CAPTURE OF MATERIALS INTO EARTH ORBIT. THE FORMER HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF RECENT NIAC INVESTIGATIONS. THE LATTER WOULD EXPAND BY A FACTOR OF 30 TO 100 TIME THE NUMBER OF ASTEROIDS FROM WHICH RESOURCES COULD BE RETURNED COST-EFFECTIVELY TO EARTH ORBIT. WITH VASTLY LARGER POPULATIONS FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE, RETURN OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE MUCH MORE FREQUENT AND TARGETS CAN BE SELECTED WHERE OPERATIONS WOULD BE HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, NOT MERELY SUFFICIENT. THE FEEDSTOCKS FOR MANUFACTURE OF LIFE-SUPPORT MATERIALS AND PROPELLANTS ARE FOUND ON C-TYPE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS, WHICH HAVE HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF HYDROGEN, CARBON, NITROGEN, OXYGEN AND SULFUR. THE TOTAL ABUNDANCE OF READILY EXTRACTABLE (HCNOS) VOLATILES IN THE CI CHONDRITIC METEORITE PARENT BODIES (C ASTEROIDS) IS ROUGHLY 40% OF THE TOTAL METEORITE MASS. FURTHER, THE RESIDUE FROM EXTRACTION OF VOLATILES INCLUDES A MIX OF METALLIC IRON (10% OF TOTAL MASS), IRON OXIDE AND IRON SULPHIDES (20% AS FE) PLUS 1% NI AND ~0.1% CO. WE PROPOSE TO USE MICROWAVE HEATING TO 1) EXPEDITE SELECTIVE RELEASE OF H2O VAPOR FROM HEATED C ASTEROID SOLIDS, AND 2) SINTER HIGHLY OUTGASSED REFRACTORY ASTEROIDAL MATERIAL TO MAKE HEAT SHIELDS FOR AEROCAPTURE AT EARTH RETURN. WE WILL STUDY BOTH PROCESSES EXPERIMENTALLY USING C-TYPE ASTEROID SIMULANT MADE BY DEEP SPACE INDUSTRIES UNDER CONTRACT WITH NASA, AND STUDY THE LOGISTICS OF RETRIEVAL OF ASTEROID MATERIALS TO EARTH ORBIT USING THESE AEROBRAKES. THE RESULT WILL BE A UNIQUELY PROPELLANT-RICH DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION ARCHITECTURE WITH FASTER TIMETABLES ENABLED BY THE GREATER ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MARGINS ALLOWED BY ABUNDANT PROPELLANT. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $41,660 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Apr 26, 2017 | May 9, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF SBIR PHASE II CMM MODEL AWARD (INTERNAL USE ONLY) | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $748,891 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jun 13, 2016 | Jun 13, 2016 | Jun 22, 2018 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF RESEARCH BY DEEP SPACE INDUSTRIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA LAST YEAR DISCOVERED AN INTRIGUING PROPERTY OF THE CARBONACEOUS ASTEROID SIMULANTS BEING DEVELOPED. WE NOTICED THAT SIMPLY WETTING THE MATERIAL, MIXING IT THOROUGHLY, AND DRYING IT (IN VACUUM OR AIR) AT AMBIENT TEMPERATURE CAUSES IT TO BOND INTO SOLID, VERY HARD ROCK, AND WE COULD CONTROL THE HARDNESS BY THE AMOUNT OF WATER MIXED INTO IT BEFORE DRYING. ON EARTH WHEN MAKING BRICKS FROM CLAY WE NEED TO FIRE THEM IN A KILN AT TEMPERATURES AS HIGH AS 1300 C TO MAKE THEM HARD. APPARENTLY SIMPLE AIR OR VACUUM DRYING OF THESE MINERALS CAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THE KILN EFFECTIVELY, MAKING IT EASILY HARD ENOUGH FOR CONSTRUCTION IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT. CARBONACEOUS ASTEROIDS ARE NOT THE ONLY PLACE IN SPACE WHERE CLAYEY REGOLITH CAN BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION. RECENTLY, SCIENTISTS HAVE SHOWN THAT MARS HAS ABUNDANT CLAY DEPOSITS ALL OVER THE GLOBE. THE MINERALS ON PHOBOS APPEAR SIMILAR TO THOSE IN A CERTAIN TYPE OF CARBONACEOUS ASTEROID INCLUDING PHYLLOSILICATES (THE TYPE OF MINERALS THAT INCLUDE CLAYS), SO APPARENTLY PHOBOS MAY HAVE ABUNDANT CLAY MINERALS, TOO. THIS SUGGESTS CONSTRUCTION BY LOW-TEMPERATURE VACUUM DRYING IS POSSIBLE ON THOSE BODIES. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE ON THE MOON, HOWEVER, AS THERE ARE NO PHYLLOSILICATES ON THE MOON. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $121,784 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | May 31, 2016 | Jun 10, 2016 | Dec 9, 2016 | ||
| WE PROPOSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTROKIT.ORG, AN ONLINE PRESENCE THAT PROVIDES SERVICES FOR BROWSING ASTEROID DATA AND TOOLS THAT SUPPORT ANALYSIS OF ASTEROID ASTROMETRY, PHOTOMETRY, AND SPECTROSCOPY. ASTROKIT WILL BE A SET OF FREE SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT EMPOWER CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO EXPLORE ASTEROIDS AND USE SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND THEM. THE ASTROMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ALLOW USERS TO UPLOAD IMAGES, AUTOMATICALLY LOCATE THEIR POSITION IN THE SKY, AND MARK KNOWN CELESTIAL OBJECTS IN IMAGES WITH CIRCLES AND LABELS. IT WILL IDENTIFY MOVING OBJECTS BY OVERLAYING SEQUENTIAL IMAGES, A TECHNIQUE KNOWN AS STACKING AND BLINKING. THE TOOLKIT WILL INCLUDE BATCH-UPLOAD AND API SUPPORT FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE PHOTOMETRY TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT INPUT FROM THE ASTROMETRY PROCESS AND ESTIMATE THE MAGNITUDE OF OBJECTS IN SKY IMAGERY USING REFERENCE STARS FROM STANDARD CATALOGS. IT WILL SUPPORT BATCH-UPLOAD AND AN API FOR LARGE GROUPS OF IMAGES. THE LIGHT CURVE TOOLKIT WILL ACCEPT PHOTOMETRIC VALUES AND DISPLAY INTERACTIVE LIGHT CURVES BASED ON THIS DATA. USERS WILL BE ABLE TO ADJUST THE INPUTS AND TUNE THEIR DERIVED LIGHT CURVES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE SPIN PERIOD OF AN ASTEROID. THE SITE WILL MAKE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD THE ASTROMETRIC, PHOTOMETRIC, AND LIGHT CURVE DATA, AS WELL AS A GRAPH OF OUTPUT. ASTROKIT WILL PROVIDE A VISUAL INTERFACE FOR PAST RESULTS THAT HAVE BEEN MARKED PUBLIC BY USERS, ALONGSIDE OFFICIAL DATA FROM NASA JPL AND THE MINOR PLANET CENTER WITH A FOCUS ON NEAR EARTH OBJECTS (NEOS) AND POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS (PHAS). USERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEARCH AND SELECT SPECIFIC ASTEROIDS FOR REFERENCE, AS WELL AS TEXT-BASED SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKLY PULL INFORMATION FROM A DATABASE OF NEARLY 700,000 ASTEROIDS. METHODOLOGY THE PLATFORM WILL RELY PRIMARILY ON BROWSER TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS WEBGL, WITH ALL USER ACTIONS SUPPORTED BY JAVASCRIPT ON AN HTML5/ CSS BASE. THE APPLICATIONS WILL BE RESPONSIVE, SUPPORTING MOBILE WEB ACCESS OR EVEN REPACKAGING AS WEB-VIEW MOBILE APPS IN IOS AND ANDROID APP STORES. ASTROKIT WILL RELY HEAVILY ON OPEN SOURCE IN ITS CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING, USING POPULAR LIBRARIES SUCH AS JQUERY, THREE.JS, AND KINETICJS. ITS SERVER WILL BE WRITTEN IN NODE.JS, BACKED BY A POSTGRESQL DATABASE. THE IMAGE PROCESSING ANALYSIS TOOLS WILL RELY ON FAST GEOMETRIC HASHING FOR ASTROMETRY AND POPULAR IMAGE DIFFING ALGORITHMS FOR STACKING AND BLINKING. RELEVANCE TO CADET AND NASA OUR TEAM HAS EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE ASTRONOMY WEBSITES VISITED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTEROID-RELATED TOOLS FOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS. PROVIDING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND EASY-TO-USE ASTEROID DATA AND ANALYSIS TOOLS INCREASES THE VISIBILITY AND REACH OF NASA AND ITS ASTEROID GRAND CHALLENGE EFFORTS. THE CAPABILITIES WE DEVELOP FOR ASTROKIT ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE SIMILAR IMPACT AS OUR PREVIOUS PROJECTS, NOT ONLY AS A RESOURCE FOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, BUT ALSO FOR THE MEDIA AND GENERAL PUBLIC AS A RESOURCE FOR SCIENTIFIC DATA ON ASTEROIDS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL ASTEROID ANALYSIS TOOLKIT WILL ENCOURAGE CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS TO PUT THEIR DATA ONLINE AND SHARE IT EASILY WITH OTHERS IN THE FIELD. MODERN WEB-BASED ASTRONOMY TOOLS THAT APPLY BEST DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES ARE RARE. ASTROKIT.ORG WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE THE AVAILABILITY AND EASE OF ANALYSIS RELATED TO ASTEROID OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $144,310 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Apr 28, 2016 | Apr 12, 2016 | Apr 11, 2018 | ||
| MANY DEEP-SPACE, MISSIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT RETURN MATERIAL OR CREWS TO NEAR-EARTH SPACE, ARE SEVERELY LIMITED BY THE NEED TO CARRY PROPELLANTS AND HEAT SHIELDS TO ACHIEVE THEIR MISSION GOALS. LIFTING THESE ASSETS FROM THE SURFACE OF EARTH, LANDING THEM ON THE TARGET BODY, LAUNCHING THEM FROM THERE INTO AN EARTH-INTERCEPT TRAJECTORY, AND CAPTURING THEM INTO EARTH ORBIT REQUIRES EARTH LAUNCH OF MASSES OF PROPELLANT THAT INCREASE EXPONENTIALLY WITH THE MISSION'S TOTAL DELTA V REQUIREMENT. PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF THE LOGISTICS OF GATHERING MATERIAL FROM THE MOON AND SELECTED NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS (NEAS) HAVE DEMONSTRATED VERY LARGE ENHANCEMENTS OF MASS-RETRIEVAL CAPABILITIES USING PROPELLANTS DERIVED FROM SOURCES IN SPACE RATHER THAN PROPELLANTS LAUNCHED FROM EARTH AND CARRIED THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THEY ALSO HAVE CLEARLY SHOWN THE ENORMOUS ADVANTAGES INHERENT IN DERIVING PROPELLANTS FROM NEAS. THIS STUDY EXAMINES WATER-BASED PROPULSION USING NEA VOLATILES TO MANUFACTURE STORABLE CHEMICAL PROPELLANTS. THE PROBLEM OF STORABLE PROPELLANTS ON EARTH HAS BEEN SOLVED BY THE USE OF HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVES AS FUEL AND N2O4 AS OXIDIZER, BOTH MADE POSSIBLE BY EARTH'S NITROGEN-RICH ATMOSPHERE. NITROGEN IS SCARCE ON ASTEROIDS, AND WOULD BE BEST DEVOTED TO CREATING FIRE-RETARDANT ATMOSPHERES FOR CREWS. THERE ARE PLAUSIBLE PATHS KNOWN FOR MAKING ASTEROID-DERIVED CARBON-BASED STORABLE FUELS, BUT THE PROVENANCE OF A SUITABLE STORABLE OXIDIZING AGENT THAT DOES NOT EMPLOY NITROGEN IS AN UNSOLVED AND DIFFICULT PROBLEM. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $99,736 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Jun 22, 2015 | Jun 4, 2015 | Mar 3, 2016 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF WE WILL DESIGN, PROTOTYPE, AND TEST A VARIETY OF ASTEROID SIMULANTS NEEDED TO VALIDATE MOST ASPECTS OF ASTEROID ISRU PROCESSES. THESE INCLUDE PHYSICAL SIMULANTS FOR EXCAVATION, TRANSFER, AND PREPARATION (INCLUDING COMMINUTION); CHEMICAL/MINERALOGICAL/VOLATILE SIMULANTS FOR PROCESSING TESTS SUCH AS VOLATILES EXTRACTION, METALS EXTRACTION, AND OXYGEN PRODUCTION; AND SIMULANTS TO EVALUATE SCIENTIFIC AND COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTATION. THE NEED FOR TASK-SPECIFIC ASTEROID SIMULANTS IS ILLUSTRATED BY THE HISTORY OF ILL-DESIGNED AND ILL-APPLIED LUNAR SIMULANTS, AND CURRENT PRACTICES FOR ASTEROID SIMULANTS, WHICH ARE MARKED BY AD-HOC IMPROVISATION THAT FREQUENTLY RESULTS IN AN INABILITY TO COMPARE RESULTS AMONG EXPERIMENTS OR RELIABLY REPEAT EXPERIMENTS FOR CONFIRMATION. | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $124,508 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jun 12, 2015 | Jun 17, 2015 | Dec 17, 2015 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION STUDY FOR POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECONDARY PAYLOADS THE STUDY WILL EXAMINE ALL PHASES OF THE ASTEROID INITIATIVE FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO INTRODUCE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES AND GOALS, AND THE WAYS THAT NASA CAN SUPPORT OR CONTRIBUTE TO THEM. INDUSTRY WILL BE ABLE TO DELIVER MAXIMUM SUPPORT FOR THE CREWED MISSION ONLY IF THE CAPTURED ASTEROID REPRESENTS A TRULY VALUABLE RESOURCE TO BE DEVELOPED. ENSURING THAT IT HAS SUBSTANTIAL COMMERCIAL VALUE HAS TO START VERY EARLY, IN THE PROSPECTING PHASE. THIS STUDY WILL DOCUMENT THE DECISIONS AND ACTIONS THAT HAVE THE BEST PROBABILITY OF SELECTING THE MOST LUCRATIVE TARGET. SAP PURCHASE REQUISITION: 4200520492 | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $49,790 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AJ91 | Jul 14, 2014 | Jul 15, 2014 | Apr 15, 2015 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION STUDY FOR POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ASTEROID REDIRECT CREWED MISSION (ARCM) THE STUDY WILL EXAMINE ALL PHASES OF THE ASTEROID INITIATIVE FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO INTRODUCE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES AND GOALS, AND THE WAYS THAT NASA CAN SUPPORT OR CONTRIBUTE TO THEM. INDUSTRY WILL BE ABLE TO DELIVER MAXIMUM SUPPORT FOR THE CREWED MISSION ONLY IF THE CAPTURED ASTEROID REPRESENTS A TRULY VALUABLE RESOURCE TO BE DEVELOPED. ENSURING THAT IT HAS SUBSTANTIAL COMMERCIAL VALUE HAS TO START VERY EARLY, IN THE PROSPECTING PHASE. THIS STUDY WILL DOCUMENT THE DECISIONS AND ACTIONS THAT HAVE THE BEST PROBABILITY OF SELECTING THE MOST LUCRATIVE TARGET. THE FINAL PHASE TO BE ANALYZED IN THE STUDY IS THE ACTUAL CREWED VISIT TO THE RETURNED ASTEROID MATERIAL. THE STUDY WILL EXAMINE SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR INDUSTRY S ROLE ACROSS THESE PHASES, AND THE IMPACT EACH WILL HAVE ON THE AMOUNT OF NO-COST SUPPORT THAT WOULD BE SUPPLIED TO NASA. SAP PURCHASE REQUISITION: 4200519890 | BRADFORD SPACE, INC. | $49,812 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AJ91 | Jul 14, 2014 | Jul 15, 2014 | Jan 15, 2015 |