AMENDMENT 2: The purpose of this amendment is to post responses to questions and answers 2.
AMENDMENT 1: The purpose of this amendment is to post responses to questions and answers 1. As a result of this amendment the RFI will be extended to May 17, 2023 at 4PM EST and questions are extended to May 11, 2023 at 4PM EST.
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SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE.
This notice is issued by the NASA/GSFC to post a Statement of Work to solicit
responses from interested parties. This document is for information and planning
purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to verify reasonableness and
feasibility of the requirement, as well as promote competition.
The Navigation and Mission Design Branch (NMDB) and the Attitude Control Systems
Engineering Branch (ACSEB) within the Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis
(MESA) Division at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) are responsible for providing
analytic and operational expertise for orbit and attitude systems, dynamics modeling,
control analyses, and estimation and simulation of space vehicles. The branches create
and maintain state-of-the-art analysis tools for mission design, trajectory optimization,
orbit analysis, navigation, attitude determination, and controls analysis. The NMDB also
provides the expertise to support a wide range of flight dynamics services, such as
spacecraft mission design, on-orbit sensor calibration, launch support, and orbit
operations (ground and flight). An active technology development program is maintained,
with special emphasis on developing new techniques and algorithms for autonomous
orbit/attitude systems and advanced approaches for trajectory design. Specific areas of
expertise resident in the branches include but are not limited to:
• Trajectory analysis and control design
• Flight dynamics operations
• Mission design
• Orbit estimation techniques
• Constellation analysis
• Flight dynamics model development
• Flight dynamics ground and flight system development
• Ground attitude determination
• Spacecraft conjunction assessment and risk analysis
This presolicitation synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the
Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submitted in response.
The Government may not respond to questions/concerns submitted. The Government
will use the information to finalize the RFP as necessary.
All comments or questions shall be submitted electronically via email to Jonnelle
Goff, Jonnelle.C.Goff@nasa.gov, no later than May 1, 2023, by 3pm EST. When
responding reference FDSSIV23JG.
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this acquisition can be found at:
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