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MIDEX Cryocooler Design and Implementation POD

Solicitation ID MIDEX_Cryocooler_Design_and_Implementation_POD
Posted Date 17 Dec 2020 at 5 PM
Archive Date 21 Jan 2021 at 5 AM
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Contracting Office Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Agency National Aeronautics And Space Administration
Location Greenbelt Maryland United states 20771

This proposal opportunity is in response to the NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO), Astrophysics MIDEX, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2020[LH(1] .  The partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner to design and implement a Cryocooler for an instrument. 

The proposed mission is currently in pre-Phase A.  This phase ends with a Step 1 proposal that will be due 3 months after the AO is released.  If the proposal is selected for implementation, the mission will proceed into Phase A, per NPR 7120.5E. The following schedule should be used as a basis for responses to this opportunity:

Release of draft AO                                        Winter 2020 (target)[LH(2] 

Release of final AO                                        Fall 2021 (target)

Pre-proposal conference                                 ~ 3 weeks after final AO release

Step 1 Proposals due                                      90 days after AO release

Selection for competitive Phase A studies     Fall 2022 (target)

CSRs due                                                        Spring 2023 (target)

Down-selection                                               Fall 2023 (target)

Spacecraft start date                                       Vendor specified

Instrument Delivery for I&T                              36 months after start of Phase B (10/2026)

Launch (NLT 10/31/2028)                              TBD, soonest opportunity after I&T complete          

           

Additional details and information can be found in the attachment to this posting.

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