NASA seeks industry input on LEO commercial satellite concepts and utilization

WASHINGTON - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program is seeking information from industry for two areas associated with NASAs development of future Commercial LEO destinations. NASA is asking for the industry's overall concepts of LEO operations and the utilization needs they will have. The agency notes that these pair of areas are considered mutually exclusive and companies can respond to one or both areas.

In a multiphase strategy, the CLDP is helping to spur the development of new low-Earth orbit space destinations and supporting systems (which includes the end-to-end services such as the in-orbit destination, visiting vehicles, and supporting launch vehicles and ground systems) from private industry.

NASA's request for information (RFI) aims to maintain open communications with the private sector that could aid in the development and demonstration of safe, reliable, innovative, and cost-effective space destination capabilities.

It is part of a NASA’s strategic and comprehensive approach that includes identifying long-term needs for services in low-Earth orbit and overall concept of operations as the agency prepares to become a customer in a commercial marketplace.

NASA has provided a response form to be submitted that delineates how your response should be provided. If additional documentation is necessary to support your response form submittal, you are allowed to submit additional documentation as no more than 20 single-sided pages via Microsoft Word or PDF. Both the response form and additional documentation should be submitted together via email to both [email protected] and [email protected] with the subject line: “RFI Feedback on CLD Con Ops– INSERT COMPANY NAME”, no later than 30 March 2023 at 5 p.m. Eastern. For more information and to access the documents needed, please visit https://sam.gov/opp/33aeaf2871124821a7788acb038d602f/view.