SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PHOENIX - Special Notice
- Notice Date
- 10/20/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- SN-12-06
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2011
- Point of Contact
- DARPA-BAA-12-02@darpa.mil,
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-BAA-12-02@darpa.mil
(DARPA-BAA-12-02@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SN-12-06 Industry Day Announcement The goal of the Phoenix program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in GEO and demonstrate the ability to create new space systems at greatly reduced cost. Phoenix will demonstrate around-the-clock, globally persistent communications capability to US warfighters more economically, by robotically removing and re-using GEO-based space apertures and antennas from de-commissioned satellites in the graveyard or disposal orbit. Phoenix will prove the technical capability to re-use a non-operational but functional aperture on a cooperating retired GEO satellite. To achieve this goal, the Phoenix program envisions developing a new class of small "satlets", or nano satellites, which can be sent to the GEO-region more economically as a "ride along" on a commercial satellite launch, and then robotically attached to the antenna of a non-functional cooperating satellite, essentially creating a new space system leveraging the System F6 architecture. A payload orbital delivery system, or PODS, will also be designed to safely house the Satlets for transport aboard a commercial satellite launch. A separate on-orbit "tender," or satellite servicing satellite is also expected to be built and launched into GEO. Once the tender arrives on orbit, the PODS would then be released from its ride-along host and link up with the tender to become part of the satellite servicing station's "tool belt." The tender plans to be equipped with grasping mechanical arms for removing the satlets and components from the PODs using unique space tools to be developed in the program.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN02610345-W 20111022/111020234315-b892ec6281c164fe5ff873fe335c904c (fbodaily.com)
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