SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Structural, Power and Data Port (SPDP) - DARPA-PS-17-03
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2017
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- 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, 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-2114, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22203-2114
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-PS-17-03
- Archive Date
- 7/8/2017
- Point of Contact
- Chris Glista,
- E-Mail Address
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DARPA-PS-17-03@darpa.mil
(DARPA-PS-17-03@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-PS-17-03 Appendix 2 DARPA-PS-17-03 Appendix 1 DARPA-PS-17-03 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program within the Tactical Technology Office (TTO). The DARPA-PS-16-01 solicitation, released on May 18th, 2016, had solicited Other Transaction (OT) proposals for a U.S. space industry builder-owner-operator commercial team that will partner with DARPA to jointly develop and demonstrate a prototype robotic servicing vehicle (RSV) for servicing in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO). The commercial Partner team will develop and manufacture a bus capable of integration with a Government-provided robotic payload for GEO servicing. The objective of the RSGS program (also herein referred to as the GEO Robotics program) is to create a dexterous robotic operational capability in GEO to enable persistent robotic servicing capabilities, with the goal of achieving an enduring, reliable, cost effective GEO satellite servicing presence. The robotic payload is currently being developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) under the sponsorship of DARPA. The RSGS robotic payload program is in need of a space-rated Structural, Power and Data Port (SPDP or Port). The primary functions of the SPDP are to provide the launch restraint for a Tool, the repeated on-orbit restraint and release of a Separable Item, and an electrical pass-through to a Separable Item. The SPDP is comprised of the Active Unit and the Passive Unit. The Active Unit is permanently attached to the RSV payload deck. The Passive Unit is permanently attached to a Separable Item. A Separable Item is any component, such as a Tool, which is mated and demated from the payload while on-orbit. A Tool is a robotic end-effector. Because the RSV will launch with multiple Separable Items, a quantity of Flight SPDPs will be required for this single prototype mission. This SPDP effort will be conducted under the authority of 10 U.S. Code 2371b. DARPA expects the successful proposer to have the ability to manufacture a quantity of GEO-qualified SPDPs for direct integration onto the NRL-provided robotic payload. The SPDP shall be qualified for spacecraft missions at or near the GEO altitude belt. In the future, it is DARPA's vision that the SPDP could also be included when new GEO satellite systems are manufactured. The SPDP electrical system could be wired into the satellite's power and data systems. This would allow post-launch, on-orbit addition of new systems to the satellite. This futuristic vision is unlikely to be attempted until the RSGS robotic system is tested on-orbit in the early 2020s. See the attached DARPA-PS-17-03 for full details.
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