SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Moon-to-Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology (MMPACT)
- Notice Date
- 8/19/2020 12:09:02 PM
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER HUNTSVILLE AL 35812 USA
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- 80MSFC20R0
- Response Due
- 8/26/2020 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 08/26/2020
- Point of Contact
- Nichole Crayton, Phone: 2565441662
- E-Mail Address
-
nichole.t.fraser@nasa.gov
(nichole.t.fraser@nasa.gov)
- Description
- The MMPACT project will focus on the utilization of lunar in-situ materials for the manufacturing construction of large-scale infrastructure elements like habitats, berms, landing pads, blast shields, walkways, floors, storage facilities, and roads using one or both of two techniques. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center intends to award a sole source contract with Dr. Holly Shulman. The Contractor will provide Lunar Simulant Characterization for thermal, physical, electrical, magnetic and dielectric procedures. The Contractor will also provide Lunar Mineral Equivalent Manufacture and Characterization to select, manufacture and characterize lunar mineral equivalents. Lastly, the Contractor will provide Regolith fabrication process and protocol development and microwave lunar regolith simulant container design and fabrication. Set up Microwave Equipment and Fabricate Test Modules for Sintering. This set up can be used to develop microwave sintering/melting protocols, test horn designs, obtain data on energy consumption at a realistic scale and supply data for modeling and validate models Determine Relationship between Microwave Heating in Vacuum and at Atmospheric Pressure in Argon. This task will provide a correlation factor to enable the use of atmospheric pressure studies of microwave heating and power usage for predictive modeling in a thermal vacuum. � Determine Ration of Electric Filed to Magnetic Field Heating of Lunar Regolith Simulants. This information will assist in building a predictive microwave heating model and determining significance of Fe levels for large scare microwave sintering studies. � Perform Microwave Studies to Determine Range of Heating Behavior for Simulants and Representative Minerals/Glasses. This task will inform the variability expected based on composition, particle size, particle shape, and pack density to feed into the model and system design.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Belmont, NY 14813, USA
- Zip Code: 14813
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 14813
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