NASA Industry Day – CEV Propulsion Advanced Development Procurements (Briefing charts)
Advanced Development to reduce development risk of CEV Service Module Propulsion System
- ESAS defined Lox/Methane baseline for Service Module
- Long Term tie to Mars exploration
- Early flight experience in ISS mission builds confidence for further Exploration goals to Moon and Mars
Government led conduct of analysis, design, build, and test to address propulsion system and component risks between now and CEV PDR
- Prime Contractor participates integrally once selected
- Subsystem PDR is a combination of Government and Prime Deliverables
- Prepare prime contractor for successful design, development and certification through risk retirement
- Prepare Government for Insight / Oversight and Support
- Estimated final RFP release date: Oct 26, 2005
- Estimated proposal receipt date: Nov 30, 2005
- Estimated contract selection date: Dec 22, 2005
- Estimated contract award date: Dec 23, 2005
