Carbon-Carbon For Nasa Re-Entry Heatshields Tender in USA - 23132643

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Carbon-Carbon For Nasa Re-Entry Heatshields

Deadline: 25 May 2018

Posting Date: 09 May 2018

Other Information

Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 23132643

Document Ref. No.: 80ARC018-RFI-CC

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

CPV Classification

09330000 - Solar energy
45321000 - Thermal insulation work

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Tender Details

Amendment one:
the requested due date for submittal of capabilities for this rfi is extended to the date and time indicated in the synopsis.
General information:
to date, nasa has utilized carbon phenolic (cp) heatshields for its most demanding reentry missions, pioneer venus (pv) and galileo (mission to jupiter). It has been more than 30 years since nasa has flown a mission requiring cp tps materials, and therefore industry s capability to support cp fabrication for nasa re-entry vehicles now and in the future is unclear.
In an effort to find alternatives to heritage reentry materials and/or systems, the nasa ames research center (arc) is seeking information on current industrial capabilities to provide thermal protection system (tps) technologies for highly reliable robotic probe missions for solar system sample returns to earth. Multiple tps concepts are being investigated for approximately 1.0- to 2.0-meter diameter sphere-cone geometries. The purpose of this request for information (rfi) is to gather information on carbon-carbon (c-c) tps material technologies, including material properties, current manufacturing base, current flight applications, spacecraft integration techniques, and efforts required to fabricate large heat shields. Because of the high reliability requirements of this mission class, information is also sought on manufacturing process control maturity and techniques, as-built heat shield inspection techniques, and historical qualification test history.
The intent of this rfi is to obtain data from industry in order for nasa to assess and prepare a manufacturing and maturation plan to mature c-c for nasa re-entry probes to a technology readiness level (trl) 6 in time to support several proposed missions.
For high-reliability missions, nasa seeks to manufacture heat shields made of a c-c composite. This rfi describes the requirements in support of the initial planning phase of a c-c heat shield development for fut...

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