Carbon-Phenolic For Nasa Re-Entry Heatshields Tender - 23132636

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Country: USA

Summary: Carbon-Phenolic For Nasa Re-Entry Heatshields

Deadline: 25 May 2018

Posting Date: 09 May 2018

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 23132636

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

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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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). These heat shields consisted of a tape wrapped carbon phenolic (twcp) frustum and a chop molded carbon phenolic (cmcp) spherical nose. Twcp has uses beyond nasa thermal protection system (tps) requirements, such as in rocket nozzles; however, cmcp is essentially a nasa-unique cp material that has very few other applications. It has been more than 30 years since nasa has flown a mission requiring cmcp tps materials and therefore industry s capability to support cmcp fabrication now and in the future is unclear.
The nasa ames research center (arc) seeks to mature 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 1.5-meter diameter sphere-cone geometries. The purpose of this request for information (rfi) is to gather information on carbon phenolic tps material technologies, including material properties, current manufacturing base, current flight applications, spacecraft integration techniques, and efforts required to fabricate large, single-piece 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.
In a series of white papers ("white paper to the nrc decadal survey outer planets sub-panel", "white paper to the nrc decadal survey sub-panels mars and outer planet satellites", and "white paper to the nrc decadal survey inner planets sub-panel") the tps community has proposed that a prime candidate for the...

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