NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771

18 -- QUICK RIDE" OPPORTUNITIES SOUGHT ON COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SPACE PLATFORMS DUE 032698 POC Sharon M. Collignon, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-9874, Fax (301)286-0237, Email Sharon.M.Collignon.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#Quick-Ride-1. E-MAIL: Sharon M. Collignon, Sharon.M.Collignon.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS ONLY. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is seeking sources capable of providing excess payload capacity available on commercial space missions to carry earth science, space science and technology instrumentation. The purpose of this notice is to gather information from industry related to the commercial availability of resources, which may be offered to carry payloads. GSFC is considering the technical feasibility, cost, schedule, and contract implications for using excess resources on existing systems to carry science and technology payloads. GSFC welcomes any information submitted by interested parties in response to this request. Specifically, please respond to the following: 1. What are the existing capabilities of your commercial spacecraft? Include information describing the planned orbit(s), planned platform lifetime, excess payload mass, power and volume availability, launch vehicle type(s) and uplink/downlink rates available to payloads? Other technical parameters, which would be helpful, are descriptions of pointing knowledge, stability, available data storage, payload fields of view available for both science and thermal rejection, as well as any known interface parameters. 2. What is the development status of the commercial system? 3. What is the flight history of the commercial system? 4. How many platforms of this type do you intend to launch and what is the planned schedule? 5. What is the expected price you might charge for this service? 6. What integration and schedule profile would be expected for and available to "Quick Ride" payloads? 7. Discuss any flight constraints, which might be imposed, on potential payloads. 8. What sort of warranty or guarantee to service might you offer? 9. Do you have a set of standard terms and conditions, which might cover contracts for secondary payloads? If so, please provide us with a copy. 10. Identify a technical point of contact including name, position, telephone and FAX numbers, US Postal and email addresses. 11. Provide any other information you feel might be helpful in this endeavor. NASA GSFC plans to release a Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) for Quick Ride on about April 8, 1998 with an anticipated due date for comments on or about April 15, 1998. We anticipate releasing the final RFP on or about April 29, 1998. The DRFP and final RFP will be available over the Internet. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for solicitation release. Interested parties shall submit their information by March 26, 1998 to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Attn: Sharon Collignon, code 214.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771. For further information, please contact Ms. Sharon Collignon 301-286-9874 or email Sharon.M.Collignon.1@gsfc.nasa.gov (e:mail is preferred). Information submitted separate and apart from commercial brochures will be treated as proprietary, if so marked. (0076)

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